1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Moore Hall 3340

Book Event on: Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People,

New York University Press, 2019

Co-Editors, Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio

 April 4, 2019 – 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Reading Room 3320 of Moore Hall

UCLA campus

Program:

Introduction 

Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio

Panel I: In and Through: Navigating Enforcement and Legal Systems (1:00-2:20 p.m.)

José Ortiz-Rosales and Kristen Jackson – “Entering Multiple Systems”

Susan Bibler Coutin – “The Post-1996 Immigrant Underclass”

Nina Rabin and Cecilia Menjívar – “Youth on Their Own”

Susan J. Terrio – “Immigration Courts”

Dana Leigh Marks – “Judging Children”

Commentary: Ignacia Rodriquez Kmec, National Immigration Law Center 

Discussion

Break: 2:20-2:45 p.m.

Panel II: Out: Responding to “Illegality” (2:45-4:00 p.m.)

Lauren Heidbrink – “Youth Negotiate Deportation”

Carolina Valdivia – “Youth Activism”

Deborah A. Boehm – “Dreaming Across Borders”

Maggie Salas-Crespo – “Still Dreaming”

Commentary: Camila Alvarez, CARECEN 

Discussion

Bios:

Camila Alvarez is Managing Attorney of the Deportation Defense Unite at CARECEN (Central American Resource Center)in Los Angeles.

Deborah A. Boehm is Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies/Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Susan Bibler Coutin is Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Lauren Heidbrink is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Human Development at the California State University at Long Beach.

Kristen Jackson is a Senior Staff Attorney at Public Counsel in Los Angeles, and has taught the Asylum Clinic at UCLA School of Law for the past decade.

Cecilia Menjívar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is a Professor in the Department of Sociology.

José Ortiz-Rosales is a Social Worker at Public Counsel in Los Angeles.

Nina Rabin is Director of the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic at UCLA School of Law.

Ignacia Rodriquez Kmec is Immigration Policy Advocate at the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles.

Margarita Salas-Crespo is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, with degrees in Anthropology and Women’s Studies.

Susan J. Terrio is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and French Studies at Georgetown University.

Carolina Valdivia is a doctoral student and Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.