1st Edition

Justice for Denizens

Edited By Johan Olsthoorn Copyright 2026
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

The legal rights of a person within a state depend in part on their migration status. Many states across the world deny non-citizen residents or ‘denizens’ certain political, socio-economic, and cultural rights granted to every citizen alike. This book tackles pressing moral questions raised by legal rights-differentiation by citizenship status by drawing on the ethics of migration, citizenship,... Read more

Justice for Denizens: A Conceptual Map

Johan Olsthoorn

 

1. Rights Differentiation within the Bounds of Egalitarian Justice

Daniel Sharp

 

2. Can There Be Special Rights for Some Citizens?

Andreas Niederberger

 

3. Denizenship and Democratic Equality

Suzanne Bloks and Daniel Häuser

 

4. Democratic Justice and Status Inequality in Temporary Labor Migration

Mario J. Cunningham Mataros

 

5. Why Voluntariness Cannot Ground Cultural Rights Restrictions for Immigrants

Eszter Kollar and Helder De Schutter

 

6. Group-differentiated Rights for Indigenous Communities that Straddle Borders

Michael Luoma

 

7. The Morality of State Priorities and Refugee Admission

Patti Tamara Lenard

Biography

Johan Olsthoorn is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. He mainly works on past and present theories of justice, rights, and property.