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Normative questions concerning the treatment of immigrants can be approached from various perspectives: consequentialistic; deontological; fairness-based; rectificatory; or similar. In this paper; the implications of the idea of quality of government for the treatment of immigrants are examined. It is argued that an acceptable definition of quality of governance includes a principle of beneficence; which prescribes a beneficial treatment of immigrants whenever laws and policies allow. The principle; which is not novel in itself; is presented in a more specified form and is provided with a philosophical justification.

Quality of government; immigration ethics; principle of beneficence; com- munity principle; immigration policy