Speaker: Chandran Kukathas (London School of Economics)

1. IMMIGRATION
AND
FREEDOM
Chandran kukathas

2.  We asked for workers and got people instead…
 Max Frisch

3. Definitions
Freedom
The Rule of Law
Economics
Culture
Self-determination
Immigration and Governance

4.  Defining Migration, Immigration, and Open Borders
 Definitional Politics
 Immigration Control
 Immigration and Open Borders
 Entry, Participation, Membership

5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Entry Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No
Participation Yes Yes No No No (Yes) No (Yes)
Membership Yes No No No (Yes) (Yes) (Yes) No

6. A B C
ENTRY Easy Hard Very Hard
PARTICIPATION Hard Very Hard Easy
MEMBERSHIP Very Hard Easy Hard

7.  Immigration and Freedom
 Controlling Citizens
 The Apartheid Analogy
 Workers and People

8.  Controlling Citizens
 ‘Since I have become Prime Minister we have made it harder to
get a driving license, to get a bank account, to get a council
house. We have removed more people. All of these actions - the
internal border - matters, as it were, as well as the external
border.’ – David Cameron
 Employment regulation
 Education
 Surveillance

9. The Apartheid analogy
Bantustans – keeping people out
Pass laws – monitoring outsiders moving within
Population Registration Amendment Act 1970
The ideology of apartheid
Sugar Man

10. Workers and People
'A man cannot go with his wife and children and his goods and
chattels on to the labour market. He must have a dumping ground.
Every rabbit must have a warren where he can live and burrow and
breed, and every native must have a warren too'—Sir Godfrey
Yeatman Lagden, Chairman of the Native Affairs Commission in the
Transvaal 1903-1905

11.  Immigration control, equality and the rule of law
 Due process
 Immigration targets
 Citizen deportations
 State and Community

12.  Justifying immigration control:
 Economics
 Culture
 Politics

13.  The Economics of Immigration
 Wealth and Income
 Distribution

14.  Immigration and Culture
 Whose culture?
 The egalitarian dilemma
 Race and Racism

15.  National Self-determination
 One nation?
 Minority rights
 Individual rights
 Citizens’ rights
 Individual v Community/Society/State

16.  Immigration and Governance
 Immigration and Freedom