What Immanuel Kant thinks about immigration

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German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg, where he taught at the university; author of the three Critiques and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.

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1. c. 1795

   Our readingThe right to hospitality is only a right to attempt contact with a land's inhabitants

   Their wordsThis right to hospitality, however—that is to say, the privilege of strangers arriving on foreign soil—does not amount to more than what is implied in a permission to make an attempt at intercourse with the original inhabitants.

   ↗Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1795; M. Campbell Smith translation)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book