Once a narrow, largely placid legal backwater, citizenship has become a dynamic policy vehicle in Europe and North America for promoting the political incorporation of immigrants. The Migration Policy Institute will host a citizenship symposium to examine immigrant civic and political participation, the notion of local voting rights for noncitizens, the concept and practice of dual citizenship, and the role of citizenship in immigrant integration.

Please join us for a discussion of these issues with several of the leading citizenship experts from North America and Europe, along with key policymakers for a comparative discussion of citizenship policies.

If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Dixon via email at events@migrationpolicy.org or by phone at (202) 266-1929.

Speakers:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs and Dean of the Law Center, Georgetown University

Andrew Griffith, Director General for Citizenship and Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Randall Hansen, Research Chair on Migration, University of Toronto

Michael Jones-Correa, Professor of Government and Director of the American Studies Program, Cornell University

Donald Kerwin, Vice President of Programs, MPI

C. Joy McDowall, Manager, Regulatory Policy, Regulation & Compliance Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand

Hiroshi Motomura, Professor of Law, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law

Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, MPI

Noah Pickus, Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University

Robert C. Smith, Associate Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY)

Margaret Stock, Professor of Law, US Military Academy