The ethics of international migration: generosity, benevolence, and care
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2021.e80439Abstract
The current scenes of international migration face us with one pressing question: Does the distribution of membership should be the object of a theory of justice? This paper aims to assemble a set of perspectives on the ethics of migration united by a firm negative answer to this question. Namely, theoretical perspectives for whom political membership cannot be the proper object of social justice. The reconstruction is organized according to the following thread: in the first two sections, it presents and articulates arguments trying to show why benevolence (Stephen Macedo), and duties out of care (David Miller) could conform a more suitable moral vocabulary regarding the normative problems brought about by people crossing state borders. After that, and momentarily begging the question about whether the language of social justice is the most adequate in dealing with concerns of international migration, it is raised the question on how each of the aforementioned ideas (generosity, benevolence, and care) could work when one must interpret and evaluate asylum claims. Finally, the last section is dedicated to showing what is required from liberal and democratic political authorities when such alternative moral languages are used as the privileged way of conceiving the claims of asylum-seekers.
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