Conference: State/Federal Tensions in Immigration Enforcement: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Boston College Law‘s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy presents State/Federal Tensions in Immigration Enforcement: Looking Back and Looking Forward on April 4, 2017.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Immigration Law. 

Webinar: Including Immigrant and Refugee Families in Two-Generation Programs

The Migration Policy Institute will host a webinar, “Including Immigrant and Refugee Families in Two-Generation Programs: Elements of Successful Programs and Challenges Posed by WIOA Implementation,” on November 17, 2016.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Human Rights; Immigration Law.

Call for Papers: Forced Migration Review

The Forced Migration Review invites submissions for its June 2017 issue, which will include a substantial feature on Shelter in Displacement.

This issue of FMR will cover the variety of shelter and settlement responses found, employed and created by, and created for, displaced people. It will look at the possibilities and limitations of community planning and design in responses to displacement and at examples of good practice, in order to improve understanding of and practice in offering shelter and settlement support for people displaced into whatever circumstances.

Submissions are due February 13th, 2017.  To submit your paper or discuss your topic, contact fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; Human Rights; Immigration Law. 

Conference: Immigration Law & Policy

Georgetown Law, the Migration Policy Institute, and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., present the 13th Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference September 12, 2016, at Georgetown Law.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Law and Public Policy; Immigration Law. 

Conference: Immigration Law & Policy

Georgetown Law, the Migration Policy Institute, and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., present the 12th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference Oct. 29, 2015, at Georgetown.

This year’s featured panel sessions include:

• Today’s Politics and U.S. Immigration Policy
• Examining the Growth of Immigrant Detention and the Future of Detention Alternatives
• Unaccompanied Central American Children: One Year Later
• Exploring the Future of Executive Action

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Immigration Law; Law & Public Policy. 

Conference: Managing Borders – An Interdisciplinary Conference on American Immigration

The Society of Fellow in the Humanities presents Managing Borders: An Interdisciplinary Conference on American Immigration Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The conference will take place on April 3-4, 2015 at Columbia University and will explore the latest scholarship on American immigration, assess the state of the field, and identify new tasks and challenges for immigration scholars. The conference is free and no registration is required.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Immigration Law.

Call for Papers: Illegality Regimes: Mapping the Law of Irregular Migration

Vrije Universitat (VU) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands will be hosting a conference on May 30-June 1, 2013 exploring the ways states are attempting to control irregular immigration through novel legal and policy techniques.

Paper submissions are now being accepted for this conference. Abstracts of no more than 500 words (preferably in .pdf attachment) with a short biography are due no later than February 7, 2013 and may be sent to  submissions@illegality.org

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Topics: Calls for Papers, Immigration Law, International Law

‘Red Hot’ Practice Areas

This law.com article outlines practice areas that are ‘red hot.’   The areas include: regulatory law (health care, financial services, pharmaceutical and energy); government affairs; health care; financial services; energy; labor & employment; immigration; white collar crime; litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

Topics: Energy Law; Health Law; Immigration Law; Labor Law; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Legal Profession; Legal Education

Call for Papers: Globalization & Children (AALS 2011 Annual Meeting)

The AALS Section on Children and the Law will hold a program during the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco on transnational legal issues affecting children. The program is co-sponsored by the Sections of Family and Juvenile Law, International Law, Immigration Law and International Human Rights.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sept. 1, 2010.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Human Rights; Immigration Law; International Law

Children & Immigration Courts

According to a recent New York Times article, “a look at America’s immigration courts shows a system where many children lack legal representation, where frustrated judges find themselves explaining the law to 12-year-olds, often through a translator, and where the government itself has no real measure of the problem.” To read the complete article, go here.

Topic: Immigration Law, News & Events