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The text outlines Joseph Carens’s Political Philosophy and is the introduction to the volume Joseph Carens. Between Aliens and Citizens which comprises a critical discussion of Carens’s work as well as his detailed replies.
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Carens’s claims about the fair treatment of Muslims are challenged in this volume by Güttner/Heying/Luangyosluachakul (Chap. 4).
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The arguments used to justify these policies are critically discussed in this volume by Jeggle/Vogt-Reimuth (Chap. 3).
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For a condensed summary of Carens’s claims about immigration, see also Chap. 2 of this volume.
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The temporal element of Carens’s view is discussed in this volume by Müller-Salo (Chap. 6), while Bonberg/Rensing (Chap. 5) argue that Carens should treat voting rights differently from other rights linked to citizenship.
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See EoI, Chap. 2. Carens already points out at length in CCC (Chaps. 7 and 8) that citizenship should be understood in ways that are compatible with multiple memberships and overlapping identities.
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That Carens should add victims of historical injustice to the list of exceptions is the argument made in this volume by Urselmann/Schwabe (Chap. 9).
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Rawls himself would later reject the attempt to use the veil of ignorance at an international level; see Rawls 1999.
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The structure and implications of the cantilever argument are scrutinized in this volume by Düring/Luft (Chap. 10).
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Whether the Open Border Claim can justify claims in nonideal worlds is discussed in this volume by Hoesch/Kleinschmidt (Chap. 11).
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The question of how both utopias might be combined is treated in this volume by Förster/Gotzes/Hennemann/Kahmen/Westerhorstmann (Chap. 12).
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———. 1987. Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders. The Review of Politics 49 (2): 251–273. (= AC).
———., ed. 1995. Is Quebec Nationalism Just? Perspectives from Anglophone Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. (= QN).
———. 2000. Culture, Citizenship, and Community. A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (= CCC).
———. 2003. An Interpretation and Defense of the Socialist Principle of Distribution. Social Philosophy and Policy 20 (1): 145–177. (= SPD).
———. 2005. The Integration of Immigrants. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2 (1): 29–46. (= IoI).
———. 2010. Immigrants and the Right to Stay. Cambridge: MIT Press. (= IRS).
———. 2015a. The Ethics of Immigration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (= EoI).
———. 2015b. The Egalitarian Ethos As a Social Mechanism. In Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage. G. A. Cohen’s Egalitarianism, ed. Alexander H. Kaufman, 50–78. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (= EESM).
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———. 1995. Multicultural Citizenship. A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford: Clarendon.
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Hoesch, M., Mooren, N. (2020). Between Aliens and Citizens. An Outline of Joseph Carens’s Political Philosophy. In: Hoesch, M., Mooren, N. (eds) Joseph Carens: Between Aliens and Citizens. Münster Lectures in Philosophy, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44476-1_1
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