This book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary debate about multiculturalism and democratic theory. It reflects upon the ways in which claims about culture and identity are advanced by immigrants, national minorities, aboriginals, and other groups. It argues that liberal democrats should provide recognition and support for minority cultures and identities, and examines case studies from a number of different societies to show how theorists can learn about justice.

Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness

Politics & Social Sciences

Carens, Joseph H.

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

This book contributes to contemporary debates about multiculturalism and democratic theory by reflecting upon the ways in which claims about culture and identity are actually advanced by immigrants, national minorities, aboriginals and other groups in a number of different societies. Carens advocates a contextual approach to theory that explores the implications of theoretical views for actual cases, reflects on the normative principles embedded in practice, and takes account of the ways in which differences between societies matter. He argues that this sort of contextual approach will show why the conventional liberal understanding of justice as neutrality needs to be supplemented by a conception of justice as evenhandedness and why the conventional conception of citizenship is an intellectual and moral prison from which we can be liberated by an understanding of citizenship that is more open to multiplicity and that grows out of practices we judge to be just and beneficial.

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Equality, Moral Incentives, and the Market: An Essay in Utopian Politico-Economic Theory

Business & Money

Univ of Chicago Pr

A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.
The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give the approximately eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States a path to legalization of status. Commentators have been quick to observe that any such proposal will face intense opposition. Few issues have so divided the country in recent years as immigration. Immigrants and the Right to Stay brings the debate into the realm of public reason. Political theorist Joseph Carens argues that although states have a right to control their borders, the right to deport those who violate immigration laws is not absolute. With time, immigrants develop a moral claim to stay. Emphasizing the moral importance of social membership, and drawing on principles widely recognized in liberal democracies, Carens calls for a rolling amnesty that gives unauthorized migrants a path to regularize their status once they have been settled for a significant period of time. After Carens makes his case, six experts from across the political spectrum respond. Some protest that he goes too far; others say he does not go far enough in protecting the rights of migrants. Several raise competing moral claims and others help us understand how the immigration problem became so large. Carens agrees that no moral claim is absolute, and that, on any complex public issue, principled debate involves weighing competing concerns. But for him the balance falls clearly on the side of amnesty.

Immigrants and the Right to Stay (Boston Review Books)

Politics & Government

Mit Pr

Immigrants and the Right to Stay (Boston Review)

Is Quebec Nationalism Just?: Perspectives from Anglophone Canada

The relationship between liberalism and nationalism is of growing importance in many areas of the world. These essays simultaneously deepen our understanding of the specific case of Quebec and help to map a theoretical territory that, while vitally important in the modern world, is largely unexplored. Is Quebec Nationalism Just? will be of interest to those concerned with the relationship between Quebec and Canada as well as scholars in the fields of political theory, Canadian politics, constitutionalism, and public policy. Contents Liberalism, Justice, and Political Community: Theoretical Perspectives on Quebec's Liberal Nationalism - Joseph H. Carens (Toronto) - Immigration, Political Community, and the Transformation of Identity: Quebec's Immigration Politics in Critical Perspective ? Joseph H. Carens ? Canada, Quebec, and Refugee Claimants ? Howard Adelman (York) ? From Provincial Autonomy to Provincial Equality (Or, Clyde Wells and the Distinct Society) ? Robert Vipond (Toronto) ? Decline of Procedural Liberalism: The Slippery Slope to Secession ? Janet Ajzenstat (McMaster) ? The Ideology of Shared Values: A Myopic Vision of Unity in the Multi-nation State ? Wayne J. Norman (Ottawa) ? Quebec: The Morality of Secession ? Howard Adelman ? Quebec's Self-determination and Aboriginal Self-government: Conflict and Reconciliation? ? Reg Whitaker (York).

History

Americas

Acumen Publishing

The relationship between liberalism and nationalism is of growing importance in many areas of the world. These essays simultaneously deepen our understanding of the specific case of Quebec and help to map a theoretical territory that, while vitally important in the modern world, is largely unexplored. Is Quebec Nationalism Just? will be of interest to those concerned with the relationship between Quebec and Canada as well as scholars in the fields of political theory, Canadian politics, constitutionalism, and public policy. Contents Liberalism, Justice, and Political Community: Theoretical Perspectives on Quebec's Liberal Nationalism - Joseph H. Carens (Toronto) - Immigration, Political Community, and the Transformation of Identity: Quebec's Immigration Politics in Critical Perspective - Joseph H. Carens - Canada, Quebec, and Refugee Claimants - Howard Adelman (York) - From Provincial Autonomy to Provincial Equality (Or, Clyde Wells and the Distinct Society) - Robert Vipond (Toronto) - Decline of Procedural Liberalism: The Slippery Slope to Secession - Janet Ajzenstat (McMaster) - The Ideology of Shared Values: A Myopic Vision of Unity in the Multi-nation State - Wayne J. Norman (Ottawa) - Quebec: The Morality of Secession - Howard Adelman - Quebec's Self-determination and Aboriginal Self-government: Conflict and Reconciliation? - Reg Whitaker (York).

McGill-Queen's University Press

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Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness

Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness

Equality, Moral Incentives, and the Market: An Essay in Utopian Politico-Economic Theory

Immigrants and the Right to Stay (Boston Review Books)

Immigrants and the Right to Stay (Boston Review)

Is Quebec Nationalism Just?: Perspectives from Anglophone Canada

Is Quebec Nationalism Just?: Perspectives from Anglophone Canada