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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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mafleen/466511076/">Mafleen</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...

JAN 20, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Reconciling an Ethical Immigration Policy with the Nation-state Myth

Don't we, as collective owners and stewards of the Earth, have a basic right to move? Indeed, the right to move is necessary to realize ...

JAN 20, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Ethics of Language Choice in Immigration

Should language rights be understood as collective rights or individual rights? Do language rights entail active endorsement of immigrant languages on the part of the ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/4349639498/">Julien Harneis</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 19, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Developing a Reconciliation Indicator

A composite indicator is needed to substantiate the impact of community-led reconciliation processes and to better target sustainable development aid in post-conflict zones.

JAN 19, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Immigration as a Source of Renewal in Japan

Despite the many potential benefits of more immigration in Japan -- economic, cultural, global -- the country is likely to do little more than tinker ...