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.

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, focusing on aspects of global distributive justice and international migration.

• 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