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As the global market place widens, barriers to the legal movement of people remain high. From Australia to Austria, public worries that immigrants add to crime and welfare fraud have dominated politics. We assess the arguments - moral, cultural and economic - for and against opening borders. Speakers include: Nigel Harris, author of Thinking the Unthinkable: The Immigration Myth Exposed; Jeremy Harding, Deputy Editor, London Review of Books and author of The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate; David Coleman, reader in demography, Oxford University; Zrinka Bralo, Bosnian journalist and executive director of a charity for refugees and migrants; Diane Coyle, from Enlightenment Economics, author of Paradoxes of Prosperity. In the chair is Frances Cairncross, Management Editor at The Economist.