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Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude: On the Permissibility and Necessity of Immigration Restrictions book cover

1st Edition

Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude On the Permissibility and Necessity of Immigration Restrictions

By Uwe Steinhoff Copyright 2022
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge
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This book argues that citizens have a moral right to decide by which criteria they grant migrants citizenship, as well as to control access to their territory in the first place. In developing and defending this argument, it critically engages numerous objections, thus providing the reader with a thorough overview of the current debate on the ethics of immigration and exclusion. The author’s... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Exclusion and Justification: On Imagined Burdens and Irrelevant Questions

3. "Cantilever Arguments," International Law, and the Protection of Culture: Turning the Tables on Defenders of Open Borders

4. Freedom of Association, Democracy, and the Right to Exclude

5. Enforcement and Resistance at the Border

6. Rehabilitating Allegedly Impermissible or Overblown Reasons for Exclusion: Race, the Cultural Protection of a Free Society, and Crime

Biography

Uwe Steinhoff is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On the Ethics of War and Terrorism (2007), The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas (2009), On the Ethics of Torture (2013), Self-Defense, Necessity, and Punishment (Routledge, 2019), and The Ethics of War and the Force of Law: A Modern Just War Theory (Routledge, 2021). He is also the editor of Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth? (2015).

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