In this chapter I advance the view that migrants, refugees and tourists are individuals who move to pursue fundamental interests. Movement across international borders is the common feature in their life projects. I suggest that distinguishing between broader categories of movement, movement out of need, forced movement and movement out of choice, helps us to reflectively grasp the distinction between moral and political arguments about migrants, refugees and tourists. When advanced at the level of public discourse, I call them political arguments; and when in political philosophy, moral arguments. I will suggest ways in which moral arguments are instrumentalised politically, and political arguments moralised—both rhetorical strategies which obfuscate, rather than help our understanding of the complex field of migration and movement processes.