Border-Crossing: Immigration Law, Racism and Justified Resistance

Aside from the case of refugees under international law, are non-citizen outsiders morally justified in unlawfully entering another state? Recent answers to this question, based on a purported right necessity or civil disobedience, exclude many cases border-crossing and fail account for its distinctive political character. I argue that certain non-humanitarian cases, unlawful involves exercise remedial moral resist illegitimate coercive power. The accepts, sake argument, two conventional assumptions among defenders immigration restrictions: states have ‘right exclude’ migrants prima facie duty respect borders. Nonetheless, where law is racist otherwise discriminatory, it violates egalitarian standards at core any authority can plausibly claim over outsiders. In such may be resisted even facially non-discriminatory.