Abstract
The immigration debate in political theory has produced a series of accounts that justify the state’s right to exclude potential immigrants, where the right of self-determination figures prominently. We challenge two prominent accounts of the self-determination-based right to exclude and defend a circumscribed right to exclude and a corollary duty to admit immigrants, based on our ‘people relationship goods’ account of self-determination. Our conception reconciles the moral claims of global opportunity migrants with the well-being and non-alienation interests of the locals. It therefore provides a principled answer to the philosophical question underlying pressing political conflicts today, namely what is the permissible scope of exclusion by self-determining political communities, in light of weighty global moral demands of inclusion.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 483-511 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Journal of Moral Philosophy |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 5-6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© ESZTER KOLLAR AND AyELET BANAi, 2023.
Keywords
- global equality of opportunity
- non-alienation
- people relationship goods
- right to exclude
- self-determination
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy