RT Article
T1 The ethics of return migration and education: transnational duties in migratory processes
JF Journal of global ethics
VO 14
IS 1
SP 54
OP 70
A1 Espíndola Mata, Juan
A1 Jacobo Suárez, Mónica
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1739121880
AB This paper argues that most prominent normative theories on immigration neglect a critical dimension of the migratory phenomenon, a neglect that blinds them to important rights that, under some circumstances, immigrants ought to have as a matter of justice. Specifically, the paper argues that these theories fail to appreciate that the children of immigrant families, regardless of whether they were born in their parents’ country or in the host country, should benefit from educational rights addressing needs that are particular to their situation. These children may be forced to move between these two countries. This situation generates an obligation for both states (‘receiving’ and ‘sending’) to act jointly to provide educational opportunities so that these children are fully conversant with both cultures and in both languages. Put succinctly, then, we argue that since children of immigrant families lack any certainty of permanent residence in the host society owing to the threat of deportation and the precarity of their legal status, host and home societies bear the duty to offer an education that allows them to be functional in both societies.
K1 Ethics of immigration
K1 US–Mexico
K1 Children of immigrants
K1 educational justice
K1 Return migration
DO 10.1080/17449626.2018.1498013