CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Yuksekdag, Yusuf |
|---|---|
| Title | Justice in Migration: A Moral Cosmopolitan Framework |
| Summary | This study is devoted to the ways and means to justify a more moral cosmopolitan realization of certain policy implications, in the case of immigration. The contemporary debate over open borders does not have determinate conclusions since it does not deal with the duty-bearer perspective of justice. On the other hand most of the liberal cosmopolitan accounts neglect the detrimental consequences of their open borders argument – which take it as a means to compensate people in need – such as brain drain and the effects of brain drain on the opportunities of the members of sending countries. Therefore I offer a comprehensive moral cosmopolitan account of immigration which takes the interests of would be immigrants, residents in receiving, along with residents in sending countries. Considering the morally arbitrary border control, and inequality of opportunities that stem from it, I offer an account in which I develop the global equality of opportunity principle to derive duties of justice in migration. In the end, in the light of recent cultural plurality objections to the principle, I suggest the 'Weak Moral Cosmopolitan Premise' that: “institutions regulating migration in general ought to provide decent opportunities to all individuals.” I claim that border control should be encapsulated under this premise. |
| Supervisor | Miklosi, Zoltan |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/yuksekdag_yusuf.pdf |
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