The right to migrate: a matter of freedom or justice?
This paper investigates one of the central questions in the ethics of migration: is migration a matter of freedom or justice? The former claims that it is a human right, whereas the latter defends a remedial right to immigrate as a way to meet the requirements of global distributive justice. These a...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Murcia |
| Repositorio: | DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digitum.um.es:10201/155581 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon.537961 http://hdl.handle.net/10201/155581 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Right to Migrate Freedom of Movement Global Justice Open Borders Human Rights Ethics of Migration Derecho a Migrar Libertad de Movimiento Justicia Global Fronteras Abiertas Derechos Humanos Ética de las Migraciones CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología |
| Resumo: | This paper investigates one of the central questions in the ethics of migration: is migration a matter of freedom or justice? The former claims that it is a human right, whereas the latter defends a remedial right to immigrate as a way to meet the requirements of global distributive justice. These arguments seem to enter into an intractable contradiction. On the one hand, if freedom of movement is a human right, it should not be subordinated to the maximization of justice. On the other hand, in a non-ideal world an open-borders policy would be of little help in the assignment of priorities, and its redistributive effects would be suboptimal. The solution, I will argue, lies in a package of global redistributive measures. More open borders now can bring us closer to justice, and only then would immigration make sense as a human right. |
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