Immigration Enforcement and Domination
An Indirect Argument for Much More Open Borders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Sager (0000-0002-7432-6869, Portland State University, OR, USA, corresponding author), Alex Sager |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-54 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912916680036 |
| OpenAlex | W2552862292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 57 |
Normative reflection on the ethics of migration has tended to remain at the level of abstract principle with limited attention to the practice of immigration administration and enforcement. This paper explores the implications of this practice for an ethics of immigration with particular attention to the problem of bureaucratic domination. I contend that migration administration and enforcement cannot overcome bureaucratic domination because of the inherent vulnerability of migrant populations and the transnational enforcement of border controls by multiple public and private actors. The implication is that even if restrictive immigration policies are permissible in principle, the attempt to enforce them leads to injustices that make them ethically unacceptable in practice
Administration (probate law · Bureaucracy · Enforcement · Immigration · Immigration policy · Law and economics · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration
Power and Powerlessness
Philosophical Foundations for Complementary Protection
The Political Philosophy of Refuge
Global justice, individual autonomy, and migration policy
Evaluating ‘Life Steeped in Power’
Immigration Detention
Relational Equality and Immigration
Immigration enforcement, open borders, and the Chinese Exclusion Cases
The ICE–Lexis nexus
Banal bordering
The ethics of immigration enforcement
Symposium introduction
Big data, surveillance, and migration
From Practice to Policy
Legitimacy at sea. Authority and extraterritorial border controls
Migration, membership, and republican liberty
Action-guiding for whom? Social movements and political theory of migration
Rescue Missions in the Mediterranean and the Legitimacy of the EU’s Border Regime
Neo-Republicanism and the Domination of Immigrants
Reimagining Otherness, Recreating the Public Space
Pop-up Geopolitics
Sanctuary as democratic non-cooperation
Extending freedom of movement across state borders
Immigration enforcement and justifications for causing harm
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence
Security, digital border technologies, and immigration admissions
Migration and the critique of ‘state thought
Multiculturalism beyond citizenship
I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control
Enforcing immigration law
The Case for Permanent Residency for Frontline Workers
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries
For the Benefit of Some
Selling Citizenship
A General Theory of Domination and Justice
Strangers in Our Midst
Debating the Ethics of Immigration
Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics
The Cosmopolites
The Latino Threat
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Illegality, Inc
The Deportation Regime
Suspension of Deportation Hearings and Measures of "Americanness"
Death Rates among Detained Immigrants in the United States
Immigration Detention
Border Regimes and Human Rights
Critical Race Theory in the US Sociology of Immigration
Examining hidden coercion at state borders
Domination and migration
Political rights, republican freedom, and temporary workers
Detaining immigrants and asylum seekers
The problem of denizenship
Dunking the Doughnut
Should Expatriates Vote
A Brief Introduction of the Puzzle of Discretion
Trust, Privilege, and Discretion in the Governance of the US Borderlands with Mexico
Why Immigration Controls Are Not Coercive
Democratic Legitimacy and State Coercion
Riding Routes and Itinerant Borders
The New Jim Crow
The Humanitarian Politics of European Border Policing
The constitution of a European immigration policy domain
Institutionalizing Freedom as Non-Domination
Slavery and Freedom in Theory and Practice
Methodological Nationalism, Migration and Political Theory
Enfranchising All Affected Interests, and Its Alternatives
The ethics of deportation in liberal democratic states
Border security as practice
Redrawing the Line
Security and Immigration
Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration
When the exception becomes the rule
Domination, global harms, and the problem of silent citizenship
Deciding WHO Gets in
The Open Borders Debate on Immigration
The 'external dimension' of EU immigration and asylum policy
Back to Borders
Mobilizing in Borderline Citizenship Regimes
Private Detention and the Immigration Industrial Complex
Respect for outsiders? respect for the law? the moral evaluation of high scale issues by US immigration officers
From political opportunities to niche-openings
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |