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- Title
Immigration, Global Poverty and the Right to Stay.
- Authors
Oberman, Kieran
- Abstract
This article questions the use of immigration as a tool to counter global poverty. It argues that poor people have a human right to stay in their home state, which entitles them to receive development assistance without the necessity of migrating abroad. The article thus rejects a popular view in the philosophical literature on immigration which holds that rich states are free to choose between assisting poor people in their home states and admitting them as immigrants when fulfilling duties to assist the global poor. Since the human right to stay is entailed by values that feature prominently in the philosophical debate on immigration, the article further contends that participants in that debate have particular reason to reject the popular 'choice view' and endorse the alternative position presented in the article.
- Subjects
EMIGRATION &; immigration; POVERTY; FREEDOM of movement; IMMIGRATION law; POOR people; HUMAN rights
- Publication
Political Studies, 2011, Vol 59, Issue 2, p253
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00889.x