Conference at UC Berkeley: Citizenship Without Borders: Belonging and Exclusion in Immigrant America
Citizenship Without Borders:
Belonging and Exclusion in Immigrant America
Thursday, March 16 – Friday, March 17, 2006 at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
This conference brings together leading scholars, immigrant rights activists and service providers, members of the legal community, faculty and students to evaluate the civic and political participation of immigrants; share stories about the daily practices of citizenship engaged in and experienced by immigrants; and consider the role that citizenship status plays and should play in mediating the legal rights and social benefits that immigrants receive in the United States.
Featured Speakers:
Thursday, March 16, 4:00-5:30pm, Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall:
The Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Lecture on Access to Justice
“The Geography of Citizenship”
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
with Mariana Bustamante, Public Education Coordinator of the national ACLU Immigrant Rights Project and Kevin Johnson, Professor of Law, UC Davis as respondents
Friday, March 17, 12:15-1:45pm, Rm. 140, Boalt Hall:
“The Immigration System Can’t be Fixed Without
Comprehensive Immigration Reform”
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
with Maria Echaveste, Lecturer in Residence at Boalt Hall School of Law, as moderator
Other featured speakers:
Linda Bosniak, Professor of Law, Rutgers University
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside
Linton Joaquin, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center
Jennifer Gordon, Professor of Law, Fordham University
Eliseo Medina, SEIU Executive Vice President
Laurie Olsen, Executive Director, California Tomorrow
Gordon Mar, Executive Director, Chinese Progressive Association, Oakland
Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Michael Jones-Correa, Professor of Political Science, Cornell University
Sheila Chung, Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition
Amagda Perez, Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney, Immigration Law Clinic, UC Davis
Louis De Sipio, Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine
Leoncio Vasquez, member of FIOB
Isabel Garcia, Pima County Legal Defender and Co-chair of Derechos Humanos
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Davis
For more information including the full conference agenda and directions to Boalt Hall go to: http://issc.berkeley.edu/Spring_Conference.htm or call ISSC at 642-0813.
Sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Social Change, the Center for Latino Policy Research, and Boalt Hall School of Lawl’s Center for Social Justice.
The conference is free and open to the public. (No registration required.)