Immigration and Citizenship

Sunday, September 20, 2009
First Aired:
Sunday, November 11, 2007

What Is It

What are the effects of immigration on culture in America? Does it promote homogenization, diversity, or both? Cultural enrichment, or assimilation? What challenges does immigration raise? What immigration policies should the American government adopt, with respect to economics, culture, and ethics? How can we justify denying privileges and protections to people based simply upon where they were born? What, if any, restrictions on immigration and citizenship are permissible? John and Ken welcome Noe Lozano, Dean of Diversity at Stanford's School of Engineering, to discuss the challenges and benefits of immigration, in a programrecorded liveat the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA.

Listening Notes

Ken kicks off the show out by pledging allegiance to the justice of John Rawls, the major political philosopher of the last century. He and John then welcome Noe Lozano, Associate Dean of Student & Diversity Affairs at Stanford's School of Engineering, to the show, and he tells them about his beginnings as a migrant farm worker. They then discuss the justifications for national borderlines: why should we care about people moving from Mexico to the US, and not about people moving from Oklahoma to Hawaii?

然后，他们从关于边界的争论转移到关于跨越边界的人的特征的争论。一张牌有什么不同?如果政府代表的是经济邀请，那么政治邀请对移民来说是否重要?在进入最后一部分之前，Ken, John和Noe开始讨论如果没有边界对整个世界来说是更好的，那么各个国家有什么理由进行边界控制。

在最后一部分，Ken, John和Noe继续讨论国家利益在移民问题中的位置，以及一个国家对未来公民的合法要求。民族文化和语言的重要性是什么?对文化和语言的关注会渗透到种族主义中吗?他们在节目结尾讨论了自己对正义、移民和更美好世界的看法。

  • Roving Philosophical Report(Seek to 6:30): Zoe Corneli gets a first person perspective on the shows' topic by interviewing immigrant farm workers and their families in Plainview Valley, California.
  • 60-Second Philosopher(Seek to 51:00): Ian Shoales reviews the history of sovereignty, from the Roman Empire and the Peace of Westphalia to today.

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