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Irregular Migration, Historical Injustice and the Right to Exclude

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2022

Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi*
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LSE
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l.l.ypi@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper makes the case for amnesty of irregular migrants by reflecting on the conditions under which a wrong that is done in the past can be considered superseded. It explores the relation between historical injustice and irregular migration and suggests that we should hold states to the same stringent standards of compliance with just norms that they apply to the assessment of the moral conduct of individual migrants. It concludes that those standards ought to orient migrants and citizens’ moral assessment of how their states handle questions of irregular migration and to inform political initiatives compatible with these moral assessments.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 91: A Philosophers' Manifesto: Ideas and Arguments to Change the World , May 2022 , pp. 169 - 183
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2022

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