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And what about Eric the Red and his father, whose “departure from Norway . . 51 Perhaps this is a “push” factor, perhaps even an “involuntary” migration (though the outlawry was presumably voluntary), but it is not the sort of thing that writers using the push-pull model usually have in mind. ”52 Many of the first settlers in the New World must have been driven by such highly individual emotions. Yet this particular example pushes us beyond mere individual psychological eccentricities toward larger cultural variables that escape the push-pull categories.
Nowhere, however, does he tell us how they can be differentiated or why they should be distinguished. 23 Reflection on the two principles that Gibney recommends as rules for immigration policy, the Harm Principle and the Basic Rights Principle (which he calls the HP and the BRP), confirms the suspicion that his balancing act tilts in the direction of significantly more open immigration. The Harm Principle holds, first, that “individuals have a duty not to harm others,” and, second, that “those who have caused harm have a special duty of restitution to the victims of this harm” (80).
This particular people with its particular way of life may have particular moral responsibilities, as well. This, I take it, is the thrust of Beck’s chapters on the declining middle class, and specifically of his long treatment of the ways in which immigration, as in the past, continues to harm black Americans especially. Our first obligations, his argument seems to be, are to the members of our own political community, our fellow citizens, and especially to the poorest and least advantaged among them.