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Immigration, association, and the family

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posted on 2024-06-13, 10:50 authored by M Lister
In this paper I provide a philosophical analysis of family-based immigration. This type of immigration is of great importance, yet has received relatively little attention from philosophers and others doing normative work on immigration. As family-based immigration poses significant challenges for those seeking a comprehensive normative account of the limits of discretion that states should have in setting their own immigration policies, it is a topic that must be dealt with if we are to have a comprehensive account. In what follows I use the idea of freedom of association to show what is distinctive about family-based immigration and why it ought to have a privileged place in our discussion of the topic. I further show why this style of argument neither allows states to limit nearly all immigration nor requires them to have almost no limits on immigration. I conclude by showing that all states must allow some degree of family-based immigration, and that this is a duty owed not to ‘outsiders’ seeking to enter, but rather to current citizens.

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Journal

Law and Philosophy

Volume

29

Pagination

717-745

Location

Netherlands

ISSN

0167-5249

eISSN

1573-0522

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

Springer 2010

Issue

6

Publisher

Springer Verlag

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