Intelligence and Immigration
1 Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis
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Received: 3 Jul 2024 / Revised: 24 Aug 2024 / Accepted: 15 Aug 2024 / Published: 30 Oct 2024
Abstract
The relative intelligence of prospective migrants likely does little to move the needle on the central issue in the ethics of immigration, namely, whether states are morally entitled to forcibly exclude outsiders. Even so, I argue that varying levels of intelligence may be relevant to a number of theoretically interesting and practically pressing issues. In particular, such variations may in some cases (1) affect the number of refugees a country is obligated to accept, (2) be relevant to the advisability of encouraging refugees to resettle rather than attempting to help them where they are, and (3) have implications for relational egalitarians who are especially concerned with inequalities among fellow citizens.
Keywords: immigration; intelligence; refugees; relational egalitarianism; brain drain; assimilation
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Wellman, C.H. Intelligence and Immigration. Controversial_Ideas 2024, 4, 14.
Wellman CH. Intelligence and Immigration. Journal of Controversial Ideas. 2024; 4(2):14.
Wellman, Christopher Heath. 2024. "Intelligence and Immigration." Controversial_Ideas 4, no. 2: 14.
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