Justice, Immigration and Refugees

Abstract

This paper proceeds in four parts. It 1) summarizes the philosophical debate about issues of justice applied to immigration and refugee policy; 2) proposes a category framework for making immigration and refugee policy; 3) relates the debate concerning justice to the debates on immigration and refugee policy; 4) applies the various concepts of justice to a few specific immigration and refugee issues to illustrate the applicability of the framework while clarifying how issues of justice can be applied to immigration and refugee policy.