Immigration and Innovation Policy

Abstract

We are in the age «of immigration». This article makes an historical and bibliographical detailed review of the political studies that have been produced on immigration. This overview follows two basic lines of the current debate: the institutional and the normative approaches, and two theoretical frameworks: the liberal and the democratic focuses. At the end, the author defends the need for opening a line of research dealing with a theory of justice which includes immigration. In this respect, he proposes to discuss in-depth the two criteria that actually orientate the political treatment of immigration: the nationality and market criteria.