%0 Journal Article
%T Eyes wide shut: The curious silence of The law of peoples on questions of immigration and citizenship.
%A Robert W. Glover
%J Eidos
%D 2011
%I Universidad del Norte
%X In an interdependent world of overlapping political memberships and identities, states and democratic citizens face difficult choices in responding to large-scale migration and the related question of who ought to have access to citizenship. In an influential attempt to provide a normative framework for a more just global order, The Law of Peoples, John Rawls is curiously silent regarding what his framework would mean for the politics of migration. In this piece, I consider the complications Rawls¡¯s inattention to these issues creates for his broader vision of global justice. Yet I also attempt to show how these aspects of Rawls¡¯s theory emerge from an underlying tension which confronts all liberal democratic conceptions of justice, both in theory and in practice. In my conclusion, I sketch an alternative rooted in the insights of agonistic pluralism, which ¡°breaks¡± the Rawlsian silence and actively theorizes the democratic legitimation of political borders.
%K Immigration
%K migration
%K citizenship
%K Rawls
%K The Law of Peoples.
%U http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/eidos/article/view/2137/1374