New Challenges in Immigration Theory
As far as immigration theory is concerned, the attempt to reconcile concern for all persons with the reality of state boundaries and exclusionary policies has proved difficult within the limits of normative liberal political philosophy. However, the realpolitik of migration in todays environment forces a major paradigm shift. We must move beyond standard debates between those who argue for more open borders and those who argue for more closed borders. This book aims to show that a realistic utopia of political theory of immigration is possible, but argues that to do so we must focus on expanding the boundaries of what are familiar normative positions in political theory. Theorists must better inform themselves of the concrete challenges facing migration policies: statelessness, brain drain, migrant rights, asylum policies, migrant detention practices, climate refugees, etc. We must ask: what is the best we can and ought to wish for in the face of these difficult migration challenges.
Blake, Carens, and Cole offer pieces that outline the major normative questions in the political theory of immigration. The positions these scholars outline are challenged by the pieces contributed by Lister, Ottonelli, Torresi, Sager, and Silverman. These latter pieces force the reformulation of the central positions in normative political theory of immigration.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Crispino E.G. Akakpo is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium, where he works on political philosophy and the philosophy of law. He aims to develop criteria for just migration policies by exploring the tension between moral universalism and state-based exclusion.
Patti T. Lenard is Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her first book, Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (2012), focused on the challenges posed by diversity, largely caused by immigration, in domestic states. Her current research focuses on the normative questions that arise as people cross borders, and the reasons that states provide to justify admitting and excluding migrants.
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Contents
Crispino E.G. Akakpo and Patti T. Lenard
Phillip Cole
Michael Blake
Joseph H. Carens
Alex Sager
Valeria Ottonelli and Tiziana Torresi
Stephanie J. Silverman
Matthew Lister
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
New challenges in immigration theory: an overview
Crispino E.G. Akakpo and Patti T. Lenard
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 493502
Chapter 2
Beyond reason: the philosophy and politics of immigration
Phillip Cole
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 503520
Chapter 3
The right to exclude
Michael Blake
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 521537
Chapter 4
An overview of the ethics of immigration
Joseph H. Carens
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 538559
Chapter 5
Reframing the brain drain
Alex Sager
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 560579
Chapter 6
Temporary migration projects and voting rights
Valeria Ottonelli and Tiziana Torresi
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 580599
Chapter 7
Detaining immigrants and asylum seekers: a normative introduction
Stephanie J. Silverman
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 600617
Chapter 8
Climate change refugees
Matthew Lister
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, volume 17, issue 5 (JulyDecember 2014) pp. 618634
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Crispino E.G. Akakpo is a DBOF Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is examining the tension between moral universalism and state-based exclusion in order to develop the normative grounds for a just migration policy. His research interests (in political philosophy and philosophy of law) include Immigration, Justice, Liberty, Sovereignty, Democracy, Constitutionalism, Natural Law, and Principles of Legality.
Michael Blake is Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He works on international justice and on the morality of immigration. He is currently finishing a book on the ethics of the brain drain, written as a debate with Gillian Brock.
