Guest lecture on immigration issues in the USA by Tamar Jacoby , President and CEO of Immigration Works USA, New York. The lecture is sponsored by the US Embassy in Copenhagen.

Immigration continues to be a topic of central importance in the US and in Europe alike. In this guest lecture, Tamar Jacoby will share her insights into the on-going immigration debate in the US. The focus will be contemporary and policy-oriented, with reference both to Washington and the states (Arizona and others).

Tamar Jacoby is a leading center-right advocate for immigration reform and a nationally known journalist. She was a senior writer and justice editor for Newsweek, deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Jacoby is author of Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration (Basic Books, 2000), a detailed history of race relations between blacks and whites in the post-civil rights era, and editor of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to be American (Basic Books, 2004), a collection of essays about immigrant integration. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.