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AALS 2025 Immigration Section Sessions

By immigrationprof
[Updates to schedule and RSVP links here]
 
AALS Annual Meeting registration is now open. We encourage you to come to SF and attend these immigration section events, which are stacked from Thursday evening to Saturday:
  • Thursday, January 9 (5:30 pm) Reception at Asian Art Museum (Save the Date; RSVP link)
  • Friday, January 10 Main panel (12:50 pm): Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Immigration Policy
  • Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA)
  • Maritsa Poros (CUNY Graduate School)
  • Ayelet Shachar (UC Berkeley)
  • Cori Alonso-Yoder (George Washington)
  • Moderator: Allison Brownell-Tirres (DePaul)
  • Saturday, January 11 (8:00 am) New Voices in Immigration Law
    • Nicole Miller (Drake), Accommodating Childhood in Immigration Removal
    • Aadhithi Padmanabhan (Maryland), Surprise Deportations
    • Rick Su (UNC), Rose Villazor (Rutgers), Deep Gulasekaram (Colorado), Rise and Fall of Sanctuary
    • Bijal Shah, Procedural Discretion (Boston College)
    • Allison Brownell-Tirres (DePaul), Noncitizen Rights and legal status in 1970s
    • Mary Yanik (Tulane), Immigration Protection as Labor Enforcement
    • Saturday, January 11 (9:30 am) Field trip to Angel Island (limited spots, requires AALS pre-registration) [UPDATED DATE 10/21/2024 – more details below]
    As you can see, we have scheduled our events over an action packed 48 hours to make it easier for people to come for the full complement of programs.
     
    Regards,
     
    Ming Hsu Chen (chair, on behalf of the executive committee)
    Kathleen Kim (chair-elect)
    Michael Kagan
    Pratheepan Gulasekaram
    Fatma Marouf
    —
     
    ANGEL ISLAND FIELD TRIP PLANNING
     
    For those of you attending the AALS annual conference in San Francisco in January 2025, the Immigration Section is offering a field trip to Angel Island. For your planning, we provide the revised date and agenda for the field trip below. Please note that there is a reduced ferry schedule during winter months and inclement weather may cause the cancellation of the field trip. 
     
    Saturday January 11th
    9:30am: Field trip attendees meet in conference hotel lobby and walk to Ferry Building together. 
    WIP session attendees should come to hotel lobby as quickly as possible after their session.
    10:15am: Board ferry to Angel Island.
    10:45am: Arrive at Angel Island.
    11:00am: Our tour guide greets us and takes the group on a one mile walk through Angel Island.
    12:00pm – 2:30pm: Our tour guide leads and provides historical education on the barracks, museum, and additional structures.
    2:30pm: Walk back to ferry.
    3:20pm: Ferry returns to Ferry Building.
    3:50pm: Ferry arrives at Ferry Building. Walk back to hotel.
     
    Round trip ferry tickets cost $31 which can be purchased at the Ferry Building or any Muni station. 
     
    This field trip can accommodate 30 people. Attendees should bring food and water with them, which our tour guide can safely store in the kitchen located at Angel Island. Masks are required indoors. Prepare for cool weather and wear walking shoes.
     
    Our tour will be conducted by the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF), a 501c3 that works closely with state parks to facilitate access and education about Angel Island. 
     

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