Citizenship and Global Inequality.

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How should legal systems weigh the needs of immigrants against the needs of the state and its individual citizens? In this course, we join policymakers, legal scholars, and philosophers in tackling difficult questions about society and belonging. Should citizenship be a status that can be earned by immigrants, or should it be primarily distributed as an inheritance at birth by blood or soil? Are the rights of citizens inalienable? Or should citizens regard their legal and political freedoms as privileges that can be forfeited if they infringe on the freedoms of other citizens, violate the laws of their country, or undermine international society through affiliation with anti-state terrorist groups? These are some of the questions that we will examine in this course.