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Article: Border Coercion and ‘Democratic Legitimacy’: On Abizadeh’s Argument Against Current Regimes of Border Control
Title | Border Coercion and ‘Democratic Legitimacy’: On Abizadeh’s Argument Against Current Regimes of Border Control |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Arash Abizadeh Borders Coercion Democracy Immigration Maxime Lepoutre Permissibility Rights |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag Dordrecht. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1356-4765 |
Citation | Res Publica, 2020, v. 26 n. 2, p. 281-292 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Arash Abizadeh claims that ‘[a]nyone accepting the democratic theory of political legitimation domestically is thereby committed to rejecting the unilateral domestic right to control state boundaries’. He bases this conclusion on the premise that ‘to be democratically legitimate, a state’s regime of border control must result from political processes in which those subject to it—including foreigners—have a right of democratic participation’. I shall argue that this premise, even if it were correct, does not support the conclusion since ‘democratic legitimacy’ (in Abizadeh’s sense) is morally irrelevant: that something is ‘democratically illegitimate’ in no way suggests, let alone implies, that it is also morally impermissible or contravenes a moral right. I shall consider counter-arguments advanced against this objection by Maxime Lepoutre and Abizadeh himself and argue that they fail. Thus there is no valid democratic argument against border coercion. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272314 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.380 |
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dc.contributor.author | Steinhoff, U | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-20T10:39:53Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-20T10:39:53Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Res Publica, 2020, v. 26 n. 2, p. 281-292 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1356-4765 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272314 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Arash Abizadeh claims that ‘[a]nyone accepting the democratic theory of political legitimation domestically is thereby committed to rejecting the unilateral domestic right to control state boundaries’. He bases this conclusion on the premise that ‘to be democratically legitimate, a state’s regime of border control must result from political processes in which those subject to it—including foreigners—have a right of democratic participation’. I shall argue that this premise, even if it were correct, does not support the conclusion since ‘democratic legitimacy’ (in Abizadeh’s sense) is morally irrelevant: that something is ‘democratically illegitimate’ in no way suggests, let alone implies, that it is also morally impermissible or contravenes a moral right. I shall consider counter-arguments advanced against this objection by Maxime Lepoutre and Abizadeh himself and argue that they fail. Thus there is no valid democratic argument against border coercion. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag Dordrecht. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1356-4765 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Res Publica | - |
dc.subject | Arash Abizadeh | - |
dc.subject | Borders | - |
dc.subject | Coercion | - |
dc.subject | Democracy | - |
dc.subject | Immigration | - |
dc.subject | Maxime Lepoutre | - |
dc.subject | Permissibility | - |
dc.subject | Rights | - |
dc.title | Border Coercion and ‘Democratic Legitimacy’: On Abizadeh’s Argument Against Current Regimes of Border Control | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Steinhoff, U: ustnhoff@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Steinhoff, U=rp00610 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11158-019-09428-1 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85083482403 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 298550 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 281 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 292 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000526352800009 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | - |
dc.relation.project | Special Issues in the Ethics of War: Guerrillas, Warlords, Drones, Mercenaries, Preventive War, and Humanitarian Intervention | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1356-4765 | - |