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1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration

Edited By Sahar Akhtar Copyright 2025
356 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

356 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

356 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Immigration poses some of the major moral, economic, and political challenges of the twenty-first century. Questions of the state’s responsibilities toward immigrants, open borders, security, coping with the displacement of people caused by climate change and natural disasters, and deciding who has a ‘right to remain’ are but some of the significant issues currently faced by governments,... Read more

Introduction Sahar Akhtar

Part 1: Open Borders or Right to Control: Theoretical Arguments

1. The Ethics of Immigration Michael Huemer

2. Social Democracy’s Tensions with Immigration Jason Brennan

3. A Case for Controlled Borders and Open Doors Sarah Song

4. Free movement: A human right or a citizenship right? Rainer Bauböck

Part 2: Open Borders or Right to Control: Practical Approaches

5. Immigration and Economic Freedom Ilya Somin

6. The Economic Case for Liberalized Immigration Policies Howard Chang

7. Immigration: Some Arguments for Limits Hrishikesh Joshi

Part 3: Culture, Language, and Institutions

8. Migration as a Culture Transplant: Neoclassical and Institutional Channels Garett Jones

9. Language as a Criterion of Immigrant Selection Daniel Weinstock

10. On Migration and Backlash Michael Blake

11. The Nation, The State, and the Foreigner: Rethinking the Place of Nationalism in the Ethics of Immigration Lior Erez

Part 4: Immigration and Discrimination

12. Excluding by Race, Ethnicity and Religion Sahar Akhtar

13. Nationality and Immigration Restrictions Rufaida Al Hashmi

14. Immigration and Social Identity Formation Amy Reed-Sandoval

15. The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies Désirée Lim

Part 5: Entry, Exit, and Exploitation

16. Citizenship Tests Thom Brooks

17. Temporary Migration and Worker Exploitation Michael Kates

18. Treating People as Resources: Emigration and the Brain Drain Bas van der Vossen

Part 6: Climate, Refugees, and Protection

19. Climate Migrants Are Not Refugees Max Cherem

20. Immigration and Climate Change Dan Shahar

21. Refugees and the Politics of (In)Humanitarianism David Owen

Part 7: Immigration Enforcement

22. Shining a Light in the Dark: The Urgency of Addressing Immigration Detention in Normative Political Theory Felix Bender and Stephanie Silverman

23. Immigration Enforcement Alex Sager

24. The Economics and Ethics of U.S. Internal Immigration Enforcement Madeline Zavodny and George W. Rainbolt

25. Children, Families, and Immigration Enforcement Matthew Lister.

Index

Biography

Sahar Akhtar is faculty at Georgetown University, USA, and writes and teaches at the intersection of philosophy and economics. Among other works on immigration, she is the author of Immigration and Discrimination: (Un)Welcoming Others (2024).

'The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration, edited by Sahar Akhtar, is the best collection on its topic.' - Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution

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