Debating the ethics of immigration : is there a right to exclude? /
Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to the rig...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Debating ethics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to the right to freedom of association, Wellman contends that legitimate states have broad discretion to exclude potential immigrants, even those who desperately seek to enter. Against this, Cole argues that the commitment to the moral equality of all human beings - which legitimate states can be expected to. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 340 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199813575 0199813574 9780190267490 0190267496 |