Unjust Borders

Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-09431-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g

Reihe: Political Philosophy for the Real World

States restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorize border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centers, and deport large numbers of foreigners. Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration argues that immigration restrictions are systematically unjust and examines how individual actors should respond to this injustice. Javier Hidalgo maintains that individuals can rightfully resist immigration restrictions and often have strong moral reasons to subvert these laws. This book makes the case that unauthorized migrants can permissibly evade, deceive, and use defensive force against immigration agents, that smugglers can aid migrants in crossing borders, and that citizens should disobey laws that compel them to harm immigrants. Unjust Borders is a meditation on how individuals should act in the midst of pervasive injustice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hidalgo, Javier S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Case Against Exclusion

2. Challenges to Freedom of Movement

3. Actual Immigration Restrictions Are Unjust

4. Are More Open Borders Feasible? Does It Matter?

5. Resistance at the Border

6. People Smuggling

7. Complicity and the Duty to Resist

8. Promoting More Open Borders

Über Autor(innen)

Javier Hidalgo is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. His work has appeared in venues such as The Journal of Political Philosophy, The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy and The Journal of Moral Philosophy.