Migration and Political Theory (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

1.1 Some facts about migration today

1.2 International migration: some types, drivers and effects

1.3 Is the contemporary state of affairs unique? Some history

1.4 Overview of subsequent chapters

2 The Right to Exclude and Open Borders

2.1 Arguments for states’ rights to exclude

2.2 Arguments for obligations to allow free movement across borders

2.3 Conclusions

3 Forced Migration and Responsibilities: The Case of Refugees

3.1 Who counts as a refugee?

3.2 Current arrangements for assisting refugees

3.3 Duties to refugees

3.4 Some contemporary issues concerning duties to refugees

3.5 Conclusions

4 Which Criteria May States Permissibly Use in Selection and Citizenship Policies?

4.1 Which criteria may states use in their admissions policies?

4.2 Some critical discussion of Carens’s influential account

4.3 Which criteria may permissibly be used in granting citizenship?

4.4 Should citizenship be for sale?

4.5 Conclusions

5 Legal Immigrants and their Host States: Rights and Responsibilities

5.1 Multicultural citizenship: Will Kymlicka and his critics

5.2 Beyond legal citizenship to inclusion

5.3 David Miller on integration

5.4 Conclusions

6 Undocumented Migrants and their Host States: Rights and Responsibilities

6.1 Do undocumented migrants have any rights? Some basic human rights considered

6.2 Rights to remain: considerations in favor of regularization

6.3 Criticisms of regularization

6.4 Conclusions

7 Fair Treatment for Temporary Migrant Workers

7.1 Walzer’s influential argument on guest workers and justice

7.2 Can any temporary migrant worker program ever be justified?

7.3 Conclusions

8 Justice in Out-Migration

8.1 The Siracusa Principles

8.2 The brain drain: why is there a problem?

8.3 Addressing issues of brain drain: responsibilities and policy options

8.4 Can the case of migrating healthcare professionals generalize to other sectors?

8.5 Conclusions

9 Emerging Issues and Future Directions

9.1 Contemporary issues concerning enforcement

9.2 Resistance

9.3 Cities and immigration

9.4 Methodological challenges to contemporary approaches

9.5 How might considering the Covid-19 situation change debates about migration in the future?

9.6 Concluding reflections

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