Christine Straehle (University of Groningen; University of Ottawa), associate researcher of the Ethics and Politics research axis of the CRÉ, publishes a new article entitled “Migrant Workers, Differentiated Rights, and Relational Equality in Host States” in the Journal of Social Philosophy.

In this article, the author uses the principles of relational equality to argue that the needs of temporary foreign workers cannot be adequately protected by the catalogue of differentiated rights suggested by authors in recent accounts. Differentiated rights do not help protect temporary foreign workers from the arbitrary power of host states, i.e., power exercised without regard for their interests.