Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude

This book argues that citizens have a moral right to decide by which criteria they grant migrants citizenship. In developing this argument, it critically engages numerous objections, providing the reader with a thorough overview of the debate on the ethics of immigration and exclusion.

Autorentext

Uwe Steinhoff is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On the Ethics of War and Terrorism (2007), The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas (2009), On the Ethics of Torture (2013), Self-Defense, Necessity, and Punishment (Routledge, 2019), and The Ethics of War and the Force of Law: A Modern Just War Theory (Routledge, 2021). He is also the editor of Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth? (2015).

Inhalt

1. Introduction

2. Exclusion and Justification: On Imagined Burdens and Irrelevant Questions

3. "Cantilever Arguments," International Law, and the Protection of Culture: Turning the Tables on Defenders of Open Borders

4. Freedom of Association, Democracy, and the Right to Exclude

5. Enforcement and Resistance at the Border

6. Rehabilitating Allegedly Impermissible or Overblown Reasons for Exclusion: Race, the Cultural Protection of a Free Society, and Crime