Visiting Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of Law
Professor, University of Colorado Law School
Wednesday, March 23 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET Via Zoom
Citizenship has contradictory impulses: it can foster inclusion but also perpetuate exclusion for noncitizens and Asian, Latinx, and other racial minorities perpetually seen as foreigners. In this lecture, Ming Hsu Chen discusses her research on the regulatory barriers that prevent Asian and Latinx communities from participating equally in the American political process, such as voter identification laws and restrictions on noncitizen political participation, as well as proposals to contract political representation of noncitizens in Congress and state legislatures. Ultimately, she shows how regulations instead could bolster equality in politics for Asian and Latinx communities while also transforming electoral outcomes and enhancing substantive democracy.
Organized by the Penn Program on Regulation.
Co-sponsored by the Penn Law Office of Equity and Inclusion and Penn’s Asian American Studies Program, Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration.
