Outputs (10)

Scotland headed towards "Independence-Lite"? (2014)
Journal Article

The only certainty is that we do not know what the future holds for the UK, except that there will be radical changes in its relationship with Scotland, with unknown consequences for the country’s future.

Beyond reason: The philosophy and politics of immigration (2014)
Journal Article

In this paper, I critically address the role of arbitrary and contingent features in philosophical debates about migration. These features play a central role, and display the importance of unreason in the debate and the limits of rational criticism.... Read More about Beyond reason: The philosophy and politics of immigration.

Taking moral equality seriously: Egalitarianism and immigration controls (2012)
Journal Article

In this paper I re-state the egalitarian argument against the morality of immigration controls: such limits violate the central ethical commitment to moral equality. This means that immigration controls fail a fundamental moral test and represent the... Read More about Taking moral equality seriously: Egalitarianism and immigration controls.

Debating the ethics of immigration: Is there a right to exclude? (2011)
Book

The book has a clear focus on philosophical theory and ethical argument, referring to economic and other evidence for the positions taken where this is helpful, but making it clear that what is ultimately at stake is the morality of border controls.... Read More about Debating the ethics of immigration: Is there a right to exclude?.

The right to leave versus a duty to remain: Health care workers and the 'brain drain' (2010)
Book Chapter

Migration and the human right to health (2009)
Journal Article

In December 2007 it was revealed that the British government is considering the exclusion of certain groups of migrants—those considered to be present “illegally”—from primary health care provided by the National Health Service (NHS). At present, pra... Read More about Migration and the human right to health.

The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment (2007)
Journal Article

© Society for Applied Philosophy, 2007. In her critique of the social model of disability, Lorella Terzi argues that it oversocialises disability, and that some kind of connection must be made between disability and bodily impairment. In this paper I... Read More about The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment.

Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice (2007)
Journal Article

The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is qu... Read More about Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice.

Embracing the "nation" (2000)
Journal Article

The idea of the "nation" has played only a small role in modern political philosophy because of its apparent irrationalism and amoralism. David Miller, however, sets out to show that these charges can be overcome: nationality is a rational element of... Read More about Embracing the "nation".

Social Liberty and the Physically Disabled (1987)
Journal Article

ABSTRACT Liberal political philosophy has little of interest to say about the social liberty of the physically disabled. It accepts that the physically disabled and the able‐bodied are equally at liberty, even though the former can do far less than t... Read More about Social Liberty and the Physically Disabled.