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Originally Posted by Original Position
Congrats dereds! That is very cool. Very relevant topic as well, do you have an idea of what approach you are taking to it?
Thank you, the approach I'm currently discussing with my prospective tutor is to demonstrate that rather than there being a presumption in favour of states being able to exclude non citizens that instead the harm entailed by policing borders and excluding people from opportunities shifts the burden to those that would enforce borders. It's building from a essay by Sarah Fine in a collection of work she edited along with Lea Ypi
Migration in Political Theory
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Originally Posted by well named
I think there's some interesting conversations to be had about the ethics of immigration, but the recently locked thread demonstrates why they are pretty hard to have in a productive way. A lot of my interest also follows from general interest in cultural anthropology. Ethically and politically my views are similar to yours. But I'm not sure how easy it really is to "abolish" ethnic/cultural identities in a way that would make open borders really feasible. I think the book I linked is interesting on that point. Anyway I suppose this is more for the politics forum but I doubt it would work well as a thread there either :P
I think the cultural identities worth preserving would adapt, but one of my arguments is likely to be is that policing borders facilitates the kind of unjust distributions and disregard for global south populations that in fact motivate migration and it is a mistake I think to consider the ethics of borders in a vacuum and any truly open border movement would entail the kind of structural respect for others that could reduce the motivations for migrating.
I've a long way to go but I feel I've come a pretty long way since I started posting here and it's here where I initially got the motivation to study philosophy in part due to the people quoted here.