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Borders and MigrationIn Ásta Sveinsdóttir & Kim Q. Hall (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy, . 2021.Feminist philosophical approaches to migration justice typically employ nonideal methodologies and relational normative frameworks to theorize the complex relationships among intersecting social identities, structural injustice, and global migration. This chapter discusses three such feminist approaches. The first investigates the connections between structural injustice and migration policy, focusing on immigrant admissions and refugee determination. The second explores the feminization of labo…Read more
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34Does Brock’s theory of migration justice adequately account for climate refugees?Ethics and Global Politics 14 (2): 75-85. 2021.In Justice for People on the Move, Gillian Brock develops a promising, original account of migration justice. In her view, states have a robust (though conditional) right to self-determination, which includes a reasonably strong right to regulate migration. However, in order for these rights to be justified, three legitimacy requirements must be met. Most obviously, states must respect the human rights of their own citizens and the international state system itself must be legitimate. This l…Read more
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27Moral Discourse and Social Responsibility: Comments on Machan's Critique of JaggarJournal of Social Philosophy 29 (3): 142-152. 1998.
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10Toward a Nonideal Approach to Immigration JusticeIn David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 185-197. 2018.Critics of so-called ideal theory argue that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles were constructed under idealized assumptions and thus are ill suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically, they raise three related objections: ideal theory cannot help us understand current injustices in the actual, nonideal world, ideal principles are not sufficiently action-guiding, and ideal theory tends to reflect and perpetuate unjust group privilege. This chapter…Read more
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14Avner de-Shalit, Cities and Immigration: Political and Moral Dilemmas in the New Era of Migration (review)Ethics 130 (3): 446-450. 2020.
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1Who Pays for Gender De-Institutionalization?In Ana Marta Gonzalez (ed.), Gender Identities in a Globalized World, Humanity Books. pp. 53-74. 2008.This chapter employs an intersectional, transnational feminist lens to examine the uneven impacts of paid domestic labor. I argue that the practice contributes to the exploitation of domestic workers by employers, migrants by US citizens, and ultimately, the global South by the global North. I recommend several policy reforms to remedy these injustices.
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133Feminist Perspectives on GlobalizationThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2018.In its broadest sense, globalization refers to the economic, social, cultural, and political processes of integration that result from the expansion of transnational economic production, migration, communications, and technologies. This article outlines the ways in which predominantly Western feminist philosophers have articulated and addressed the challenges associated with its economic and political dimensions.
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6Immigration and BordersIn Andrew Fiala (ed.), Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. 2015.The ethics of immigration has emerged as a topic of considerable interest among political philosophers. The subject includes normative questions related to various dimensions of global migration, including territorial admissions, admission to citizenship, and the rights and duties of noncitizen residents. The central issue in these debates is whether liberal democratic states have a moral right to restrict immigration. On one side of the issue, philosophers argue that states have a moral righ…Read more
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4Toward a Nonideal Approach to Immigration JusticeIn David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 185-97. 2018.Critics of ideal theory typically argue that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles were constructed under idealized assumptions and are thus ill suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically, they raise three related objections: (1) ideal theory cannot help us understand current injustices in the actual, nonideal world; (2) ideal principles are not sufficiently action-guiding; and (3) ideal theory tends to reflect and perpetuate unjust group privilege.…Read more
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2How Can Sanctuary Policies be Justified?Public Affairs Quarterly 33 (2): 89-113. 2019.Over the past decade, the increased involvement of local police in facilitating the deportation of undocumented migrants has played a central role in creating a record-breaking volume of deportations from the United States. In response to this so-called deportation crisis, nearly 600 localities have enacted sanctuary policies that limit their cooperation with federal authorities on immigration matters. This paper explores three moral justifications for sanctuary policies: the public safety, ci…Read more
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42Do Duties to Outsiders Entail Open Borders? A Reply to WellmanPhilosophical Studies 169 (1): 123-132. 2014.Wellman argues that legitimate states have a presumptive right to close their borders, excluding all prospective immigrants. He maintains that this right is not outweighed by egalitarian considerations because societies can fulfill their duties to outsiders by transferring aid instead of opening borders. I argue that societies cannot discharge their egalitarian duties by providing aid in at least two cases: when opening borders is the only way to fulfill these duties, and when transferring aid i…Read more
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449The Open Borders Debate on ImmigrationPhilosophy Compass 4 (5): 813-821. 2009.Global migration raises important ethical issues. One of the most significant is the question of whether liberal democratic societies have strong moral obligations to admit immigrants. Historically, most philosophers have argued that liberal states are morally free to restrict immigration at their discretion, with few exceptions. Recently, however, liberal egalitarians have begun to challenge this conventional view in two lines of argument. The first contends that immigration restrictions are in…Read more
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4American Neo-Nativism and Gendered Immigrant ExclusionsIn Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller & Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.), Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.This chapter critiques neonativist ideologies and immigration legislation through the intersecting lenses of gender, ethnicity and race, class, and immigration status. I argue that neonativist immigration legislation is persistently, though covertly, biased again women immigrants, and arguments in defense of such exclusionary legislation rest on insupportable normative assumptions concerning the proper aims of immigration policy and the rights of resident noncitizens.
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24Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi, eds. , 288 pp., $90 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 30 (4): 534-536. 2016.
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66Culture, National Identity, and Admission to CitizenshipSocial Theory and Practice 30 (4): 559-582. 2004.In response to the concern that ethnically diverse immigrants are not being sufficiently integrated into receiving liberal democratic societies, liberal nationalists have offered two specific naturalization policy proposals. The first would require naturalizing immigrants to assimilate the national culture of the receiving society; the second would encourage newcomers to adopt the prevailing civic national identity. This paper rejects these proposals. In contrast to liberal nationalists, I de…Read more
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35Peter W. Higgins, Immigration Justice. Reviewed by Shelley Wilcox (review)Social Theory and Practice 41 (3): 560-566. 2015.
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143Do Duties to Outsiders Entail Open Borders? A Reply to WellmanPhilosophical Studies (1): 1-10. 2012.Wellman argues that legitimate states have a presumptive right to close their borders, excluding all prospective immigrants. He maintains that this right is not outweighed by egalitarian considerations because societies can fulfill their duties to outsiders by transferring aid instead of opening borders. I argue that societies cannot discharge their egalitarian duties by providing aid in at least two cases: when opening borders is the only way to fulfill these duties, and when transferring aid…Read more
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28Review of Sally J. Scholz, Political Solidarity (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (7). 2010.
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44Rian Voet, Feminism and Citizenship:Feminism and Citizenship (review)Ethics 110 (3): 643-645. 2000.
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306Immigrant Admissions and Global Relations of HarmJournal of Social Philosophy 38 (2). 2007.This paper raises two objections to the freedom of movement argument from the perspective of nonideal philosophy: the argument cannot provide a means for establishing admissions priorities when all prospective immigrants cannot be admitted and it ignores alternative grounds for moral claims to admission in the context of histories of injustice. I develop an alternative admissions-guiding principle that assigns strong moral claims to admission to certain prospective immigrants based on a global …Read more
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