Luis Cabrera is Associate Professor in the School of Government & International Relations at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He has published widely on ethical issues related to migration, poverty and economic integration between nation-states. His most recent monograph, The Practice of Global Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2010), was awarded the 2011 Yale H. Ferguson prize from the International Studies Association-Northeast. For it, he interviewed hundreds of unauthorized migrants, anti-immigration civilian border patrollers, and migration officials in Arizona, parts of Mexico, and Western Europe. His current book project is The Humble Cosmopolitan: Rights, Diversity and Trans-State Democracy. It explores ways of protecting rights and appropriately accommodating diversity within shared rule from the local to the global level. Research for the book has included street interviews with Turkish pro-democracy protesters, with anti-immigration political leaders, and with scores of dalit (former untouchables) human rights activists in India. In this talk, Cabrera will examine ways in which faith communities and their allies have sought to protect migrants, and how some civil society and government actors reject ideas of global citizenship and seek to take direct action against unauthorized immigration in the name of protecting the value of national citizenship.