Domestic Mobility and Relational Equality
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Patti Tamara Lenard
Abstract
My focus is on how democratic states restrict, constrain and shape the movement of citizens and residents across their territory. My central claim is that a focus on equal relations between them, as relational egalitarians emphasize, can show where restrictions on movement are permissible or problematic. Over the course of the discussion, I offer many examples, as well as four cases in which I assess specific movement-related policies for whether they are violations of relational equality: exclusionary zoning, eminent domain, resettlement of isolated communities and no-fly lists. These analyses are neither extensive nor exhaustive, but I hope they are sufficient to demonstrate that relational egalitarians should be concerned with whether citizens and residents can move freely and to indicate how a relational egalitarian can evaluate movement-related policies as to whether they support or undermine the ability of citizens and residents to interact as social equals.
Acknowledgements
I presented a very early version of this article to the University of Oslo’s Ethics of Migration Workshop in 2016 – I owe thanks to many people who were present there, for helpful comments and questions, especially: Kim Angell, Kieran Oberman, Chris Armstrong, Sarah Fine, Cara Nine, and Nils Holtug. I owe thanks as well to three very helpful reviewers, and to the editor of this Special Issue, Daniel Sharp.
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