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In debating the politics and ethics of immigration, it is not uncommon to come across a version of the “social trust argument.” The basic form of the argument is always the same. It contends that a political community cannot survive without social trust, and that social trust cannot be achieved or maintained without a political community having discretionary control over immigration.
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Mendoza, J.J. (2016). Latino/a Immigration: A Refutation of the Social Trust Argument. In: Bauder, H., Matheis, C. (eds) Migration Policy and Practice. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137503817_3
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