Désirée Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6233790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Désirée Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Désirée |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2278-9295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonising academia: Procedural and substantive epistemic justice
Academic institutions have introduced diversity-related procedures in no small part due to increasing pressure from activist groups like the ‘Decolonise Academia’ movement. However, it is unclear how successful these procedures have been in achieving their purported aims, and more than that, how aligned they are with the goals of said activist movements. In my paper, focusing on the epistemic dimensions of ‘decolonising academia’, I highlight a c…
The Ethics of Defunding the Police
Calls to defund the police gained prominence with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and take various forms. Depending on what will be defunded, the idea has attracted support from different parts of the political spectrum. The politicized nature of the debate often cuts short reflection on how best to assess proposals to defund the police. This article takes up that task. It begins by developing a typology of defund measures: abolitionist cut…
Bordering and status-harms
This paper examines how everyday practices of ‘bordering’, as conceived by Yuval- Davis, Wemyss, and Cassidy (2019) as the ongoing proliferation of border sites where migrants are assessed to be fit for inclusion or exclusion, may violate moral respect by subjecting migrants to a wide array of discriminatory treatment, leading to what I call ‘status-harms’. Section II begins by providing an overview of bordering and the various forms it has taken…
Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policy
Skill-selective immigration policies, through which states favor the admission of highly skilled migrants over low-skilled migrants, are a familiar component of the immigration landscape. Wealthy Western states, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, have explicitly declared their desire to attract the “best and the brightest.” On the other hand, attitudes toward low-skilled migrants could not be more different. They ha…
Colonial injustice and racial exploitation
Low-Skilled Migrants and the Historical Reproduction of Immigration Injustice
Travel bans and Covid-19
In Justice for People on the Move, Gillian Brock helpfully proposes a number of internal and contribution requirements, central to human rights practice, that must constrain states’ exclusion of no
Socially Undocumented, Civically Ostracized, or Both
The indirect gender discrimination of skill-selective immigration policies
The immigrant admission policies of states often demonstrate a strong preference for ‘highly skilled’ migrants, while making it more difficult for ‘low-skilled’ migrants to enter. Although those policies only exclude low-skilled workers on paper, empirical evidence has shown that they may also have a disproportionate impact on the admission of female would-be migrants. In other words, it indirectly discriminates against them. In this paper, I arg…
Migration, Entry Fees, and Stakeholdership
The current European ‘migration crisis’ encompasses increasing rates of migration and the accompanying failure of migrants, including both economic migrants and refugees, to integrate. In this paper, I focus on a normative analysis of the entry fee immigration system, providing both an internal and external critique. In the internal critique, I take for granted that states are best understood as clubs. However, states seem to share greater simila…
Selecting Immigrants by Skill: A Case of Wrongful Discrimination
The indirect gender discrimination of skill-selective immigration policies
The immigrant admission policies of states often demonstrate a strong preference for ‘highly skilled’ migrants, while making it more difficult for ‘low-skilled’ migrants to enter. Although those policies only exclude low-skilled workers on paper, empirical evidence has shown that they may also have a disproportionate impact on the admission of female would-be migrants. In other words, it indirectly discriminates against them. In this paper, I arg…
Travel bans and Covid-19
In Justice for People on the Move, Gillian Brock helpfully proposes a number of internal and contribution requirements, central to human rights practice, that must constrain states’ exclusion of no
Selecting Immigrants by Skill: A Case of Wrongful Discrimination
The indirect gender discrimination of skill-selective immigration policies
The immigrant admission policies of states often demonstrate a strong preference for ‘highly skilled’ migrants, while making it more difficult for ‘low-skilled’ migrants to enter. Although those policies only exclude low-skilled workers on paper, empirical evidence has shown that they may also have a disproportionate impact on the admission of female would-be migrants. In other words, it indirectly discriminates against them. In this paper, I arg…
Migration, Entry Fees, and Stakeholdership
The current European ‘migration crisis’ encompasses increasing rates of migration and the accompanying failure of migrants, including both economic migrants and refugees, to integrate. In this paper, I focus on a normative analysis of the entry fee immigration system, providing both an internal and external critique. In the internal critique, I take for granted that states are best understood as clubs. However, states seem to share greater simila…
Socially Undocumented, Civically Ostracized, or Both
Low-Skilled Migrants and the Historical Reproduction of Immigration Injustice
Travel bans and Covid-19
In Justice for People on the Move, Gillian Brock helpfully proposes a number of internal and contribution requirements, central to human rights practice, that must constrain states’ exclusion of no
Colonial injustice and racial exploitation
Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policy
Skill-selective immigration policies, through which states favor the admission of highly skilled migrants over low-skilled migrants, are a familiar component of the immigration landscape. Wealthy Western states, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, have explicitly declared their desire to attract the “best and the brightest.” On the other hand, attitudes toward low-skilled migrants could not be more different. They ha…
Bordering and status-harms
This paper examines how everyday practices of ‘bordering’, as conceived by Yuval- Davis, Wemyss, and Cassidy (2019) as the ongoing proliferation of border sites where migrants are assessed to be fit for inclusion or exclusion, may violate moral respect by subjecting migrants to a wide array of discriminatory treatment, leading to what I call ‘status-harms’. Section II begins by providing an overview of bordering and the various forms it has taken…
Decolonising academia: Procedural and substantive epistemic justice
Academic institutions have introduced diversity-related procedures in no small part due to increasing pressure from activist groups like the ‘Decolonise Academia’ movement. However, it is unclear how successful these procedures have been in achieving their purported aims, and more than that, how aligned they are with the goals of said activist movements. In my paper, focusing on the epistemic dimensions of ‘decolonising academia’, I highlight a c…
The Ethics of Defunding the Police
Calls to defund the police gained prominence with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and take various forms. Depending on what will be defunded, the idea has attracted support from different parts of the political spectrum. The politicized nature of the debate often cuts short reflection on how best to assess proposals to defund the police. This article takes up that task. It begins by developing a typology of defund measures: abolitionist cut…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Injustice (3 works)