The Openness-Rights Trade-off in Labour Migration, Claims to Membership, and Justice

This paper looks at a recent challenge to the liberal inclusivist view that everyone on the state's territory should have a path to citizenship. Economists have argued that giving immigrants an inferior legal status would persuade wealthy countries to admit more, with beneficial consequences fo...

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Published in:Ethical theory and moral practice
Main Author: Bertram, Christopher 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2019]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
RelBib Classification:NCC Social ethics
NCD Political ethics
VA Philosophy
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Economics
B Justice
B Migration
B Citizenship
B Responsibility
B Rights
B Distributive Justice
B Global Justice
B Democracy
B Labour migration
B Membership
B Temporary labour migration
B Equality
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Summary:This paper looks at a recent challenge to the liberal inclusivist view that everyone on the state's territory should have a path to citizenship. Economists have argued that giving immigrants an inferior legal status would persuade wealthy countries to admit more, with beneficial consequences for global justice. Whilst this trade-off might seem appealing from the impersonal perspective of the policymaker it generates incoherence from the perpective of the collective of democratic citizens, since it requires them to treat their own unjust attitudes as an objective constraint. The paper also rejects the idea that a voluntary choice to migrate can be taken as consent to an inferior status.
ISSN:1572-8447
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9968-5