A Philosophical look at immigration and migration

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A Philosophical look at immigration and migration

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Immigration controversies never end. If we’re not worried about Syrian refugees or Mexicans looking for a better life, we’re concerned with Jews escaping genocide or the Irish seeking food. And whatever we do, we always seem to get it wrong. We are blamed for not doing enough, condemned for doing too much, scoffed at for focusing on other people’s problems, instead of own. How do we sort all of this out? How should we treat people who want or need to relocate to our homeland? What are our obligations to migrants and refugees?

Adam Hosein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University. He is the author of The Ethics of Migration, An Introduction.

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Publication Date

1-12-2020

Publisher

Institute for Philosophy in Public Life

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Grand Forks, ND

Keywords

Emigration and immigration--Moral and ethical aspects ; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects ; Emigration and immigration--Government policy ; Immigrants--Government policy--United States

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Philosophy

A Philosophical look at immigration and migration

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