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BORDERS- SHAPING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

Journal: SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES (Vol.4, No. 37)

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Page : 8593-8601

Keywords : openborder; closed border; immigration; citizenship; alienage;

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Abstract

The theorists in favour of open border assert the existing limitations on immigration in Western democracies are not reasonable. Like feudal barricades to mobility, they defend unjust honour. And, as it was witnessed, furthermost human beings do not prefer to move, they usually feel emotionally attached to their native land. They seek out to move out when life is very challenging where they are. The communitarian objections to this supposition come especially from Michael Walzer. He enunciates an approach to distributive ethics grounded on complex equality that is meticulously observant to the specific ways specific communities' value goods. A renewed attention in borders and geography amongst theoreticians is giving upsurge to enquiries that are outside the scope of Walzer's system and disclose concepts at the geographic level that weaken his overall approach. This internal discrepancy deteriorates but does not eventually mark-down, Walzer's overall policy of distributive ethics. When standardised to permit for geographic meticulousness, Walzer's approach becomes even more valuable to critique a range of contemporary development movements.

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