 Kymlicka’s distinction between national minorities and immigrants has been criticized by Choudhry, who writes that “in the majority of cases the decision to immigrate is not free” (2002: 64) due to entrenched features of the global economy and other factors beyond the control of immigrants. But Patten defends a qualified form of Kymlicka’s distinction, arguing that, in light of the benefits received by immigrants and a moral prerogative that states enjoy to pursue their own national projects, “a modest prioritizing of the claims of national minorities over those of immigrants is reasonable and permissible” (2014: 295–96).