How should we understand the political morality of migration? Are travel bans, walls, or carrier sanctions ever morally permissible in a just society? This book offers a new approach to these and related questions. It identifies a particular vision of how we might apply the notion of justice to migration policy - and an argument in favor of expanding the ethical tools we use, to include not only justice but moral notions such as mercy.

• Preface


• Chapter One: On Morality and Migration


• Chapter Two: Justice and the Excluded, Part One: Open Borders


• Chapter Three: Justice and the Excluded, Part Two: Closed Borders


• Chapter Four: Justice, Jurisdiction, and Migration


• Chapter Five: Coercion and Refuge


• Chapter Six: Choosing and Refusing: On Migration, Exclusion, and the Bigot's Veto


• Chapter Seven: People, Places, and Plans: On Love, Migration, and Documentation


• Chapter Eight: Reciprocity, the Undocumented, and Jeb Bush


• Chapter Nine: On Mercy in Politics


• Chapter Ten: Migration and Mercy


• Bibliography

Michael Blake is Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance at the University of Washington. He writes on issues of liberal justice and state borders, with a particular focus on aspects of global distributive justice and international migration.