Abstract
Political philosophers such as Joseph Carens, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, and Will Kymlicka have argued for the morality of an open-borders immigration policy, yet other social theorists such as Michael Walzer, Stephen Macedo, and John Isbister dismiss this approach because of the supposed harm that unrestricted immigration would cause to natives. After exploring the normative arguments for and against open borders, the chapter concludes that the crux of many theoretical objections to unrestricted immigration is empirical. Unfortunately, however, many of the factual assumptions that immigration restrictionists make have not been fully or rigorously tested. This monograph therefore aims to see if unregulated immigration actually hurts natives. In testing this hypothesis, the book focuses on three natural experiments: Mariel Cubans in Miami; Algerian “Repatriates” in Marseille; and Eastern Europeans in Dublin.
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