Citizenship Discrimination and Global Inequality
Tue 4/29/2025 • 1PM - 2:30PM PDT
Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)
Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences
Speaker: Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Why are citizens of some countries so much richer, on average, than citizens of other countries? Citizenship itself may be one of the key explanations. At the same time as new methods of extraction and productivity have generated vast wealth over the last two centuries, countries have hoarded this wealth by discriminating against non-citizens, limiting political rights and economic claims and reshaping inequality on a global scale.
This talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will be served.