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Necessity Knows No Borders: The Right of Necessity and Illegalized MigrationIn Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson, Pamela Slotte & Heikki Haara (eds.), Rights at the margins: historical, legal and philosophical perspectives, Brill. 2020.In this paper, I argue that taking basic human rights seriously—and the basic right to subsistence in particular—requires acknowledging that, given certain conditions, people in need have a right of necessity to take, use and/or occupy the property of others in order to get out of their plight. I explore the implications of this for the phenomenon of illegalized migration for subsistence reasons, and suggest that receiving countries ought not to deny entry to these migrants. On the contrary, tho…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |