Discussions of migration are becoming increasingly dystopian. Based upon either exclusion or exploitation, new neoliberal arguments for open borders are not about freedom, but institutionalised domination.
Open borders where migrants agree to be come essentially slave labor. The new slavery. Such a deal.
....a new ‘economic’ argument has entered the debate. Recently put forward by Chicago University law professor Eric Posner and economist Glen Weyl, and pitched to the World Bank, this is a ‘pro-slavery’ argument for the free movement of unfree labour. An echo of their argument is heard in the suggestion by Italian interior minister, Algelino Alfano, that migrants should be made to work for free....Wouldn't you know. University of Chicago stuff. You have to read it to believe it.
Maybe they should run it by Pope Francis and see what he thinks.
OpenDemocracy
Capitalist dispossession and new justifications of slavery
Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood
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Maybe he would agree with his metal-loving, faithless predecessors:
http://doctrineofdiscovery.org/index.htm
"Papal Bulls of the 15th century gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they "discovered" and lay claim to those lands for their Christian Monarchs. Any land that was not inhabited by Christians was available to be "discovered", claimed, and exploited. If the "pagan" inhabitants could be converted, they might be spared. If not, they could be enslaved or killed. "
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