Author : Christopher Heath Wellman
Release : 2011-09-30
Genre : Philosophy
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Debating the Ethics of Immigration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debating the Ethics of Immigration write by Christopher Heath Wellman. This book was released on 2011-09-30. Debating the Ethics of Immigration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to the right to freedom of association, Wellman contends that legitimate states have broad discretion to exclude potential immigrants, even those who desperately seek to enter. Against this, Cole argues that the commitment to the moral equality of all human beings - which legitimate states can be expected to hold - means national borders must be open: equal respect requires equal access, both to territory and membership; and that the idea of open borders is less radical than it seems when we consider how many territorial and community boundaries have this open nature. In addition to engaging with each other's arguments, Wellman and Cole address a range of central questions and prominent positions on this topic. The authors therefore provide a critical overview of the major contributions to the ethics of migration, as well as developing original, provocative positions of their own.