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Unjust Borders
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This book explores how individuals should respond to the injustice of immigration restrictions. Hidalgo focuses on unauthorized migrants and draws on empirical evidence from the social sciences to argue that conventional wisdom about the individual ethics of immigration is wrong.
States restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorise border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centres, 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 unauthorised 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.
Series: Political Philosophy for the Real World
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781138503120
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 20 November 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 570g
Pages: 214
About the Author
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.
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