April 19th\, 2024 3:30 - 5:00p PST
\n\nIn a recent paper\, &ldquo\;Why Does the State Have the Right to Control Immigration?&rdquo\;\, Sarah Song provides a defense of the right of liberal democratic states to control movement\, especially in-bound movement\, of people across their borders. Against arguments for border control that are based a) in the need to preserve cultural/national identity\, b) on an analogy to the freedom of association inherent to personal relationships\, and c) on an analogy to the right of exclusion inherent to property rights&mdash\;all three of which she rightly finds insufficient in justifying the state&rsquo\;s power over its points of entry&mdash\;Song presents a defense of border control centered in the &ldquo\;democratic self-determination of a people.&rdquo\; I contend that Song likewise falls short of justifying this particular state power\, chiefly because such justification would require an account of how this power is to be &ldquo\;weighed against the migrant&rsquo\;s claim to enter&rdquo\;&mdash\;a claim that lies\, by definition\, outside the scope of her conception of democratic self-determination\, and which Song therefore sees\, incorrectly I argue\, as outside the scope of her argument.
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