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    The conundrum of immigration in social contract theory
    (Maltepe Üniversitesi, 2017) Ding, Julia; Demirci, Özgür
    The current debate on immigration olten attempts to balance the state's right to sovereignty and the individual's right to free movement across different states. The tension between these two is evident in international law, where the right to emigrate ıs recognized but the right to immigrate is not. This discrepancy has immense practical consequences. Those who emigrate but are unable to immigrate are rendered stateless, a dangerous phenomenon where individuals not only loose their national identity but their "right to have rights"'as Hannah Arendt famously termed. This paper argues that the tension between state sovereignty and human rights is inherent in liberal political thought because of a social contract theory that links a government's legitimacy to its prioritization of individuals who have formed a "contract" with the government through consent,..