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Название: Migration and Political Theory

Автор: Gillian Brock

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

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СКАЧАТЬ to celebrate the cultures of their home countries.

      While Kymlicka’s model emphasizes group-differentiated rights, other models, such as those of Joseph Carens, stress many of the informal behaviors, norms, and practices that are central to integration. Mutual adaptation is frequently required between host and immigrant citizens. This chapter also considers the underlying question of how to promote a flourishing democracy in multicultural environments, the role that national identity might play in such projects, and the mechanisms that governments may permissibly use in promoting democratic values.

      Chapter 7 looks at fair treatment in relation to temporary migrants. Much migration is temporary and involves mutually beneficial economic arrangements for sending and destination countries. The scale of such movement is vast and some regions of the world are highly dependent on large temporary workforces. The migrants themselves frequently welcome such opportunities as much-valued employment, especially in home countries with large unemployment problems. Many of these migrants have no desire to settle away from home countries and view these rather as good opportunities to save and remit funds to family.

      Chapter 9 considers where debates in this field are going, identifying some emerging issues and future directions for continuing migration discussions. In addition, this chapter considers important challenges to debates as they have unfolded so far. Core issues tackled include just enforcement methods, permissible forms of resistance to unjust immigration policies, and the role cities should play in immigration matters. I also look at some arguments from the field of critical border studies that challenge dominant assumptions about how to approach migration matters and I discuss the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on migration and political theorizing. Next, I briefly explain some of these topics further.

      Even if immigration policies or laws are normatively justified, there are further questions about what means a government may use to enforce its immigration laws. For instance, may states separate children from their parents at the border if this is an effective way to get migrants to leave or not come in the first place? What criteria should we use in deciding what are the permissible and impermissible ways to enforce immigration policies?

      A second core set of questions involves our responses to unjust immigration policies or laws. We center the analysis around questions such as: Are sanctuary cities to be commended? Is it permissible to resist unjust immigration law? What forms of resistance, if any, might be justified in cases of unjust migration policy? Can people smuggling ever be permissible in response to unjust immigration policies?

      The chapter then proceeds to analyze how the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic might affect political theorizing about migration in the future. The chapter concludes by briefly explaining why the recently adopted UN Global Compacts on migration СКАЧАТЬ