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JUN 13, 2008 Journal

Immigration Policy and "Immanent Critique"

Carens's use of 'immanent critique' to ground his moral prescriptions on the not yet realized normative purposes of the immigration policies of liberal democratic states ...

JUN 13, 2008 Journal

Migrants and Work-related Rights

Carens's discussion of the work-related rights of irregular migrants fails to consider the differentiated employment rights of legal temporary migrants, permanent residents, and citizens.

JUN 13, 2008 Journal

Irregular Migrants: An Alternative Perspective

While accepting Carens's view that irregular migrants can rightfully claim from the state protection of human rights, Miller disagrees that such migrants can claim rights ...

JUN 13, 2008 Journal

The Elusive Rights of an Invisible Population

Carens's suggestion for a so-called firewall protecting irregular migrants' basic rights creates serious problems of coherence and feasibility for the legal and political systems of ...

JUN 13, 2008 Journal

The Rights of Irregular Migrants

Irregular migrants are morally entitled to a wide range of legal rights, including basic human and civil rights. Therefore, states ought to create a firewall ...

JUN 13, 2008 Journal

Just War Theory and the Privatization of Military Force

Private military companies are taking over a growing number of roles traditionally performed by the regular military. This article uses the framework of just war ...

JUN 13, 2008 Journal

The Resurgent Idea of World Government [Full Text]

The idea of world government is returning to the mainstream of scholarly thinking about international relations. Will the world-government movement become a potent political force, ...

Pro-MDC expatriates in South Africa. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/sokwanele/1380821576/in/set-72157602012405157/">Sokwanele-Zimbabwe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUN 11, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Diplomatically Quiet on Zimbabwe

Matthew Hennessey interviews Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, on post-election unrest in Zimbabwe ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/5809939090/">NASA Marshall Space Flight Center</a> (<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html">PD</a>).

JUN 11, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Rising Powers in Space

Balancing development and security in outer space will be an important international challenge in coming decades as rising powers force realignment here on Earth.

<a href="http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/asylum?page=gallery&gallery=2&photo=02" target=_blank>UNHCR / A. Di Loreto / July 2007.</a> Refugees Risk<br />Their Lives Traveling from Africa to Europe

JUN 10, 2008 Article

Asylum in the EU: Between Ideals and Reality

Those who question the moral significance of borders often invoke the EU as a model of post-national belonging. Yet for asylum-seekers, "Fortress Europe" remains a ...