On Membership and Free Movement

Abstract

The field of ethics of migration is broadly divided into two areas: the first pertains to admission policies, the second to models of integration and naturalization. The two questions at the centre of these debates — who should get in and what should their rights and obligations be if they are admitted — are often discussed in isolation from one another. Moreover, they are also often considered as normatively independent from each other, and this is not necessarily a mistake.¹

For helpful discussions and written comments thanks are due to Geoffrey Braham Levey, David Miller, Kieran Oberman, Valeria Ottonelli, Thomas Pogge and Jonathan Seglow.