By Bernard E. Harcourt The rich conversation at Abolition Democracy 12/13 underscores the often-implicit or unspoken distinction, in debates over borders, between jurisdictional boundaries for purposes of democratic self-governance and territorial borders for purposes of migration. The difference between boundaries… Continue Reading
By Joseph Carens My remarks come in two parts. The first part focuses on two different ways of thinking about the ethics of migration, using a discussion of refugees to illustrate the issue. The second part focuses on the legitimacy… Continue Reading
By Seyla Benhabib* I. If the COVID-19 pandemic has made anything clear it is the absurdity of our faith in closing borders which many citizens and residents all over the world clamored for as a measure against an invisible virus, while… Continue Reading
By Paulina Ochoa Espejo Should we abolish borders? Today every country’s borders are unjust, cruel, and rotten. This is true even of open, cooperative borders, like those inside Schengen Europe. They too are unjust, in that their relative openness depends… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Border control regimes—like the beams that crumble when you try to drive a screw into them—are rotten and cannot be fixed, but they stand because of all the institutional and economic structures around them act like… Continue Reading