出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:Today, most liberal theorists either do not plead for freedom of migration or clearly reject it. In my view, it contradicts not only the traditional natural law theories, but also today's liberal principles of justice such as Rawls's difference principle. In a thought experiment, I compare the imaginary situation, in which immigration were allowed to everybody, while no social and health benefits were provided for immigrants, to the actual situation, in which immigration from the third world is allowed only to a few people, but social benefits are granted to the immigrants. Against the current view, I show that for the worst-off the actual situation is worse than the imaginary situation.