Unjust borders: individuals and the ethics of immigration - 3

States restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorise border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centers, and deport large numbers of foreigners.

This book argues that immigration restrictions are systematically unjust and examines how individual actors should respond to this injustice.

Javier Hidalgo maintains that individuals can rightfully resist immigration restrictions and often have strong moral reasons to subvert these laws.

The book makes the case that unauthorised migrants can permissibly evade, deceive, and use defensive force against immigration agents, that smugglers can aid migrants in crossing borders, and that citizens should disobey laws that compel them to harm immigrants.