BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Immigration and Freedom - Professor Chandran Kukathas\, LSE DTSTART:20180126T173000Z DTEND:20180126T183000Z UID:TALK72677@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Janet Gibson DESCRIPTION:Restrictions on the movement of people to the countries develo ped west are often defended on the grounds that it is necessary to protect the liberal democratic values that might otherwise be undermined by uncon trolled immigration. Pre-eminent among these are the values of freedom and equality. More careful examination\, however\, suggests that the threat t o these values comes not so much from immigration as from efforts to contr ol it. Though it might appear that immigration restrictions are controls o n would-be immigrants\, they are in fact\, to a very significant degree\, controls on citizens—controls not on outsiders but on insiders. The more vigorously immigration control is pursued\, the more surely is the freedo m of people within a society compromised. This lecture elaborates of the w ays in which this is true\, and considers the question of whether immigrat ion control might be warranted nonetheless because of the benefits it brin gs in spite of these costs that come with it.\n\nBiography\n\nChandran Kuk athas holds the Chair of Political Theory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He previously taught at the University of Utah\, the University of New South Wales (at the Australian Defence For ce Academy)\, the Australian National University\, and Oxford. He was also a visiting professor in the departments of Philosophy and Political Scien ce at the National University of Singapore from 2009-2014. He is the autho r of a number of books including Hayek and Modern Liberalism (Oxford Unive rsity Press 1989) and The Liberal Archipelago (Oxford University Press 200 3). He is currently working on a book entitled Immigration and Freedom. LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR