Abstract
While many argue investment-based criteria for immigration are wrong or at least problematic, skill-based criteria remain relatively uncontroversial. This is normatively inconsistent. This article assesses three prominent normative objections to investment-based selection criteria for immigrants: (i) that they wrongfully discriminate between prospective immigrants (ii) that they are unfair, and (iii) that they undermine political equality among citizens. It argues that either skill-based criteria are equally susceptible to these objections, or that investment-based criteria are equally shielded from them. Indeed, in some ways investment-based criteria are less normatively problematic than skill-based criteria. Given this analysis, the resistance to investment-based migration criteria, but not to skill-based criteria, is inconsistent.
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- Frontmatter
- Introduction to the Second Part of the Special Issue: Towards Foolproof Democracy: Improving Public Debate and Political Decision-Making
- Defeating Fake News: On Journalism, Knowledge, and Democracy
- Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges
- Educating Democratic Character
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- Decriminalizing People Smuggling
- In for a Penny, or: If You Disapprove of Investment Migration, Why Do You Approve of High-Skilled Migration?