Alison Jaggar, "Philosophy and Migration Justice: Working to Decolonize the Anglophone Canon"
Channel: Center for Global Ethics and Politics
Date: 2023-06-23

Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder

Center for Global Ethics and Politics on March 8, 2023

Philosophy and Migration Justice:
Working to Decolonize the Anglophone Canon

The topic of migration is constantly in the headlines of the United States and many European countries. Migration into these countries is frequently declared a crisis and sometimes framed as an invasion. This talk focuses on how mainstream anglophone philosophers discuss the issue of migration justice. I argue that their discussion is deeply biased by obscuring consideration of the ways in which migrant flows are related to Euro-American colonialism and neo-colonialism. If anglophone philosophers are to develop fairer understandings of migration justice, we must revise our conceptual frameworks and our reasoning methods. At the end of the talk, I indicate an emerging tradition of work by transnational feminist philosophers that is moving discussion of this topic in decolonial directions.

The Center for Global Ethics and Politics is part of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY.