What is it about?
This article argues that illegal economic immigration from the world’s most impoverished regions is comparable to fugitive slaves in the 19th century. If one thinks the latter did nothing wrong, you must think the same of the former.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Illegal immigrants are the favourite hobgoblin of the alt-right and many otherwise sensible people view them with near hysterical disdain. This article challenges these intuitions by showing how illegal immigrants are readily comparable to a test case that most people support.
Perspectives
I wrote this to challenge people’s intuitions about illegal immigrations and also as a way of reclaiming the term ‘illegal immigration’. Well-meaning migration advocates often try to mask illegality with terms like ‘irregular’ or slogans like ‘no person is illegal’. This unfortunately masks the importance of law-breaking as a form of resistance.
Dr Gwilym David Blunt
City University
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Illegal Immigration as Resistance to Global Poverty, Raisons politiques, January 2018, CAIRN,
DOI: 10.3917/rai.069.0083.
You can read the full text:
Resources
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
