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Dr. Fabio Rojas makes a case for open borders by examining anti-immigration arguments, and explaining why he thinks they're wrong.
This talk was given as part of "Modern Challenges to Liberty," an IHS summer seminar held online from July 7-12, 2020. To watch other lectures from this seminar, see the playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNeQlRoOOIMlvVmlK7YQBFQlzKH1xukoN
Dr. Fabio Rojas is a Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2003. His main research interest is organizational analysis and its intersections with political sociology. He is author of the book, “From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline” (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and has published in journals such as Social Forces, Rationality and Society, and the Journal of Institutional Economics. He is co-editor of Contexts, a quarterly magazine about society and social behavior from the American Sociological Association.
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Dr. Fabio Rojas makes a case for open borders by examining anti-immigration arguments, and explaining why he thinks they're wrong.
This talk was given as part of "Modern Challenges to Liberty," an IHS summer seminar held online from July 7-12, 2020. To watch other lectures from this seminar, see the playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNeQlRoOOIMlvVmlK7YQBFQlzKH1xukoN
Dr. Fabio Rojas is a Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2003. His main research interest is organizational analysis and its intersections with political sociology. He is author of the book, “From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline” (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and has published in journals such as Social Forces, Rationality and Society, and the Journal of Institutional Economics. He is co-editor of Contexts, a quarterly magazine about society and social behavior from the American Sociological Association.
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The Institute for Humane Studies supports and partners with professors to promote the teaching and research of classical liberal ideas and to advance higher education’s core purpose of intellectual discovery and human progress.
About Us: theihs.org/who-we-are
Twitter: twitter.com/theihs?lang=en
Facebook: facebook.com/InstituteforHumaneStudies
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