Justice for People on the Move
Migration in Challenging Times

Offers a comprehensive framework that can assist in responding to new justice challenges for people on the move.

Gillian Brock (Author)

9781108733007, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 December 2021

259 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.386 kg

'Her argument is a powerful and searing indictment of the inadequacy of present efforts and attitudes towards migrants and refugees. We should learn the lessons Brock offers, as well as investigate alternative pathways for clearing more access routes to developed states for people on the move. Pandemic aside, the international community ought to do much better, and this book offers one such path forward.' Carmen Pavel, Ethical Perspectives

By executive order, the US adopted an immigration policy that looks remarkably similar to a Muslim ban, and threatened to deport long-settled residents, such as the so-called Dreamers. Our defunct refugee system has not dealt adequately with increased refugee flows, forcing desperate people to undertake increasingly risky measures in efforts to reach safe havens. Meanwhile increased migration flows over recent years appear to have contributed to a rise in right-wing populism, apparently driving phenomena such as Brexit and Trumpism. In this original and insightful book Gillian Brock offers answers and tools that assist us in evaluating current migration policy and in helping to determine which policies may be permissible and which are normatively indefensible. She offers a comprehensive framework for responding to the many challenges which have recently emerged, and for delivering justice for people on the move along with those affected by migration.

1. New migration justice challenges and how to solve them: an overview
2. Migration, justice and territory: towards a justificatory framework
3. Self-determination, legitimacy, and the state system: a normative framework
4. Muslim bans
5. Irregular migration
6. Refugees
7. Temporary labor migration
8. Terrorism and migration
9. Migration in a legitimate state system: problems, progress and prospects.

Subject Areas: Human rights [JPVH], Social & political philosophy [HPS], Philosophy [HP], Humanities [H]