Beyond Borders: A Roundtable Discussion

What was immigration and migration like before the advent of the modern border regime in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Dr. Stephanie DeGooyer discusses her new book Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization with a panel of experts from the fields of law, literature, and history.

Panel participants

• David Armitage, a British historian who has written on international and intellectual history, most recently Civil Wars: A History in Ideas. He is chair of the history department and Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University.
• Deidre Shauna Lynch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University and author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History and The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning.
• Colin Yeo, an immigration barrister at Garden Court Chambers in the UK and founder of the Free Movement immigration law website. He is author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System.
• Stephanie DeGooyer, an assistant professor of literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is co-author of The Right to Have Rights and author Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization.