Exit and the duty to admit

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12866807
AutoresP T Lenard (0000-0002-5521-1396, University of Ottawa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas25975-25975
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthics & Global Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1654-6369 • E-ISSN: 1654-4951
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3402/egp.v8.25975
OpenAlexW1868880542
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

Conventionally, it is presumed that while citizens have the right to exit the state in which they are located, no particular state (except a citizen's home state) is required to admit them. Yet, this convention has produced, and continues to produce, injustice; to understand why, I focus on defining and protecting a right to exit, as distinct from the right to move in general. This analysis leads me to propose that whereas the political theoretic literature appears to have converged on a commitment to decisive asymmetry (in favor of accepting a state's right to exclude), I propose that only a weak asymmetry is justified. I argue that receiving states are duty-bound to act in ways that enable migrants to exercise their right to exit. In particular, I argue that receiving states have a perfect duty to collectivize the process by which needy migrants can exercise the right to exit

Convention · Duty · Focus (optics · Injustice · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty