Often when discussing immigration, especially to America, it is described as moving in pursuit of expanded opportunities. In Taxi! and The Transplanted this narrative is complicated as Mathew (2005) and Bodnar […]

In his article “How Coronavirus is Shaking Up the Moral Universe”, John Authers discusses how utilitarianism could shape COVID response by highlighting Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy. Authers calls thi […]

In stating that “workers have no country” Marx suggests that workers have more in common as a class than they do as citizens of a nation. For example, an industrial worker in England and a shipping worker in Ind […]

In his chapter “Normative and Theoretical Foundations on Human Rights” Anthony Langlois sets out to explain the philosophical and political frameworks which have established conceptions of individual human rig […]

In The Condition of the Working Class in England and in “What’s Good About Slums” both Engels and Glaesner set out to describe what drives poor people to move to cities, the conditions of the urban poor, and t […]

The assigned resources for this week examine the work of the Young Lords and the more recently organized Red Nation in liberatory projects. Notably, both groups represent people who have experienced large-scale […]