Immigration and Freedom

""A revelatory rethinking of immigration controls from one of today's most original and incisive political philosophers.""--Leif Wenar, Stanford University ""Chandran Kukathas turns current public and academic debates over immigration on their head in this careful, original, and compelling account of how border controls infringe the liberties of the very citizens they aim to protect. Immigration and Freedom is little short of a revelation.""--Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford ""Political philosophy at its best makes us rethink our collective life by offering a fresh and enlightened, possibly surprising perspective. Immigration and Freedom masterfully achieves that, as it redirects our attention from what happens at our borders, important as it is, to the society of surveillance that arises with the control of migrants. Chandran Kukathas's treatise is an exemplary work of 'grounded' political theory uncompromising in its quest for individual freedom pitched against the power of the nation-state.""--Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt ""Sober and balanced, Immigration and Freedom explores the threat that the prevalent state focus on immigration control poses to the ideal of an open society. Kukathas draws out the ways--both blatant and subtle--in which immigration control limits the freedom of outsiders and insiders alike. This impressive and original book is quite unlike anything else published in this field.""--David Owen, author of What Do We Owe to Refugees? ""This important book looks at immigration through the lens of freedom, which no theorists working on immigration have done previously. Its entire argument is well-crafted and the work makes an important contribution to the political theory literature on immigration.""--Jeff Spinner-Halev, author of Enduring Injustice