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45 San Diego L. Rev. 933 (2008)
Immigration, Political Community, and Cosmopolitanism

handle is hein.journals/sanlr45 and id is 941 raw text is: CHRISTIANO.PRINTER.DOC Immigration, Political Community, and Cosmopolitanism THOMAS CHRISTIANO* TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. CONTRACTUALIST DEFENSES OF A NONCOSMOPOLITAN CONCEPTION OF POLITICAL COMMUNITY ........................................................... 938 II. COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE MODERN DEMOCRATIC STATE .............................. 948 III. IMMIGRATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM .............................................................. 954 IV . TRADE-O FFS BETW EEN INJUSTICES .................................................................... 959 V . C O N C L U SIO N ..................................................................................................... 9 6 1 Is there any good reason from within moral cosmopolitanism to limit immigration into political societies? A morally cosmopolitan view asserts that the fundamental norms of justice that ground the legitimacy and justice of the political communities of modem states are ones that hold for the whole world community. And whether one holds to liberal egalitarian or classical liberal cosmopolitan principles, the initial impulse of cosmopolitans is to assert that political societies do not have a right to limit immigration into political communities. Each person is entitled on these views to equality of opportunity or freedom of movement respectively and thereby is entitled to move into, or avail themselves of the opportunities in, any political society. Hence cosmopolitanism would appear, on its face, to imply that open borders are required by justice. * Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Arizona. I want to thank Fernando Teson for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. I also thank Andrew Williams for discussion of some of the ideas. 11/25/2008 1:59:11 PM