TY - JOUR
T1 - Asylum for sale
T2 - A market between states that is feasible and desirable
AU - Himmelreich, Johannes
N1 - Funding Information:
The latest drafts of this paper have been written during a postdoctoral fellowship at IRI THESys, Humboldt-Universitatzu Berlin, the support of which I gratefully acknowledge. The article has also benefitted from the hospitality of the Research School of Social Sciences during a visit to the Australian National University (ANU) in 2013. For helpful comments and encouraging discussions I would like to thank Geoffrey Brennan, Lars Christie, Bob Goodin, Christian List, Marco Meyer, Anne Newman, Jesse Saloom, Andreas T. Schmidt, Ying Shi, Nic Southwood, Daniel Stol-jar, Alex Voorhoeve, Michelle Worthington, Lea Ypi, the referees and the editor of this journal, and all members of the MSPT Seminar at the ANU.
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PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - The asylum system faces problems on two fronts. States undermine it with populist politics, and migrants use it to satisfy their migration preferences. To address these problems, asylum services should be commodified. States should be able to pay other states to provide determination and protection-elsewhere. In this article, I aim to identify a way of implementing this idea that is both feasible and desirable. First, I sketch a policy proposal for a commodification of asylum services. Then, I argue that this policy proposal is not only compatible with the right to asylum, but also supported by moral considerations. Despite some undesirable moral features, a market in asylum facilitates the provision of asylum to those who need it.
AB - The asylum system faces problems on two fronts. States undermine it with populist politics, and migrants use it to satisfy their migration preferences. To address these problems, asylum services should be commodified. States should be able to pay other states to provide determination and protection-elsewhere. In this article, I aim to identify a way of implementing this idea that is both feasible and desirable. First, I sketch a policy proposal for a commodification of asylum services. Then, I argue that this policy proposal is not only compatible with the right to asylum, but also supported by moral considerations. Despite some undesirable moral features, a market in asylum facilitates the provision of asylum to those who need it.
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U2 - 10.1111/japp.12289
DO - 10.1111/japp.12289
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065529400
SN - 0264-3758
VL - 36
SP - 217
EP - 232
JO - Journal of Applied Philosophy
JF - Journal of Applied Philosophy
IS - 2
ER -