2018
DOI: 10.1177/0040563917744396
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Internalized Borders: Immigration Ethics in the Age of Trump

Abstract: The Trump administration’s immigration measures and attendant dehumanizing rhetoric have fanned the flames of nationalism and sown fear in communities. Its internal enforcement strategies are bolstered by manipulative narratives that perpetuate myths and reflect facile analyses of complex dilemmas, focusing on symptoms rather than causes of migration. Reducing immigration questions to the locus of border crossers alone eclipses from view transnational actors responsible for economic instability, violent confli… Show more

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“…Explaining the impact of high levels of debt on international migration, especially from developing nations to developed nations, Heyer (2018) points out to research that: "… links deeper dynamics of debt servicing and extraction to new migratory flows …. 'predatory' forms of advanced capitalism, opaque transnational networks, and a global governance system geared to aiding corporations …" (p. 156).…”
Section: Factors Responsible For International Migrationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Explaining the impact of high levels of debt on international migration, especially from developing nations to developed nations, Heyer (2018) points out to research that: "… links deeper dynamics of debt servicing and extraction to new migratory flows …. 'predatory' forms of advanced capitalism, opaque transnational networks, and a global governance system geared to aiding corporations …" (p. 156).…”
Section: Factors Responsible For International Migrationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These examples can fall under the category of economic freedom or opportunity. Heyer (2018) explains the moral responsibility of supporting immigration through family unification by citing a scholar who writes: "… Aquinas's order of charity for determining a nation's duties to immigrant families offers another application of relational justice to migration ethics" (p. 158). The scholar also "… proposes that Congress grant priority to regularizing undocumented Mexican immigrants who belong to mixed-status families 'out of a sense of beneficence toward the US citizens who love them'" (Heyer, 2018: p. 158;Grover et al, 2019).…”
Section: Factors Responsible For International Migrationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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