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Project

Should Immigrants Have Fewer Language Rights and Socio-Economic Rights Than Citizens? An Enquiry Into The Moral Bases of Denizens’ Linguistic and Socio-Economic Entitlements

Immigrants are generally thought to be entitled to fewer language rights than citizens, whose longsettled languages almost universally receive more official recognition. More recently, the idea has appeared both in the academic literature and in the public debates in European and North-American states that immigrants might likewise be entitled to fewer socio-economic rights. Should immigrants really have fewer rights than citizens? What, if anything, is the normative basis for such rights differentiation between citizens and 'denizens'? These questions are crucial to the academic migration debate in normative political philosophy, but are also of pressing societal interest today. The objectives of the proposed research project are 1) to theorize the differential linguistic entitlements of citizens and denizens, 2) to theorize the differential socio-economic entitlements of citizens and denizens, and 3) to contribute to the development and evaluation of a normative political theory of differential rights for citizens and denizens.

Date:1 Jan 2019 →  31 Dec 2022
Keywords:Social and political philosophy
Disciplines:Citizenship, immigration and political inequality not elsewhere classified, Social ethics, Legal ethics