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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bosniak, Linda

Titel

The basic rights of short-term immigrants also need protection

Ist Teil von

• Boston review (Cambridge, Mass. : 1982), 2009-05, Vol.34 (3), p.19

Ort / Verlag

Somerville: Boston Critic, Incorporated

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]for Carens, the moral claim to regularization requires more than simply showing up. [...]it is precisely by virtue of liberal societies' treatment of these immigrants as basic civic and legal subjects - as entitled to buy and sell, gather and worship, recreate and procreate - that the immigrants' construction of the "social membership" Carens emphasizes is made possible. [...]the most fundamental of liberal (or, more precisely, liberal-nationalist) constitutional norms holds that all persons within the state's jurisdiction are to be accorded basic rights, security, and recognition.