Cross-listed with PHIL408J and PHIL408M. Credit granted only for PHPE408Z or PHIL408M or PHIL408J.

Senior capstone course for the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics major. Immigration is a defining issue of our time, at the heart of political debates across the globe. The key question here is, should nations welcome more migrants or impose stricter border controls? The debates onthis question often focus on empirical questions: how immigration affects wages, economic growth, and social well-being. But immigration also raises fundamental ethical and normative questions: Do states have a moral right to close their borders? Is there a human rightto migrate?Or perhaps individuals have a moral duty to stay or to leave their home country? In this course we will explore the rich philosophical literature from recent decades on these and on related questions.