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AALS 2025 Immigration Section Sessions [updated 11/25/2024]

[Reposting with registration for immigration section reception. Original posting 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 – Saturday. Conference registration is required to attend official events.
  • Thursday, January 9 (5:30-6:30pm) Off site reception at Asian Art Museum for immigration section requiring RSVP by 12/12/24 (a shuttle will run every 30 min from the conference hotel to the nearby UC Law SF AALS reception)
     
  • 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-Tires (DePaul)
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  • 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 (Boston College), Procedural Discretion
    • Allison Brownell-Tirres (DePaul), Noncitizen Rights and legal status in 1970 
    • 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 and walk from hotel to SF Ferry Building- take note of the changed date / time)
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    Ming Hsu Chen (chair)
    Kathleen Kim (chair-elect)
    Michael Kagan
    Pratheepan Gulasekaram
    Fatma Marouf
    AALS Immigration Section Executive Committee