Immigration & Discrimination: (un)welcoming others
If a state may choose who enters, may it choose on any basis at all? A philosopher tests whether sovereignty really settles the question in advance.
Can the concept of wrongful discrimination be applied to immigration decisions, or does national autonomy settle the question before it starts? Akhtar argues that states which routinely select on nationality, wealth and skill are making distinctions that would be indefensible domestically, and that the usual appeal to sovereignty does less work than its defenders assume.
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Tyler Cowen
Can the idea of wrongful discrimination be applied to immigration decisions? Maybe you believe this is a pure and simple matter of national autonomy, but what if the potential immigrants are from a former and wronged colony? From an island nation perishing due to climate change?
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