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5 - Nationalism and immigration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Chaim Gans
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Tel-Aviv University
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In Chapter 4 I argued that historical rights as rights to formative territories could serve as a basis for determining the location of national self-determination for the purpose of restoring past states of affairs, if there are empty territories within which this could be done. If this claim is correct, then the state that has jurisdiction over these territories should allow some or all the members of the national group in question to immigrate to these territories. However, such cases are very rare, and thus do not require further discussion of the issues of nationalism and immigration. Another more central issue, due to which further elaboration is urgently required, is the right to national self-determination, which is the subject of Chapter 3. If one acknowledges the right to national self-determination, whether it is interpreted under its statist conception or under its sub- and inter-statist conception, then one is in effect subscribing to a view that raises questions concerning the immigration rights of members of national groups to the state within which their group enjoys self-determination. This is so because if people's freedom, identity and endeavour-based interests in their culture justify their nation's right to self-determination, it seems that, at least prima facie, these interests could also justify attributing some weight to people's culturally based desires to immigrate to the state in which this right is implemented.

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Print publication year: 2003

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  • Nationalism and immigration
  • Chaim Gans, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: The Limits of Nationalism
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490231.006
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  • Chaim Gans, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: The Limits of Nationalism
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490231.006
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  • Nationalism and immigration
  • Chaim Gans, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: The Limits of Nationalism
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490231.006
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