Volume 24, Number 3
April 2023
ARTICLE

The Right to Emigrate: Exit and Equality in a World of States

Volume 24, Number 3, April 2023, Pages 371–408
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v24i3.2182
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Abstract

It is widely believed that there’s a right to emigrate. But what justifies this right? This paper explores this issue. It first argues that existing defenses of the right to emigrate are incomplete. It then outlines a novel egalitarian defense of the right to emigrate, on which that right is in part justified as a protection against social inequality. After considering objections, it argues that this account of the right to emigrate entails a limited right to immigrate and that states are under a collective duty to institute a global migration system which protects effective exit.
Copyright © 2023 Daniel Sharp
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