TY  - EJOU
AU  - Wellman, W. Christopher Heath
TI  - Intelligence and Immigration
T2  - Journal of Controversial Ideas

PY  - 2024
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SN  - 2694-5991

AB  - The relative intelligence of prospective migrants likely does little to move the needle on the central issue in the ethics of immigration, namely, whether states are morally entitled to forcibly exclude outsiders. Even so, I argue that varying levels of intelligence may be relevant to a number of theoretically interesting and practically pressing issues. In particular, such variations may in some cases (1) affect the number of refugees a country is obligated to accept, (2) be relevant to the advisability of encouraging refugees to resettle rather than attempting to help them where they are, and (3) have implications for relational egalitarians who are especially concerned with inequalities among fellow citizens.
KW  - immigration
KW  - intelligence
KW  - refugees
KW  - relational egalitarianism
KW  - brain drain
KW  - assimilation
DO  - 10.35995/jci04020014