Law and Society Assocation Annual Meeting – Online Sessions on Citizenship and Migration
LSA Denver 2020 is now LSA Online 2020. There will be 15+ sessions related to immigration and citizenship. The full program book is here and the virtual conference website is here.
A business meeting for CRN2 on Citizenship and Migration will take place 11:15 PT/12:15 MT/1:15 CT/2:15 ET here. Conference registration is not required for this session.
A pre-conference workshop on Wednesday, May 27 will provide a place for WIPs associated with CRN2 Citizenship and Migration. The co-organizers include Shannon Gleeson, Rebecca Hamlin, Lisa Martinez, Edelina Burciaga, and myself. A keynote address will be given by Hiroshi Motomura. Other workshop presenters include Anil Kalhan, Miranda Hallett, David Hasuman & Michael Tan, Sonya Rao, Jill Family, Michael Churgin, Elizabeth Keyes, Shalini Bhargava, Catherine Bowman, Rebecca Hamlin, David Cook-Martin, Blanca Ramirez, Ingrid Eagley, and Shannon Gleeson. (Pre-registration required.)
The main conference from Thursday, May 28 – Sunday, May 31 includes 15 sessions sponsored by CRN2 Citizenship and Migration, including a new books panel (featuring Beth Caldwell, Deported Americans: Life After Deportation in Mexico; Ming H. Chen, Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era; Angela Garcia, Legal Passing; Laura Enriquez, Of Love and Papers; Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump) and AMRs for Dimitry Kochenov’s Citizenship, Cesar Garcia Hernandez’s Migrating to Prison, Shoba Wadhia’s Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Trump Era. (Pre-registration required.)
There is a roundtable session on Challenges to Legal Migration and Citizenship in the Enforcement Era and paper sessions on topics ranging from immigration bureaucracy, to local immigration enforcement, to noncitizen detention, to asylum and refugee law, to accessing immigraiton justice, and to comparative immigration law. Of particular note is a two-part paper session on critical immigration conversations focusing on borders and criminalization. Even more papers concern human rights, globalization, and cross-border migration. (Pre-registration required.)
Award winners related to migration include Jeffrey Kahn, Islands of Sovereignty (Herbert Jacobs Book Prize for the best book in law and society published in 2019), Cesar Garcia Hernandez (honorable mention, John Hope Franklin prize for best article on race, racism, and law), and Nina Vuolajarvi (honorable mention, Law and Society Association article prize).
MHC