Immigration and Democracy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197614396
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 236x157x17 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English 130
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Short description:
How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue? Sarah Song offers a political theory of immigration that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. What is required, she argues, is not a policy of open or closed borders but open doors.
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How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue? Sarah Song offers a political theory of immigration that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants.
Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy of state power, and the boundaries of membership and justice. How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue?
Some contend that borders should generally be open and people should be free to migrate in search of better lives. Others insist that governments have the right to unilaterally close their borders and should do so. In Immigration and Democracy, Sarah Song develops an intermediate ethical position that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. She argues that political membership is morally significant, even if morally arbitrary. Political membership grounds particular rights and obligations, and a government may show some partiality toward the interests of its members. Yet, we also have universal obligations to those outside our orders. Where prospective migrants have urgent reasons to move, as in the case of refugees, their interests may trump the less weighty interests of members. What is required is not open or closed borders but open doors.
An accessible ethical framework that clarifies and deepens the ideas with which members of democratic societies can debate immigration, Immigration and Democracy considers the implications of a realistically utopian theory for immigration law and policy.
I cannot do justice here to the nuance and sophistication of Song's arguments, which provide a sorely needed philosophical framework for thinking (rather than tweeting) through current debates over immigration policy.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I. The Grounds and Limits of Government Power over Immigration
2. Looking to Law: The Plenary Power Doctrine in U.S. Immigration Jurisprudence
3. Philosophical Justifications of the State's Right to Control Immigration
4. Collective Self-Determination and Immigration Control
Part II. Why Not Open Borders
5. Does Justice Require Open Borders?
6. Is There a Right to Free Movement across Borders?
Part III. Implications
7. Refugees and Other Necessitous Migrants
8. The Claims of Family
9. Discretionary Admissions
10. The Rights of Noncitizens in the Territory
11. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
