Immigration

Abstract Approaches to justice in immigration mainly differ according to the background conception of global justice accepted. The main division can be described in terms of the contrast between cosmopolitan liberals and social liberals. Cosmopolitan liberals typically hold that immigration restrictions must be compatible with principles of global freedom of movement, global equality of opportunity, and global egalitarian distribution if they are to be just. These latter principles are justified, so cosmopolitan liberals argue, by noting their acceptance by liberals for the domestic case and the arbitrariness of failing to extend their reach to the global domain.