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Ethics of Immigration
Autumn 2022
Instructor: José J. Mendoza
Email: josejm@uw.edu
Office: Savery Hall 385
Office Hour: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-3:30pm
Course Description
This course is designed as a survey to some of the principal authors, ideas, concepts, and problems found in the ethics of immigration.
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Required Texts
All Texts will be available on Canvas.
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Grading
Reading Quizzes (30% of course grade or 1.2 of the 4.0 total)
Two Short Writing Assignments (each worth 15% of course grade or 0.6 of the 4.0 total)
Final Paper (40% of course grade or 1.6 of the 4.0 total)
Grading Scale
(roughly each 1% increment between grades is equivalent to 0.1)
A 95% = 4.0
B 85% = 3.0
C 75% = 2.0
D 65% = 1.0
At the end of the quarter I will convert your course grade from a percentage to the UW 4-point scale using this metric: 95% and up is 4.0; 94% is 3.9; 93% is 3.8; etc. Each 1% step is a 0.1 step on the UW 4-point scale. So an 86.1%, e.g., would give you a 3.1 on the UW scale. 85.5% rounds up to 86% (and thus 3.1), but 85.49% does not. At the bottom of the scale, however, 60% also rounds up to 0.7. See image below.
Reading Schedule
Unit 1: Classic Open Borders Debate
September 29, 2022: Michael Walzer (1983): “Membership” (Chapter 2 of Spheres of Justice)
October 4, 2022: Michael Walzer (1983): “Membership” (Chapter 2 of Spheres of Justice)
October 6, 2022: Joseph Carens (1987): “Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders”
October 11, 2022: David Miller (2005): “Immigration: The Case for Limits”
October 13, 2022: Michael Blake (2005): “Immigration”
Supplemental and Background Readings
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Roger Nett (1971): "The Civil Right We Are Not Ready For: The Right of Free Movement of People on the Face of the Earth"
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Frederick Whelan (1988): "Citizenship and Freedom of Movement: An Open Admission Policy?"
- Joseph Carens (1992): "Migration and Morality: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective"
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Jean Hampton (1995): "Immigration, Identity, and Justice"
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Stephen Perry (1995): “Immigration, Justice, and Culture”
- Veit Bader (1995): "Citizenship and Exclusion: Radical Democracy, Community, and Justice. Or, What is Wrong with Communitarianism?"
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Chandran Kukathas (2005): "The Case for Open Immigration"
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Michael Huemer (2010): "Is There a Right to Immigrate?"
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Kieran Oberman (2016): "Immigration as a Human Right"
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Unit 2: Freedom of Association and its Critics
October 18, 2022: Christopher Heath Wellman (2008): “Immigration and Freedom of Association”
October 20, 2022: Sarah Fine (2010): “Freedom of Association Is Not the Answer”
October 25, 2022: Shelley Wilcox (2014): Do Duties to Outsiders Entail Open Borders?”
October 27, 2022: Michael Blake (2012): “Immigration, Association, and Anti-discrimination”
November 3, 2022: Michael Blake (2013): Immigration, Jurisdiction, and Exclusion”
November 1, 2022: .José Jorge Mendoza (2017): The Ethics of Immigration Enforcement" (Chapter 5 of The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration)
Supplemental and Background Readings
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Sune Laegaard (2013): "Territorial Rights, Political Association, and Immigration"
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Javier Hidalgo (2014): "Self-Determination, Immigration Restrictions, and the Problem of Compatriot Deportation"
- Patti Tamara Lenard (2015): "The Ethics of Deportation in Liberal Democratic States"
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Sahar Akhtar (2022) Race Beyond Our Borders: Is Racial and Ethnic Immigration Selection Always Morally Wrong?
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Unit 3: Immigration Enforcement and Immigrant Rights
November 8, 2022: Arash Abizadeh (2008): “Democratic Theory and Border Coercion”
November 10, 2022: David Miller (2010): “Why Immigration Controls Are Not Coercive”
November 10, 2022: Arash Abizadeh (2010): “Reply to Miller”
November 15, 2022: Joseph Carens (2008): "The Rights of Irregular Migrants"
November 17, 2022: David Miller (2016): "The Rights of Immigrants" (Chapter 7 in Strangers in Our Midst)
Supplemental and Background Readings
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Michael Blake (2010): “Equality without Documents: Political Justice and the Right to Amnesty”
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Linda Bosniak (2007): "Being Here: Ethical Territoriality and The Rights of Immigrants"
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Linda Bosniak (2013): "Amnesty in Immigration: Forgetting, Forgiving, Freedom"
- Paulina Ochoa Espejo (2016): "Taking Place Seriously: Territorial Presence and the Rights of Immigrants”
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Sarah Song (2016): "The Significance of Territorial Presence and the Rights of Immigrants"
- José Jorge Mendoza (2020): Crimmigration and the Ethics of Migration
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Unit 4: Respecting and Resisting Immigration Law
November 22, 2022: Shelley Wilcox (2019): "How Can Sanctuary Policies be Justified?"
November 29, 2022: Grant J Silva (2019): "Migratorial Disobedience The Fetishization of Immigration Law" and Javier Hidalgo (2019): "Resistance at the Border" (Chapter 5 of Unjust Borders)
December 1, 2022: Javier Hidalgo (2019): "People Smuggling" (Chapter 6 of Unjust Borders)
December 6, 2022: Javier Hidalgo (2019): "Complicity and the Duty to Resist" (Chapter 7 of Unjust Borders)
December 8, 2022: Sarah Song and Irene Bloemraad (2022): "Immigrant Legalization: A Dilemma Between Justice and the Rule of Law"
Supplemental and Background Readings
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Chandran Kukathas (2003): "The Strange Virtue of People-Smuggling"
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Mollie Gerver (2017): "Decriminalizing People Smuggling"
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Julian F Müller (2021): "The Ethics of Commercial Human Smuggling"
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José Jorge Mendoza (2016): Juan Crow and The Future Of Immigration Reform
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Patti Tamara Lenard (2020): “The Ethics of Sanctuary in Liberal Democratic States”
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Amelia Wirts and José Jorge Mendoza (2022): “The Undermining Mechanisms of ‘Rule of Law’ Objections: A Response to Song and Bloemraad”
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