Diego Tapia-Riquelme

Article:

1. 2024. Irregular Migrants and the Demands of Relational Equality. Moral Philosophy and Politics. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2023-0121

Dissertation:

My dissertation asks whether the collective right to self-determination can ground the right to control immigration. Against a significant body in the political philosophy of migration, I argue that it cannot. I hold that the right to collective self-determination necessarily involves the exercise of authority on outsiders, as it imposes on them duties of non-interference and duties to follow the law to lawfully migrate and enter a territory. I hold that one way of making such authority legitimate, is for an international organization to determine the principles that govern international migration in a democratic way. I also study the consequences of my argument for long-settled irregular migrants, and disobedience to migration control.

Work in Progress:

Under review:

1. Paper on brain drain and restrictions on emigration.
2. Paper on Tocqueville and Relational Equality.

In preparation:

1. Paper on collective self-determination and the right to control immigration.
2. Paper on the global governance of migration.
3. Paper on disobedience to migration law.
4. Paper on José Victorino Lastarria and the history of liberalism.