SGS Dean’s Lecture: "Immigrants - Why The World Needs Them"

Immigration divides our globalising world like no other issue. We are being swamped by bogus asylum-seekers and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our benefit systems abused and our way of life destroyed – or so we are told.

Philippe Legrain, author of the critically acclaimed Open World, looks beyond the headlines to ask: Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in Europe, North America and Australasia? Can anything be done to keep them out? Should we even be trying?

This is a free public lecture, to be held in the Copland Theatre, Economics and Commerce building (next to the Baillieu Library) University of Melbourne, Parkville.

All welcome. Please email Kylie Gillman (details below) to indicate your interest in attending.

Parking is available on campus after 5pm for $4. Please note that $2 coins are required to operate the boom gates.