This paper will form the basis for the discussion of the chapter on “Parental justice in times of migration and population pressure”, in a book manuscript titled Parental Justice, under contract with Oxford University Press, and is the product of research undertaken for the project on Justice and the Family. An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenthood in a Just Society, sponsored by an ERC Consolidator Grant (Grant number: 648610; Project Acronym: Family Justice)