ABSTRACT
Political theory and moral philosophy have long argued that immigration makes questions of justice harder because they prevent the kinds of coherent political communities such theory deems necessary to adjudicate questions of justice. This chapter uses a pair of cases in Queens, NY – the most diverse county in the United States – to argue that the dominant arguments in political theory and moral philosophy are wrong and people can, and often do, mobilise around questions of justice in the heart of diverse, and immigrant-dominant communities. Instead, it argues for recognition of the ways in which all people – immigrants very much included – have multiple identities, and those multiple identities allow for the formation of political communities that do not rely upon shared ethnicity, race or nativity.
