Chris Bertram/ Emily Dugan/ Matthew Gibney/ Madeleine Sumption
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Most people would agree that we have a right to leave our country of origin. But since leaving one country usually means arriving in another, do we also have a right to immigrate? If so, how can this be reconciled with a state’s apparent right to exclude? Our panel of philosophers and migration experts discuss these and related questions.
Speakers
Chris Bertram
Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol
Emily Dugan
Social Affairs Editor, The Independent & Author, Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain (Icon, 2015)
Matthew Gibney
Professor of Politics and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
Chair
Madeleine Sumption
Director of the Migration Observatory
Image credit: The Preiser Project, ‘The Expat’, License cc by 2.0
Recorded on 6 October 2015 at the LSE
