Gillian Brock - Migration and Political Theory

As we have seen in this chapter, the right to control admissions raises issues about the nature of political communities and membership, whether embracing a public culture is important to sustaining communities and if so what measures may be taken to protect it. It also invites us to think about who we are, what we ought to value, and the standing of borders. In beginning to address such issues, we have introduced the need for further discussion on a range of issues such as the nature of political community, whether national identity or culture have any roles to play in sustaining democracies, normative limits on rightful authority to exclude from a territory, and ownership of the earth’s resources. While these topics have been introduced in this chapter, further discussion of many key ideas will weave through several other chapters as well. So while readers might well have views about the strengths and weaknesses of arguments presented in this chapter, they are encouraged to remain open to revising their positions in the light of debates to follow. Later chapters take stock of how all these further topics should bear on rights to exclude and responsibilities to admit.

1 *Surprisingly little is still known about these victims. For some information see BBC News, “Essex lorry deaths: People found dead were all Vietnamese,” November 1, 2019, available here: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50268939.

2 *While it is expected that readers will have a reasonably good understanding of what the idea of self-determination involves, for those who are interested in exploring some of the issues that this idea can present, see David Miller (2020). For instance, some of the core questions that may be puzzling include: Is the idea of self-determination an illusion? Does scope for self-determination genuinely exist in our globally interconnected world? Who are the people who should be self-determining? What if those people don’t agree on how to be self-determining? Why should we value self-determination?

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