| Aliens and citizens: the case for open borders JH Carens The review of politics 49 (2), 251-273, 1987 | 2180 | 1987 |
| The ethics of immigration J Carens Oxford University Press, 2013 | 1769 | 2013 |
| Culture, citizenship, and community: A contextual exploration of justice as evenhandedness JH Carens Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 | 1493 | 2000 |
| Migration and morality: a liberal egalitarian perspective J Carens Free movement: Ethical issues in the transnational migration of people and …, 1992 | 491 | 1992 |
| Equality, moral incentives, and the market: an essay in utopian politico-economic theory JH Carens Joseph H. Carens, 1981 | 329 | 1981 |
| Part III: Migration, politics, and ethics: Realistic and idealistic approaches to the ethics of migration JH Carens International Migration Review 30 (1), 156-170, 1996 | 258 | 1996 |
| Membership and morality: admission to citizenship in liberal democratic states JH Carens | 233 | 1989 |
| Who should get in? The ethics of immigration admissions JH Carens Ethics & International Affairs 17 (1), 95-110, 2003 | 206 | 2003 |
| The rights of irregular migrants JH Carens Ethics & international affairs 22 (2), 163-186, 2008 | 203 | 2008 |
| Immigrants and the Right to Stay JH Carens Mit Press, 2010 | 197 | 2010 |
| Live-in Domestics, Seasonal Workers, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy. JH Carens Journal of political philosophy 16 (4), 2008 | 177 | 2008 |
| The integration of immigrants J Carens Journal of moral philosophy 2 (1), 29-46, 2005 | 176 | 2005 |
| A contextual approach to political theory JH Carens Ethical theory and moral practice 7, 117-132, 2004 | 150 | 2004 |
| Is Quebec nationalism just?: perspectives from Anglophone Canada JH Carens McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1995 | 126 | 1995 |
| Liberalism and culture JH Carens Constellations 4 (1), 35-47, 1997 | 121 | 1997 |
| The Danish cartoon affair: Free speech, racism, Islamism, and integration T Modood, R Hansen, E Bleich, B O'Leary, JH Carens International Migration 44 (5), 3-62, 2006 | 120 | 2006 |
| The ethical dilemmas of international human rights and humanitarian NGOs: Reflections on a dialogue between practitioners and theorists DA Bell, JH Carens Human Rights Quarterly, 300-329, 2004 | 108 | 2004 |
| Immigration and the welfare state J Carens Democracy and the Welfare State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988 | 101 | 1988 |
| Rights and duties in an egalitarian society JH Carens Political theory 14 (1), 31-49, 1986 | 100 | 1986 |
| The Case for Amnesty: Time erodes the state's right to deport. JH Carens Boston Review 34 (3), 2009 | 89 | 2009 |
