Category: Immigration
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The Bishops are wrong: there’s nothing immoral about controlling our borders
26 May 2023. Nigel Biggar for The Telegraph. The end is just and the means, while severe, are not immoral Earlier in May, the Archbishop of Canterbury described the Government’s illegal migration bill as “morally unacceptable”. This week, he advanced his opposition to the bill’s proposal to remove illegal cross-Channel migrants to Rwanda, by tabling…
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Whatever happened to the Canaanites?
Nigel Biggar has published an article in a special issue of Studies in Christian Ethics 35, no. 1 (November 2021). The issue features essays gathered around the theme ‘Truth, lies, and Christian ethics’. Biggar’s article is titled ‘Whatever Happened to the Canaanites? Principles of a Christian Ethic of Mass Immigration’ (pp. 127-139). The open access article can…
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What Should Be Done About UK Immigration?
A McDonald Centre Research Colloquium On February 10, 2017, the McDonald Centre hosted a one-day colloquium at Christ Church, Oxford, on the ethics of immigration in the UK. The event assembled some of the country’s leading experts on the philosophical, theological, and political philosophy of immigration to discuss the difficulties involved in formulating migration policy.…