Justice and Authority in Immigration Law.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Four Predicaments -- II. Justifying Immigration Policies: Rawls, Kant, and Smith -- III. Some Parameters and Stipulations -- Part I: Preliminaries -- 1. Justice, Authority, and Immigration -- I. Introduction -- II. Justice and Authority -- 1. Justice -- 2. Authority -- III. The Universality of Justice -- 1. An Absolutist Objection -- 2. Smith's Theory of Moral Judgement -- 3. Judgements about Justice -- 4. Why Social Justice is not a Special Relationship -- IV. Justice and Authority in Immigration Governance -- 1. The Problem of Justice in Immigration Governance -- 2. The Problem of Authority in Immigration Governance -- V. Moving on -- 2. Inegalitarianism in Immigration Governance -- I. Introduction -- II. Some Considered Judgements of Injustice in Immigration -- III. Discretionary Doctrines -- IV. Inegalitarianism in Immigration Law -- V. Inegalitarianism: Four Examples -- 1. Economic Migration and Guestworker Programmes -- 2. Family Migration -- 3. Refugees -- 4. Illegal Immigration -- VI. Moving on -- Part II: The Authority of Immigration Regimes -- 3. The Rightful Governance of Immigration -- I. Introduction -- II. The Argument for the Postulate of Public Right -- III. The Moral Standing of States and Required Forms of Partiality -- 1. Juridical Integration and the Moral Standing of States -- 2. Partiality Among Members -- IV. The Duty to Govern Immigration Rightfully -- 1. The Juridical Nature of Migration -- 2. The Function of Immigration Regimes -- V. Immigration Regimes as Status Regimes -- 1. Status in the Governance of Immigration -- 2. Justifying Immigration Status -- 3. Status and Discretion in Immigration Governance -- VI. Moving on -- 4. Two Absolutisms -- I. Introduction -- II. An Absolutist Schematic.

III. Communitarian Absolutism -- 1. Complex Equality -- 2. Complex Equality and Immigration Governance -- 3. Domination at the Border -- 4. Thin Morality at the Border -- IV. Liberal Pessimism -- 1. Immigration and Egalitarian Justice -- 2. Pessimism about Legitimacy -- 3. Hope -- V. Moving on -- 5. The Authority of Immigration Law -- I. Introduction -- II. Consent -- III. Fairness -- IV. The Natural Duty of Justice as a Principle of Political Obligation -- V. How Just Immigration Regimes Can Have Authority -- 1. Reasonable Deviations from Justice -- 2. Reasonableness and Obligation -- 3. Reasonableness in the Circumstances of Immigration -- VI. Moving on -- Part III: Justice in Immigration Governance -- 6. The Indirect Principle of Freedom of Migration -- I. Introduction -- II. Two Frameworks -- III. The Value of Freedom of Movement -- 1. The Capabilities and Our Considered Judgements -- 2. 'An Evident Violation of Natural Liberty and Justice' -- IV. The Global Distributive Justice Alternative -- V. The Indirect Principle -- 1. The Indirect Principle -- 2. The Relevance of the Indirect Principle -- 3. The Critical Force of the Indirect Principle -- VI. Moving on -- 7. Priority of Admission for the Worst-off Migrants -- I. Introduction -- II. Contextualism and Universalism -- III. A Contextualist Universalist Method -- IV. A Constructivist Approach to Immigration -- V. Free and Equal Migrants -- VI. A Basic Liberty -- VII. A Non-lexical Liberty -- VIII. Prioritizing the Worst off -- IX. Principles for the Just Governance of Immigration -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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