Migration and Political Theory. Gillian Brock
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Migration and Political Theory
Gillian Brock
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Copyright © Gillian Brock 2021
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First published in 2021 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3524-8
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Names: Brock, Gillian, author.
Title: Migration and political theory / Gillian Brock.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: And political theory | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A comprehensive overview of how political theorists are grappling with the great issue of our times”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020024387 (print) | LCCN 2020024388 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509535224 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509535231 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509535248 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigration—Political aspects. | Emigration and immigration—Government policy. | Refugees.
Classification: LCC JV6255 .B72 2021 (print) | LCC JV6255 (ebook) | DDC 325--dc23
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Acknowledgments
This book aims to provide a balanced guide through many complex migration issues. While I have been settled in New Zealand for most of my life, I have also undertaken two major transcontinental migrations at earlier stages. These different experiences have helped me appreciate both migrants’ perspectives as well as those of longer settled community members. In this book, I aim to capture at least these two perspectives on many multilayered debates. Many thanks are owed to the students, colleagues, friends, and fellow migrants who have been discussing issues of migration and political theory with me over the years. Special thanks are also owed to Stephen Davies and the team at Polity, especially Julia Davies and George Owers. For excellent comments on a draft of this manuscript, I am grateful to George Owers and four anonymous reviewers for Polity.
1 Introduction
Migration issues dominate contemporary political discourse, and there has been a matching surge in political theorizing about the complex issues that migration raises. President Trump promised to build a wall on the United States’ southern border with Mexico (and to get Mexico to pay for it). He also promised to end the green card lottery, suspend refugee programs, force Dreamers to leave the United States, and deport more of those living illegally in the United States than ever before. The successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union invoked much fear concerning rising numbers of immigrants. Australia, Italy, and Greece vigilantly guard their coasts, intercepting boats aiming to enter their waters. Violent clashes erupt in South Africa when Zimbabweans seeking work appear to threaten local job opportunities. Protecting the homeland from unwelcome foreign immigrants raises deep questions about the nature of who “we” are and what we fear about others. And it also invites us to think about several other topics, including the nature of political community, the defensible scope of self-determination, rightful authority to exclude from a territory, and the standing of borders.
The range of concerns that migration presents for those interested in matters of justice extends well beyond this cluster of issues centered on the state’s authority to exclude. Much migration is appropriately described as forced, as in the case of refugees. What responsibilities do we have to refugees seeking safe haven? And voluntary migration invokes a host of fairness concerns as well. What kinds of criteria may states permissibly use in formulating selection and citizenship policies? May states permissibly use wealth, health status, language proficiency, religion, sexual orientation, or family connections in such decisions? If so, how and when? Are there normative constraints on how destination countries may treat their “guest workers” from other countries and, if so, what are they? Does justice require regularizing the status of those who have been living in the state in ways deemed to be unlawful,