Justice for Denizens

Author: Johan Olsthoorn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781041282631

Published In: March 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The legal rights of a person within a state usually depends on their migration status. Many states across the world deny non-citizen residents or ‘denizens’ certain political, socio-economic, and cultural rights granted to every citizen alike. This book tackles pressing moral questions raised by legal rights-differentiation by citizenship status by drawing on the ethics of migration, citizenship, multiculturalism, refuge as well as on normative theories of law, territory, and settler colonialism.

Egalitarian values, at the heart of liberal democracy, ground a presumption against legal rights-differentiation. Any deviation from legal equality stands in need of justification. What, if anything, could justify legal rights-differentiations along the lines of citizenship? When, if ever, is it morally permissible for states to deny denizens certain legal rights granted to every citizen alike? This book scrutinizes these politically increasingly salient questions from a wide range of perspectives and drawing on recent literature.

This book will be of great interest to philosophers, legal and political theorists, and researchers studying migration studies, philosophy, human rights, law and politics.

This book was originally published as a special issue of 'Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy'.

Justice for Denizens: A Conceptual Map

Johan Olsthoorn

1. Rights Differentiation within the Bounds of Egalitarian Justice

Daniel Sharp

2. Can There Be Special Rights for Some Citizens?

Andreas Niederberger

3. Denizenship and Democratic Equality

Suzanne Bloks and Daniel Häuser

4. Democratic Justice and Status Inequality in Temporary Labor Migration

Mario J. Cunningham Mataros

5. Why Voluntariness Cannot Ground Cultural Rights Restrictions for Immigrants

Eszter Kollar and Helder De Schutter