The Center for the Study of American Democracy's most recent biennial conference in March 2025 took on the vexing topic of immigration. Immigration experts and legal and policy practitioners will help us better understand the issues behind the headlines.
The conference title — "A Nation of Immigrants?" — echoes the title of John F. Kennedy's 1958 pamphlet, later published as a book posthumously in 1964, that celebrated our immigrant heritage and encouraged the United States to reopen its doors to immigrants, an opening we've seen since the immigration act of 1965. The question mark in the title poses the question: are we still a nation open to immigrants? Fifteen scholars, journalists, lawyers and policy advocates joined us to explore that very question.
Learn more about the conference and read reports writing by CSAD student associates.
Oden Hall, 311-313
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio 43022
Conference Archive
- A Nation of Immigrants? (2025)
- What’s My Dollar Worth? Inflation’s Causes, Consequences and Cures (2023)
- Free Speech and Civil Discourse (2017)
- The Expectation of Privacy (2016)
- The Politics of Economic Inequality (2014)
- Should America Promote Democracy Abroad? (2012)
- The Future of Political Parties (2010)