Phil Cole Phil.Cole@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
Taking moral equality seriously: Egalitarianism and immigration controls
Cole, Phillip
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Abstract
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 ethical failure of the liberal project of moral equality. I set this re-statement against recent arguments about what moral equality means, specifically Christopher Heath Wellman's use of Elizabeth Anderson's notion of relational equality. Wellman believes that Anderson's ideas seriously damage the egalitarian argument, but I argue that this is a misreading of her account. I conclude that any liberal attempt to morally justify immigration controls must fail through committing the basic logical error of ‘begging the question’.
Citation
Cole, P. (2012). Taking moral equality seriously: Egalitarianism and immigration controls. Journal of International Political Theory, 8(1-2), 121-134. https://doi.org/10.3366/jipt.2012.0033
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Apr 1, 2012 |
Journal | Journal of International Political Theory |
Print ISSN | 1755-0882 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 1-2 |
Pages | 121-134 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3366/jipt.2012.0033 |
Keywords | cosmopolitanism, egalitarianism, immigration, membership, moral, equality |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/948339 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jipt.2012.0033 |
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