Why immigration controls are not coercive: A reply to Arash Abizadeh

Political Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-120

  Miller, David ^a  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Coercion; Democracy; Immigration

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149103214     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: 15527476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591709348194     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Arash Abizadeh, "Democratic Theory and Border Coercion: No Right to Unilater-ally Control Your Own Borders," Political Theory 36, no. 1 (2008): 37-65.
2. Bracketed capital letters refer to additions to the text available in the online version of this article.
3. Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), 372-73.
4. Robert Nozick, "Coercion," in Philosophy, Politics and Society, Fourth Series, eds. P. Laslett, W. G. Runciman, and Q. Skinner (Oxford: Blackwell, 1972), 101-35.
5. Raz, Morality of Freedom, 377.
6. Raz, Morality of Freedom, 372.
7. I have discussed what a justifiable immigration policy for a democratic state might look like in "Immigration: The Case for Limits," in Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, eds. A. I. Cohen and C. H. Wellman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 193-206.
8. and in National Responsibility and Global Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), chap. 8.