Princeton 55PLUS will address the questions of immigrant rights in the post-9/11 era at its monthly meeting Thursday.
Dan Tichenor, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, will give a talk titled "An Uneasy Nation of Immigrants: Admissions and Rights after 9/11."
The meeting, at 10 a.m. the Jewish Center of Princeton, 435 Nassau St., is free and open to the public.
The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermath had a huge effect on policy involving U.S. immigrant admissions and rights.
Mr. Tichenor will place current immigrant issues and developments in a broader historical context, comparing immigration policies and immigrant experiences during earlier national security crises, such as the two world wars, with those of the present. He will also examine the increasingly pivotal role new immigrant voters played in this year’s heated election season.
Mr. Tichenor’s published work includes "Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America," for which he received the American Political Science Association’s 2003 Gladys Kammerer Award for the best book in American national politics. He is currently researching a book on wartime presidents and civil liberties.
In the event of inclement weather and the Princeton Regional School District is closed, the meeting will be canceled.

