Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude?

by Phillip Cole and Christopher Heath Wellman

Book Overview

Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to the right to freedom of association, Wellman contends that legitimate states have broad discretion to exclude potential immigrants, even those who desperately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199731721
• ISBN13: 9780199731725
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"