caa a22 4500 606238492 CHVBK 20210128101258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9522-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9522-z Rajendra Tisha Department of Theology, Loyola University Chicago, Crown Center 300, 1032 W. Sheridan Road, 60660, Chicago, IL, USA aut The Rational Agent or the Relational Agent: Moving from Freedom to Justice in Migration Systems Ethics [Elektronische Daten] [Tisha Rajendra] Most accounts of immigration ethics implicitly rely upon neoclassical migration theory, which understands migration as the result of poverty and unemployment in sending countries. This paper argues that neoclassical migration theory assumes an account of the human person as solely an autonomous rational agent which then leads to ethics of migration which overemphasize freedom and self-determination. This tendency to assume that migration works as neoclassical migration theory describes is shared by political philosophers, such as Joseph Carens, Michael Walzer, and David Miller. This paper argues that all three philosophers incorrectly frame migration as a contest between the freedom of the migrant and the communal self-determination of the political community. Migration systems theory is presented as a theory that draws upon a relationally embedded understanding of autonomy in order to begin to develop a migration systems ethics. This paper concludes by arguing that the central ethical category for an ethics of migration is not freedom or self-determination, but justice-in-relation. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Immigration nationallicence Migration nationallicence Autonomy nationallicence Justice nationallicence Relationality nationallicence Rationality nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 355-369 1386-2820 18:2<355 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9522-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9522-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rajendra Tisha Department of Theology, Loyola University Chicago, Crown Center 300, 1032 W. Sheridan Road, 60660, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 355-369 1386-2820 18:2<355 2015 18 10677