Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

1-2016

Abstract

Advocates of restricted immigration usually make an exception for refugees who are described as having special claims to admission on humanitarian grounds. This chapter raises doubts about the plausibility of the distinction between refugees and economic or other non-humanitarian migrants. It argues that the distinction is difficult to draw conceptually and that the institutions designed to serve the interests of refugees in fact aim to limit their capacity to move despite claims that they are intended to serve refugee interests. The chapter also argues that if we want to serve the interests of those who have claims on our help and hospitality we need to devise very different institutional arrangements.

Keywords

Immigration, Refugee, Hospitality, Humanitarian, Global justice

Discipline

International Relations | Political Theory

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

Migration in political theory: The ethics of movement and membership

Editor

YPI, Lea; FINE, Sarah

First Page

249

Last Page

268

ISBN

9780199676606

Identifier

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199676606.003.0012

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199676606.003.0012

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