Call for Papers: St. John’s Immigration Symposium

Symposium Call for Participation

Border Patrols: The Legal, Racial, Social, and Economic Implications of United States Immigration Policy

Hosts

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, St. John’s School of Law
The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development, St. John’s School of Law
Co-Sponsors

Education Law Society, St. John’s School of Law
The St. John’s University Committee for Latin & Caribbean Studies
We invite a broad range of participants―including scholars, practitioners, elected officials, activists, community leaders and students―to share a variety of perspectives on this complex and contentious issue in American society. We are especially interested in the constitutional, political, historical, social, economic, racial and other unique legal issues relating to U.S. immigration policy.

View the full Call for Participation

Submission Guidelines
If you would like to participate in the symposium as a panelist or speaker, please submit an abstract of 250 words or less through our online abstract submission form or by e-mail to AaronBarhamJCRED@gmail.com. The abstract submission deadline is December 15, 2011. We will notify all selected panelists and speakers by January 9, 2012. After the symposium, participants will have an opportunity to submit an article to be considered for publication in the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development.

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