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Research Collection School of Social Sciences

2012

Immigration

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The Heart Of The Immigration Debate, David Chan May 2012

The Heart Of The Immigration Debate, David Chan

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Why Open Borders, Chandran Kukathas Jan 2012

Why Open Borders, Chandran Kukathas

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The present contribution offers a defence of open borders. It presents a critique of the idea that the state has a justified claim to regulate themovement of people because they reflect the collective endeavours of the members of the state to pursue a shared project of self-rule or self-determination. Itargues that this view rests on an indefensible understanding of the nature of thestate, which should be viewed less as a collective endeavour than as a productof conflicts among political elites. There is a strong prima facie case for freemovement that suggests there should be a presumption in favour of open …