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Free Thinking: 2012 Festival

Free Thinking: 2012 Festival: Immigration and the Challenge to Belonging

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Immigration and the Challenge to Belonging

15/11/2012

2012 Festival

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Philip Dodd chairs a debate on immigration at the 2012 Free Thinking festival.

From The Sage Gateshead, Philip Dodd chairs a debate entitled 'immigration and the challenge to belonging', as part of the 2012 Free Thinking festival.

Philip Dodd chairs a debate on Immigration and the Challenge to Belonging at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival. 

What does it mean to belong today? 

Immigration is a highly sensitive and polarising issue that throws up big questions about belonging and identity. Multiculturalism, integration and social division are increasingly part of the political debate. But what impact does immigration have on everyone's sense of national identity? 

Debaters include the director of the influential Demos think-tank David Goodhart, Alp Mehmet, who is Vice Chairman of Migration Watch and one of Britain's first ambassadors from an ethnic minority, and the political activist and head of British Future Sunder Katwala. 

The event is hosted by Night Waves presenter Philip Dodd, and recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012. 

The Free Thinking festival of ideas takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.

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Series of events from the 2012 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'them and us'

Series of events from the 2012 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'them and us': exploring whether the world is becoming a more divided place, and how we define ourselves in relation to others

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