Désirée Lim
Education
Professional Bio
Désirée Lim is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute. After completing her PhD in Philosophy at King’s College London, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University. She is a recipient of the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Désirée’s primary research and teaching interests lie in contemporary political philosophy, with a special focus on questions about immigration, discrimination, and global justice. Her first monograph, Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies (Oxford University Press) argues that social equality has a universal scope, and that non-citizens are entitled to be treated as citizens’ social equals. Using this framework, she advances a distinctive critique of skill-selective immigration policies, under which highly-skilled migrants are often favoured over low-skilled migrants. Her second book project, On the Right to the Freedom of Movement, aims to provide a robust and thorough account of the right to free movement, including the circumstances under which it may be permissibly restricted.
She also has strong developing interests in the philosophy of race, social and political epistemology, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.
