Accepting refugees is not giving a gift, it's respecting rights: Michael Ignatieff
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In a time of growing authoritarianism and a decline in democratic institutions, it is a greater challenge to accept that despite the language of “us and them,” we have obligations to strangers both inside and outside our borders. Michael Ignatieff talks to Nahlah Ayed about citizenship, moral values, the language used for rights of refugees and what we still owe each other.
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