Great way to reflect on ethical and political issues related to immigration

My Take

In Papers, Please, you play a border patrol agent that inspects people’s immigration documents. If you let someone in with invalid documents, you might lose part of the income needed to support your family. Denying entry to someone with valid documents will also cost you. Papers, Please makes you think about all sort of ethical and political issues related to immigration/security and might work as a great teaching tool. For example, do you deny entry to a war refugee because his documents expired a few days ago, knowing he could be killed as a result? Granting him entry with expired documents might cost you your job. The game is incredibly entertaining and very enlightening. I’ve been telling professors of immigration studies to play it. You can download it for $10.