After the Backlash
Reconsidering the Ethics, Politics, and Law of Borders and Migration
May 9-11, 2019
Stephen Macedo and Anna Stilz, Co-Chairs
How, if at all, should we rethink migration policy in light of the backlash against migrants in the US and Europe? Has the backlash revealed genuine but neglected concerns? Can civic nationalist concerns -- special obligations toward fellow citizens, special concern with shared history and culture -- be reconciled with cosmopolitan duties to human beings in dire need outside our borders?
Keynote Presentations
Thursday, May 9, 2019
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
Joseph Carens, Professor, University of Toronto
Reception to Follow
Free and Open to the Public
Panel Presentations
Friday, May 10 & Saturday, May 11
Open to all Faculty, Students, Academic Visitors, and other University and College Affiliates
Friday, May 10, 2019
Breakfast available from 8:30 AM
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome and opening remarks of Anna Stilz and Stephen Macedo
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Session 1: Rafaela Dancygier and Justin Gest
Rafaela Dancygier | Immigration and Leftist Dilemmas
Justin Gest | Demographic Change and Backlash
- Coffee Break -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Session 2: Peter Skerry and Liav Orgad
Peter Skerry | Taking Backlash Seriously: the Revolt against Neoliberal and Multicultural Elites
Liav Orgad | The Ethics of Majority Rights (OR “How to Deal With Declining Majorities?”)
- Lunch -
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Session 3: Leah Boustan and Paul Frymer
Leah Boustan | Lessons from Closing the Border in the 1920s
Paul Frymer | Deportation as Public Policy
- Coffee Break -
3:15 PM - 5:30 PM | Session 4: Kieran Oberman, Anna Stilz, William Galston
Kieran Oberman | Backlash or the Backlash Argument: Which Should We Fear the Most?
Anna Stilz | Mitigating Conflicts of Interest in Migration
William Galston | Rethinking US Immigration Policy after the Backlash
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Breakfast available from 8:45 AM
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Panel 5: Javier Hidalgo and Chandran Kukathas
Javier Hidalgo | The Bias Argument against Immigration Restrictions
Chandran Kukathas | Immigration and Freedom
- Break -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel 6: Michael Blake and Stephen Macedo
Michael Blake | Migration in a Time of Darkness: Liberal Justice, Borders, and the Practice of Philosophy
Stephen Macedo | Immigration, Populism, and Premature Cosmopolitanism
- Lunch and Close -
Presented by the University Center for Human Values, the Program in Law and Public Affairs, the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Migration in the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.