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    Can the right to internal movement, residence, and employment ground a right to immigrate?Michael Rabinder James - 2019 - Ethics and Global Politics 12 (2):1-18.
    This article challenges Kieran Oberman’s derivation of a right to immigrate from the right to internal movement, residence, and employment. His argument depends on a cantilever strategy, which finds it illogical to recognize one right without recognizing an analogous second right. This differs from a direct argument, which derives a right directly from an essential human interest, and an instrumental argument, which identifies one right as a means to protecting another right. The strength of a cantilever argument depends on the (...)
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    Tribal sovereignty and the intercultural public sphere.Michael Rabinder James - 1999 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 25 (5):57-86.
    While theorists of cultural pluralism have generally supported tribal sovereignty to protect threatened Native cultures, they fail to address adequately cultural conflicts between Native and non-Native communities, especially when tribal sovereignty facilitates illiberal or undemocratic practices. In response, I draw on Jürgen Habermas' conceptions of dis-course and the public sphere to develop a universalist approach to cultural pluralism, called the 'intercultural public sphere', which analyzes how cultures can engage in mutual learning and mutual criticism under fair conditions. This framework accommodates (...)
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    The right to immigrate and responsibility for the past.Michael Rabinder James - 2022 - Journal of Global Ethics 18 (2):267-285.
    Do past state actions, such as the American conquest of northern Mexico, the British colonization of South Asia, and the Spanish expulsion of the Sephardim and Moriscos, grant contemporary Mexicans, South Asians, and the descendants of the Sephardim and Moriscos a particular right to immigrate to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain respectively? In this paper I examine three theoretical models for addressing this question: retrospective responsibility for historic injustice; the principle of coercively constituted identities; and the theory (...)
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    (1 other version)Communicative Action, Strategic Action, and Inter-Group Dialogue.Michael Rabinder James - 2003 - European Journal of Political Theory 2 (2):157-182.
    A consensus has emerged among many normative theorists of cultural pluralism that dialogue is the key to securing just relations among ethnic or cultural groups. However, few normative theorists have explored the conditions or incentives that enable inter-group dialogue versus those that encourage inter-group conflict. To address this problem, I use Habermas’s distinction between communicative and strategic action, since many models of inter-group dialogue implicitly rely upon communicative action, while many accounts of inter-group conflict rest upon strategic action. Drawing on (...)
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    Essentialism or Threat Perception. On Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity.Michael Rabinder James - forthcoming - Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche.
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