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The mutual respect that people owe one another requires that we ensure that when we appropriate valuable natural opportunities (land, fresh water, minerals, etc.), we leave as much per capita for everyone else as we take for ourselves. This implies that those of us who have access to natural opportunities from which others are excluded (e.g., land in countries with guarded borders) have an obligation to share with those who have been excluded. Thus we owe refuge to economic as well as political refugees. We do not owe them citizenship, but if we accord them the refuge that they can justly claim, we are likely to find in most cases that we might as well grant them citizenship.
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Tideman, T.N. (2016). If We Were Just We Would Provide Refuge for All. In: Cudd, A., Lee, Wc. (eds) Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age. AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32786-0_17
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