Recent Articles
FEB 3, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Immigration Administration Control in Japan
Japanese immigration policy seeks to balance the needs of migrants and refugees with the harmonious functioning of Japanese industry, society, and employment.
FEB 1, 2010 • Article
Obama and Democracy Assistance: Challenges and Responses
Although Obama has largely avoided the term democracy assistance, in fact he has delivered a considered and astute response to overcoming Bush's tarnished legacy--a response ...
JAN 26, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Managed Rights, Managed Migration
While international migration is yet to be seen as an international public good, the international regime for orderly movement of people may eventually become a ...
JAN 26, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Englishization of Higher Education in Asia and Migratory Flows of International Students
The Malaysian case of English-medium higher education represents what may be called a postcolonial pattern of English-mediated globalization wherein the old center-periphery arguments of linguistic ...
JAN 26, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Linking Ethics and Self-Interest in Human Mobility
The ethical and self-interested choice in migration policy is to seek liberalized and rationalized migration that combines positive incentives with clear and fair entry criteria ...
JAN 25, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Ethics of Undocumented Migration
Using fieldwork data through participant observation and interviews, this paper explains the causes of undocumented migration out of Fujian and explores the ethical frameworks within ...
JAN 22, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Right to Move
A collection of essays from our joint Sophia University-Carnegie Council conference exploring the ethics of an international right to migration.
JAN 21, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Cosmopolitanism as Virtue
Without high levels of migration, and a related ethical commitment to cosmopolitanism, nation-states will fail to develop the individual and collective virtues suitable to "living ...
JAN 21, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Capabilities Approach and Collective Ownership of the Earth
If people of a particular country are using more than their proportionate share of the collectively owned planet, they should allow for immigration.
JAN 21, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Precarious Lives
If existing refugee protection and international humanitarian regimes are already under serious strain, how can global cooperation be extended for the protection of vulnerable persons ...