UPPORTERS OF OPEN BORDERS sometimes argue that the state has no pro tanto right to
restrict immigration, because such a right would also entail a right to exclude existing …

Citizenship has been treated, since World War II, as a robust political and legal status.
Recent political events have prompted the reassessment of the conditions under which it …

Over the last few years, an increasingly sophisticated literature devoted to normative
questions arising out of the enforcement of immigration law had developed. In this essay, I …

Philosophical discussion about citizenship has traditionally focused on the questions of what
citizenship is, its relationship to civic virtue and political participation, and whether or not it …

The increased efforts of democratic states to enforce immigration control and deportations
have sparked heated public debates about the rights of non-citizen children to be granted …

What legal rights and duties immigrants should have is among the most ferociously debated
topics in the politics of liberal societies today. However, as this article will show, there is …

States combine the routine refusal of citizenship to migrants with policies that grant
newborns of citizens (or residents) full membership of society without questions asked. This …

Should it be permissible for individuals to sell their own citizenship? In brief: no. Against
recent defenses of the idea of private citizenship markets, I argue that these markets cannot …

Many policies egalitarians favor distribute the costs and benefits of children in different ways
between parents and society at large. Two examples include parental leave programmes …

The Danish requirements for citizenship are often grounded on an ideal about rewarding
personal effort and responsibility. A similar ideal is known from luck egalitarianism, a widely …