4/8 Conference: Intersectional Approaches to Immigrant Justice

Registration is  now open for Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law’s April 8 symposium–The Road to Abolition: Intersectional Approaches to Immigrant Justice.

For its second annual symposium, the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) will explore abolition as the path to immigrant justice. As immigration detention and deportation continue to perpetuate global inequality, entrenched colonialism, and racial injustice, a movement to abolish ICE and shift government resources to housing, health care, and education continues to grow. The symposium will focus on organizing efforts to end immigration enforcement and detention, the intersection of racial justice and abolitionist movements, and lessons learned in abolitionist work beyond the immigrant rights movement.

Topics include:

• Immigration Reform Requires Changing Our Paradigm for Racism and Movement Building by Ian Haney López, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
• The View on the Ground: Organizing for Immigration Abolition
• Breaking Down Silos: Perspectives on Abolition

-KitJ