This essay was published in the Observer (in a slightly shorter version) under the headline  ‘Europe’s immigration bind: how to act morally while heeding the will of its people’. Europe faces a migrant crisis, but not the one we imagine. The dilemma it faces is this: on the one hand, any moral and workable immigration policy will not, at least for the moment, possess a democratic mandate; on the other, any policy that has popular support is likely to be […]

Categories: Philosophy & Ethics, Race & Immigration • Tags: angela merkel, europe, european union, fortress europe, germany, immigration, migration, morality, refugees, schengen, spain