ABSTRACT
The United Nations estimates that three percent of the world's population, or roughly 187 million people, are immigrants. The ability to move away and the ability to move into constitute the right to emigrate and the right to immigrate. The two rights are linked because the right to emigrate entails a right to immigrate—one cannot leave one country without being able to enter another country. The causes of displaced people means that people travel within their own country and in some cases seek asylum from other states. Economic refugees who are fleeing starvation to live in a country that can provide them some way to stay alive are seeking a level-one basic good. Political refugees who are fleeing a tyrannical regime that does not allow basic human rights are seeking a level-two basic good. The good at stake on the table of embeddedness is a liberty right—a level-two basic good.
