Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People

This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist in face of the human suffering caused by border controls and in spite of a global economy where the mobility of goods and capital is combined with severe restrictions on the movement of most of the world?s poor. Alex Sager argues that immigration restrictions violate human rights and sustain unj...