The Mending Wall: Immigration and Human Rights in Perspective

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What does good immigration policy look like? How do we reconcile the prerogatives of states to control immigration without infringing on the rights of immigrant and refugee communities? Can we establish immigration laws that are in line with international human rights standards and that ensure a people’s continued access to their cultural heritage?

Borrowing its title from Robert Frost’s famous poem which suggested that “good fences make good neighbors,” this panel of interdisciplinary writers and scholars delves into the controversy and complexities related to Arizona’s recent immigration law, SB 1070, including Portland City Council’s subsequent resolution condemning the law as well as the larger historical and international human rights dimensions of the issue.

Moderated by Daniel J. Tichenor (Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon) who has published extensively on immigration and national identity, and is the author of the forthcoming Faustian Bargains: The Origins and Development of America’s Illegal Immigration Dilemma (University of Michigan Press); Elizabeth Hovde, editorial columnist for The Oregonian; Juliet Stumpf (Associate Professor of Law at Lewis and Clark College) whose research focuses on the intersections between immigration law and constitutional, criminal, national security, civil rights, and employment law; and from the Netherlands, Cas Mudde (currently Nancy Schaenen Scholar at The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and visiting associate professor at the department of political science of DePauw University) author of the forthcoming Defending Democracies: Liberal Democracies and the Extremist Challenges of the 21st Century.

This project was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH’s grant program.

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