Overview
- Treats fundamental philosophical issues and specific policy questions, and the relations among them
- Timely political issues discussed with philosophical clarity and the benefit of most up-to-date scholarship
- Discusses specific conceptions of the meaning of citizenship in relation to a democratic polity
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 6)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Citizenship and Equal Rights
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Moral Frameworks for Immigration Issues
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Immigration and the Ethics of Exclusion
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Keywords
- Immigration and Citizenship
- Cosmopolitan Citizenship
- Kant’s republicanism
- John Locke on Naturalizaiton
- Membership and Community in the State of Nature
- Equal Citizenship and Religious Liberty
- Enfranchising part time residents and non-citizens
- Immigration Law
- Ethnic Selection
- Restricting Immigration Fairly
- Asylum and Refugee Policy
- Domestic Violence
- Refuge for All
About this book
This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in relation to the global context of multiple nation states. In it, philosophers and scholars from the social sciences address both fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy as well as specific issues concerning policy. Topics covered in this volume include: the concept and the role of citizenship, the equal rights and representation of citizens, general moral frameworks for addressing immigration issues, the duty to obey immigration law, the use of ethnic, cultural, or linguistic criteria for selective immigration, domestic violence as grounds for political asylum, and our duty to refugees in general.
The urgency of the need to discuss these matters is clear. Several humanitarian crises involving human migration across national boundaries stemming from war, economic devastations, gang violence, and violence in ethnic or religious conflictshave unfolded. Political debates concerning immigration and immigrant communities are continuing in many countries, especially during election years. While there have always been migrating human beings, they raise distinctive issues in the modern era because of the political context under which the migrations take place, namely, that of a system of sovereign nation states with rights to control their borders and determine their memberships. This collection provides readers the opportunity to parse these complex issues with the help of diverse philosophical, moral, and political perspectives.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ann E. Cudd is Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. She works primarily in social and political philosophy and philosophy of economics. She is the author of Analyzing Oppression (Oxford 2006) and co-author with Nancy Holmstrom of Capitalism: For and Against, A Feminist Debate (Cambridge 2011). Her most recent publication is “Inequality in Higher Education,” in The Equal Society, edited by George Hull.
Win-Chiat Lee is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wake Forest University. His published work is mostly on legal and political philosophy, including global justice and the philosophy of international criminal law. His most recent article, “The Judgeship of All Citizens: Dworkin’s Protestantism about Law,” appears in Law and Philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age
Editors: Ann E. Cudd, Win-chiat Lee
Series Title: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32786-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32785-3Published: 18 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81369-1Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32786-0Published: 10 August 2016
Series ISSN: 1873-877X
Series E-ISSN: 2351-9851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 239
Topics: Philosophy of Law, Public International Law , Political Theory, Political Philosophy