The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control

This article interrogates the widely held, but rarely defended, view that states wield legitimate power over potential immigrants when and because they refrain from violating their human rights. I reconstruct a strong argument for this view, which turns on claim about limited migrants. Drawing recent empirical work, show how is inapplicable to border regimes of set wealthy democracies. These are characterized by practice coordinated extraterritorial in way undercuts case holding them minimal legitimacy standard. By participating practice, these significant immigrants. argue exposes novel risk, turn triggers demand satisfaction higher standard legitimation.