Joseph Carens

Joseph H. Carens is a professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests are mainly focused on contemporary political theory, especially on issues related to immigration and political community. Carens is an advocate of open borders, and an ethical theorist in the field of immigration.[1]

Carens was educated at the College of the Holy Cross, where he received his B.A., summa cum laude, in 1966. He then attended Yale University, where he obtained an M.Phil. in religious studies in 1970 then a second M.Phil. in political science in 1972. In 1977, he received his Ph.D. from Yale.

Partial bibliography

  • The Ethics of Immigration (Oxford, 2013)
  • Immigrants and the Right to Stay (Boston Review/MIT, 2010)
  • Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness (Oxford, 2000)
  • Equality, Moral Incentives, and the Market: An Essay in Utopian Politico-Economic Theory (Chicago, 1981)
  • Democracy and Possessive Individualism: The Intellectual Legacy of C.B. Macpherson (Editor) (SUNY Press, 1993)
  • Is Quebec Nationalism Just? Perspectives from Anglophone Canada (Editor) (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995)

Further reading

  • Hoesch and Mooren (2020), Between Aliens and Citizens. An Outline of Joseph Carens’s Political Philosophy. In Joseph Carens: Between Aliens and Citizens, Springer Cham, 3-14
  • Carens (2000), Culture, Citizenship and Community, A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness, Oxford University Press Inc, New York

References

  1. ^ Gibney, Matthew (31 October 2014). "The Ethics of Immigration. By Joseph H. Carens". Migration Studies. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016.
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