90th Anniversary Event and State of Democracy Lecture: Joseph Carens

The Dispossessed: The Ethics of Refugee Policy

Joseph H. Carens, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Culture, Citizenship, and Community, hich won the 2002 C. B. Macpherson Award, and Equality, Moral Incentives and the Market.  In his latest book,The Ethics of Immigration, Carens illuminates one of the most pressing issues of
our time. Immigration poses practical problems for western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies think about itizenship and belonging, about rights and responsibilities, and about freedom and equality.

This lecture is made possible through a generous gift from the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman fund.