@Article{
AUTHOR = {Oshal, Tavren Oshal},
TITLE = {Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential},
JOURNAL = {Journal of Controversial Ideas},
VOLUME = {5},
YEAR = {2025},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {0--0},
URL = {https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/5/3/301},
ISSN = {2694-5991},
ABSTRACT = {Responding to an article by Rindermann et al. (2024), which reports that refugees in Germany, on average, have significantly lower intelligence than the German host population, Bradley Hillier-Smith has argued that such cognitive disparities – if they exist – are irrelevant to states’ moral duties toward refugees. This article challenges his position. It further contends that even if we adopt a cosmopolitan perspective that denies states the right to prioritize the interests of their own populations, it is not clear that states in the Global North are morally required – or even permitted – to admit large numbers of relatively low-IQ refugees from the Global South. This, I show, is especially true given that assistance could instead take the form of supporting their relocation to a safe country within the region.},
DOI = {10.63466/jci05030006}
}