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| Date | February 5, 2020 1:30 AM |
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1. (#3) 2/5, DC - House hearing on homeland security priorities in the Arctic - [New Listing]
2. (#3) 2/6, DC - House hearing on DHS use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies - [New Listing]
3. (#3) 2/6, DC - USCIS webinar on the H-1B electronic registration process
4. (#4) 2/7, DC - Discussion on proposals for state-based visas
5. (#5) 2/7, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on democracy and immigrant welfare rights
6. (#6) 2/12, DC - MPI webinar on the differing state approaches to English learner policies under ESSA - [New Listing]
7. (#7) 2/14, Los Angeles - Lecture on explaining state responses to refugees
8. (#8) 2/17-21, San José, Costa Rica - World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
9. (#9) 2/20-22, Charleston, SC - Conference on current trends in immigration research and activism
10. (#10) 2/24, San Diego - Seminar on the White Russian refugees and the development of American immigration and refugee law during the Great Depression
11. (#11) 2/26-28, Arlington, VA - Biometrics for government and law enforcement conference
12. (#12) 2/27, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migrant lives at Israel’s margins
13. (#13) 2/28, Los Angeles - Conference on the Venezuela refugee crisis
14. (#14) 3/2-4, DC - Certificate program course on international migration studies
15. (#15) 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo
16. (#16) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
17. (#17) 3/13, Los Angeles - Book discussion: Refuge Beyond Reach
18. (#18) 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
19. (#19) 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
20. (#20) 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
21. (#21) 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration
22. (#22) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
23. (#23) 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy - [New Listing]
The Northern Northern Border: Homeland Security Priorities in the Arctic, Part II
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 5, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Transportation & Maritime Security
310 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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Witnesses:
Admiral Charles Ray, Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard
Michael Murphy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State
Marie Mak, Director for Contracting & National Security Acquisitions, Government Accountability Office
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About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II
10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 6, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
310 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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Witnesses:
John Wagner, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Charles Romine, Ph.D., Director of the Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Overview of the H-1B Electronic Registration Process: A Webinar for Registrants
2:00-3:30 p.m. ET, Thursday, February 6, 2020
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Tomich Conference Center
111 Massachusetts Ave.
NW, Washington, DC
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Description: During this webinar, USCIS representatives will provide an instructional presentation of the new H-1B electronic registration process in myUSCIS for registrants. Another webinar specifically tailored for attorneys and representatives will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
On Jan. 9, USCIS published a Federal Register notice to formally announce the implementation of the H-1B electronic registration process for fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions.
H-1B cap-subject petitioners, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption, are required to first register prospective beneficiaries electronically with USCIS and pay the associated H-1B registration fee in order to enter the beneficiaries into the selection process for filing an H-1B cap-subject petition for FY 2021.
We are hosting this webinar to allow users to familiarize themselves with the new electronic registration process.
To Register:
Visit our webinar registration page.
Enter your email address and select “Submit.”
Select “Subscriber Preferences.”
Select the “Event Registration” tab.
Complete the questions and select “Submit.”
Once we process your registration for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation email with additional details.
If you have any questions, or if you have not received a confirmation email within two business days, please email us at [email protected].
To request a disability accommodation to participate in this engagement, email us at [email protected] by Feb. 3.
Note to media: This webinar is not for press purposes. Please contact the USCIS Press Office at 202-272-1200 for any media inquiries.
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State-Based Visas: Should States Lead on Immigration?
9:00-10:15 a.m. EST, February 7, 2020
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403
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Speakers:
Gary Herbert, Governor of Utah
Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah)
Moderator:
Alex Nowrasteh, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato Institute.
Description: Reforming the immigration visa system is crucial for the future of the United States. In late 2019, Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), supported by Gov. Gary Herbert, introduced a bill to create a state-?based visa system. Curtis’s proposal adopts a major component of the Canadian immigration system: visas sponsored by individual states rather than the federal government. Under the legislation, the federal government maintains control over admissions, security checks, and other necessary criteria, while the state governments gain power to select individual migrants and regulate their activity within the state. Each state would get an average of 10,000 visas a year: 5,000 guaranteed for each state and an additional number assigned based on population.
With the partisan gridlock that has characterized Washington politics for at least the past two decades, can and should states lead the way on immigration by utilizing a state-?based visa system? Join the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh for a panel discussion with Representative Curtis and Governor Herbert for a policy deep dive on how state-?based visas can reform our nation’s broken immigration system.
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Democracy and Immigrant Welfare Rights
Harvard Center for European Studies
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, February 7, 2020
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Friederike Römer
Postdoctoral Researcher, CRC Global Dynamics of Social Polity, University of Bremen
John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Description: Do countries with stronger democracies grant immigrants more welfare rights than countries where democracy is less developed? Comparative empirical analyses of immigrant welfare rights are often restricted to developed democracies in Europe.
This presentation will discuss democracy as the backdrop and as an explanatory factor for formulating and testing hypotheses on immigrant welfare rights.
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An Uneven Landscape: The Differing State Approaches to English Learner Policies under ESSA
MPI Webinar
2:00 p.m. EST, Wednesday, February 12, 2020
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Description: The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) elevated states’ responsibility to improve English language proficiency for English Learners (ELs), as well as their academic achievement. ESSA’s first stage of implementation required states to develop and submit their plans for executing the new law to the U.S. Department of Education. Highly technical, these state plans are usually difficult for parents and even educators to understand.
The Migration Policy Institute’s (MPI) National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, in partnership with state-based EL organizations and immigrant policy organizations, has endeavored to ensure that state ESSA plans create the optimal conditions for EL achievement.
In its latest work in this area, MPI is releasing the results of its comprehensive review of state ESSA plans for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with a focus on EL policies. The compendium, The Patchy Landscape of State English Learner Policies under ESSA, reveals a picture of great variability across states’ approaches to ensuring accountability for the success of their EL students.
The report’s findings will be unveiled during a webinar on February 12. MPI and EL state policy experts will share how states have approached ESSA implementation, and areas where the law and state efforts to support ELs can be improved.
Speakers:
Julie Sugarman, Senior Policy Analyst for PreK-12 Education, Migration Policy Institute
Kim Sykes, Director of Education Policy, New York Immigration Coalition
Moderator:
Delia Pompa, Senior Fellow for Education Policy, Migration Policy Institute
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Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, February 14, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Lamis Abdelaaty, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Syracuse University
Description: What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This project identifies two puzzling patterns in state responses to refugees: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (the “discrimination puzzle”), and a number of countries have given the UN control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (the “delegation puzzle”). I develop a two-part framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. At the international level, policymakers consider relations with the refugee-sending country. At the domestic level, policymakers consider political competition among ethnic groups. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies.
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World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
Monday-Friday, February 17-21, 2020
Radisson San José
Calle Central y Tercera Av. 15
San José, Costa Rica
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Description: The World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges is themed as A New World on the Move: The Realities of Irregular Mass Migration and the Challenges Facing Asylum and Immigration Judges Background and it is indeed a great opportunity for the Americas Chapter of the IARMJ to focus on the increase of mixed flows of people who cross international borders, whether forced to seek international protection or migrants with other characteristics and profiles.
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Southeastern Immigration Studies Association Conference
Current Trends in Immigration Research and Activism
Thursday-Saturday, February 20-22, 2020
The Citadel
Charleston, SC
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[Conference details are still pending.]
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Legalizing the Impossible Subject: The White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression
12:00-1:30 p.m., Monday, February 24, 2020
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost’s Building, Conference Room 115
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
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Speakers:
S. Deborah Kang, Visiting Scholar, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Associate Professor of History, California State University San Marcos
Description: During the Great Depression, states and localities expelled nearly a half-million ethnic Mexicans from the United States. Yet, in the midst of these removals, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) launched an initiative to reform the hardships surrounding federal deportation policy. In the process, it expanded the legal architecture by which undocumented Europeans could be legalized. Drawing upon a chapter from her second book project, Undocumented Immigration and Immigration Legalization in the United States, 1906-1986, Kang will describe a legalization program created for Russian immigrants and its implications for the development of US refugee and immigration policies.
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Biometrics for Government & Law Enforcement 2020
Wednesday-Friday, February 26-28, 2020
Key Bridge Marriott
1401 Lee Highway
Arlington, VA 22209
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Program agenda:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
8:50 a.m.
Director’s Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
Integrating Biometric Capabilities into the National Counterterrorism Effort
* Biometric technologies of interest to supplement NCTC mission sets
* Efforts to share terrorism information analysis across the CT enterprise
* NCTC vision for biometric utilization: necessary next steps
Pete Hall, Acting Deputy Director, NCTC
10:30 a.m.
Making the Invisible Visible: Utilizing Biometrics to Stop Crime
Biometric data can be used to provide valuable investigative leads and supplement investigative capabilities. The FBI is continuously expanding its use with identity intelligence, to include DNA, fingerprints, video surveillance and iris recognition. Speaker will discuss emerging technologies and ways to leverage these tools.
Tina Delgado, Section Chief, FBI Laboratory
12:30 p.m.
Delta Looks Ahead: Partnering with CBP and TSA
Delta Airlines was the first airline to collaborate with Customs Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration to install the first ever fully biometric terminal in Atlanta. This partnership will create a seamless experience for the everyday traveler.
* Providing smooth and excellent customer experience for travelers using facial recognition
* Cutting down time spent before flights and increase customer interactions with employees
* Enhancing security at airline touch points
Filipe Pereira dos Reis, Regional Director Airport Passenger Cargo and Security, International Air Transport Association UIT
Tuesday, February 27, 2020
8:50 a.m.
Director’s Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
Advancing Biometrics with Customs and Border: What does the future hold?
* Advancing passenger systems and passenger name records with biometrics
* Monitoring security at all modes of transportation, air, land, and sea
* Centralizing access to biometric data Nael Samha, Director Passenger Systems and Biometrics, Customs and Border Protection
9:45 a.m.
How HSI is currently utilizing various types of Biometric and cutting edge technologies to aid in its investigations
* AI/machine learning – S/A Ben Teed
* Rapid DNA/Biometrics – Section Chief Brandon Stiefer
* Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program (BITMAP)
Section Chief Hillary Hodge
11:00 a.m.
Enhancing Security with Multi-modal Authentication Systems
Multimodal biometric systems allow multiple methods of identification which creates stronger security. They are more accurate, reliable, and provide less room for vulnerability against attacks.
* Replacing passwords with multi-modal biometrics to provide convenience and low password management costs
* Increasing verification accuracy to enhance protection
* Combining biometrics with cloud based solutions
11:45 a.m.
NIST continues effort to develop standards, measurement methods and best practices to deliver superior image based biometrics analytics
Craig Watson, Image Group Manager, NIST
1:30 p.m.
Utilizing Biometrics to Maximize Efficiency in Processing and Authenticating Immigration Requests
Brian Broderick, Deputy Chief Identity and information Management Division, Immigration Records Identity Services
2:15 p.m.
Incorporating Behavioral Biometrics in Ensuring Safety and Continuous Authentication
Analyzing the behavior of humans such as their speech, key strokes, gait, signature and cognition is starting to become more acceptable for the everyday consumer. The next step is to use it to maintain top notch security in government and corporations.
* Using behavioral biometrics as a form of user authentication
Tuesday, February 28, 2020
8:50 a.m.
Director’s Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
Operation of Customs and Border Protection Entry/Exit Program
The Customs and Border Protection Entry/Exit Program was established to protect and prevent a threat during transportation.
* Confirming foreign departures from top U.S. airports using facial recognition software
* Completing CBP’s overall goal of enhancing security for public safety
Jeni Best, Acting Director Biometric Exit Strategic Transformation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
10:30 a.m.
The Future of the Department of Homeland Security and Evolving Biometrics
The Department of Homeland Security is moving towards centralizing biometric data. DHS is seeking to expand their data analysis capabilities for biometrics in ways that can change the game forever.
* Moving the Homeland Advanced Recognition to cloud base systems
* Analyzing matched faces, fingers prints, and Irises using HART
* Analyzing the future of biometrics technology and DHS’s utilization
Arun Vemury, Director of Biometric and Identity Technology Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
12:00 p.m.
Using Machine Learning/ AI in Biometrics to Enhance Security Efforts
The combination of both AI and Biometrics will help strengthen security across facilities. Artificial intelligence is a useful tool in both multimodal and behavioral biometrics.
* Reducing the tolerance for error
* Learning and accounting for subtle changes in an individual’s behavior
* Using AI to keep systems up to date and decrease false positives by analyzing things like handwritten or typing biometrics
12:45 p.m.
The US Army and the development of the ‘Next Generation of Biometric Collection’
The US Army is transforming their use of biometrics with a new biometric collection data system. Although the current tool, ‘The Biometric Automated Tool Set’ is still effective, the new system will have enormous benefits.
* Utilizing a light weight and more compact device for face scanning
* Getting DNA and voice biometric systems on a contactless basis without requiring human contact EAB
1:30 p.m.
Vein Biometrics: Are Hand Gestures The New Replacements to Passwords
Vein biometrics is a new and upcoming form of biometric data and is said to be the most secure form yet.
* Using finger vein recognition to access software – all you need to do is wave
* Reducing the risk of hacking threats and stolen biometrics
2:15 p.m.
Helping to combat crime: Using Biometrics to Bring Your Children Home
* Utilizing biometric data and technology to find missing children
* Sharing data and findings across different sectors
Carol Schweizer, Supervisor Case Manager, Forensics National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Colin McNally, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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Indignity and Indignation: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins
12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, February 27, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
Lower Level Library
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Sarah Willen, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
Description: Sarah Willen is the author of Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, and Ukraine. Although the campaign was billed as a solution to high unemployment, it had another goal as well: to promote an exclusionary vision of Israel as a Jewish state in which non-Jews have no place. The deportation campaign quickly devastated Tel Aviv's migrant communities and set the stage for even more aggressive antimigrant and antirefugee policies in the years to come.
Fighting for Dignity traces the roots of this deportation campaign in Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows how policies that illegalize and criminalize migrants wreak havoc in their lives, endanger their health, and curtail the human capacity to flourish. Children born to migrant parents are especially vulnerable to developmental and psychosocial risks. Drawing on nearly two decades of ethnographic engagement in homes and in churches, medical offices, advocacy organizations, and public spaces, Willen shows how migrants struggle to craft meaningful, flourishing lives despite the exclusions and vulnerabilities they endure. To complement their perspectives, she introduces Israeli activists who reject their government's exclusionary agenda and strive to build bridges across difference, repair violations of migrants' dignity, and resist policies that violate their own moral convictions. Willen's vivid and unflinching ethnography challenges us to reconsider our
understandings of global migration, human rights, the Middle East— and even dignity itself.
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Conference on the Venezuela Refugee Crisis
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-3:00 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2020
Haines Hall 352
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
Description: What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This project identifies two puzzling patterns in state responses to refugees: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (the “discrimination puzzle”), and a number of countries have given the UN control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (the “delegation puzzle”). I develop a two-part framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. At the international level, policymakers consider relations with the refugee-sending country. At the domestic level, policymakers consider political competition among ethnic groups. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies.
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-703 - Newcomers to Citizens: Immigrant Integration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday-Wednesday, March 2-4, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: With a record 200 million people living outside their country of birth, immigration is a global phenomenon with profound demographic, economic, social, and political implications for both sending and receiving countries. The debate over immigration law and policy has become increasingly volatile and, in some instances, characterized by misinformation, hate, and xenophobia. Beyond the politics of immigration, genuine challenges to immigrant integration abound. Successful integration of immigrants is critical to the long-term prosperity of host countries that rely on immigrants as workers, consumers, taxpayers, innovators, and entrepreneurs in light of their aging native-born populations and lower birth rates. In this course we will explore integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving countries--such as the United States and Canada and new countries of permanent immigration such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom. We
will raise questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity. We will also discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism, paradigms that challenge an integrationist reading of migration. Using case studies from North America and Europe we will pay special attention to the different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation on their road from newcomers to citizens.
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Discuss the integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving and source countries.
* Recognize questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity.
* Discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism.
* Compare different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation.
Instructor: Jennifer Wistrand
Notes: This course is an open enrollment course. No application is required and registration is available by clicking "Add to Cart." Current students must register with their Georgetown NetID and password. New students will be prompted to create an account prior to registration.
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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Border Security Expo
Wednesday-Thursday, March 11-12, 2020
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
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Conference agenda:
Keynotes:
Ronald D. Vitiello, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Vice Admiral Scott Buschman, Director, Joint Task Force-East
Scott A. Luck, Deputy Chief, U.S. Border Patrol
John P. Sanders, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Panels:
National Vetting Center: What is It? What isn’t It? And How Will It Change the Way We Protect the Homeland?
This session will focus on the National Vetting Center (NVC) and how it will complement the National Targeting Center (NTC). Experts from the NVC, NTC, as well as other members of the Intelligence Community, will discuss why the NVC is critical to the Homeland and next steps. The NVC will be operational at the time of the Expo, enabling the audience and panels to discuss the implementation.
Mass Migration and Unaccompanied Children: Financial and National Security Impacts
This panel will be comprised of experts from ICE Homeland Security Investigations assigned to the U.S., Mexico, and Central America. The panel will discuss the financial impact on the U.S., Mexico, and Central American countries in addressing the issues related mass migration and unaccompanied children attempting to enter the U.S. The panel will discuss human trafficking, organized human smuggling organizations, and national security issues relating to mass migration and unaccompanied children. The panel will provide publicly releasable information relating to “The Caravan” that reached the U.S./Border in November 2018.
Border: Wall – Ports – System(s) – Technology – Infrastructure – Integration – Modernization
Panel will discuss the immediate, near term, and out-year capability requirements, goals, and vision for border operations including infrastructure updates; technology needs, requirements, and planning; initiatives; modernization; and deployments.
Model Port: How Technology, Public-Private Partnerships, and Innovation Will Continue to Change the Way Ports-of-Entry Operate
This panel will be comprised of experts from the federal/local governments and industry. It will highlight what will take place at the POE in Donna, Texas and why it is important to the country’s national and economic security. Technology will play a key role in defining the Model Port. A representative from the City of Donna will explain why this investment is important to the local community. CBP Headquarters staff will address the Donation Assistance Program and why it is necessary to make the Model Port a reality.
A Dialogue with Tenoch Moreno, General Customs Administration, Mexico: Current Operations and Future Thoughts
Procurement: Keeping Industry Current in the Complex Area of Government Procurement and the Mission Needs of Border Operators
This is a must-attend session for those who plan to compete for government contracts. Rules and regulations change frequently, and new requirements are placed on industry. Industry must have a clear understanding of the mission needs of the border operators. Government and industry experts will discuss best practices and explain how to best leverage the many opportunities that support the daily mission of CBP and other agencies. Government panelists will include Senior Executives from CBP procurement and the new office of Operations Support.
Complete conference agenda will be available at end of December.
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Emigration from Paradise: Migration Stories from Interwar Hungary
Harvard Center for European Studies
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
llse Josepha Lazaroms, Lecturer, Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Martin Buber Chair, Goethe University Frankfurt; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Description: In this talk Ilse Josepha Lazaroms will discuss the many variations of emigration and emigration narratives that existed among Jewish communities in interwar Hungary and the Hungarian diasporas. This story is a part of a larger book project entitled Emigration from Paradise: Home, Fate and Nation in Post-World War I Jewish Hungary (forthcoming with Stanford University Press). The manuscript deals with the nature of national attachment and social exclusion in 1920s East Central Europe, and Hungary in particular, as well as the ways in which the personal, social and national traumas of these years reverberate until today. The story, which is set at the point when European civilization plunged into the depths of darkness, focuses on the life-stories of individual Hungarian Jews, thereby bringing the domain of the private into the world of politics, migrations and nation states.
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Author Meets Critics Event: Refuge Beyond Reach
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
Description: In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces how rich democracies have deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Drawing on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks, and interviews with asylum seekers, he finds that for ninety-nine percent of refugees, the only way to find safety in one of the prosperous democracies of the Global North is to reach its territory and then ask for asylum. FitzGerald shows how the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia comply with the letter of law while violating the spirit of those laws through a range of deterrence methods -- first designed to keep out Jews fleeing the Nazis -- that have now evolved into a pervasive global system of "remote control." While some of the most draconian remote control practices continue in secret, Fitzgerald identifies some pressure points and finds that a diffuse humanitarian obligation to help those in need is more difficult for governments to evade than the
law alone.
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The Society of Government Economists Annual Convention
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Friday, March 27, 2020
Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
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[Conference agenda has not yet been announced]
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-715 - Environmental Displacement and Migration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, April 15-17, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: Since the earliest history of humankind, people have migrated in response to environmental change. Today there is growing concern that human-induced climate change, coupled with human settlement patterns, will lead to far greater movements of people; some movement is likely to be voluntary as people look for better opportunities elsewhere in response to changing livelihoods. Some is likely to be involuntary – either anticipatory as people see the handwriting on the wall or reactive as people have no alternative but to move. Some will be spontaneous – in the case of Puerto Rico where hundreds of thousands of people left Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Some will be planned as in the case of Staten Island where people decided to move elsewhere, with government support, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Environmental displacement and migration are not just concerns for future generations; people are already moving. This course will begin with an examination of
environmental risk due to physical processes and then review the state of theoretical knowledge about patterns of migration. The course will then look at the socio-economic, political, security, and demographic factors that affect environmental displacement and migration as well as the consequences for those who move, for the destination communities, for those left behind and for national and international politics
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Understand the relationship between environmental phenomena and socio-economic factors as drivers of displacement and migration
* Analyze the relationship between environmental risk and mobility
* Understand the normative frameworks applicable to different types of internal and cross-border migration and displacement
* Explain basic concepts, such as vulnerability, risk, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation
* Identify different disciplinary approaches to environmental migration and displacement
* Recognize the different international institutional actors
Instructor: Elizabeth Ferris
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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Writing Immigration History in an Age of Fake News
12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Katy Long, Senior Research Associate at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London
Description: In the battle that currently rages over immigrants’ place in America’s future, history has been weaponized. If liberals remain convinced that America is at its very core a ‘nation of immigrants’: a country shaped by a constant flow of newcomers, conservatives insist that preserving historic American identity depends upon keeping an imminent immigrant ‘invasion’ at bay. The reality, however, is a far more less binary history than is suggested by either shrill and repetitive headlines about walls, deportations and looming crisis, or romanticized nostalgia for an era in which ‘huddled masses’ were ushered through ‘golden doors’. At a moment when debates over immigration are at the center of a national political crisis, is there a duty to write about immigration in ways that reach beyond the seminar hall? If so, how can researchers best tell stories about the history of American Immigration in ways which engage an ever-more skeptical and polarized public.
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The Issue of Immigration in America: Moving Beyond Walls and Open Borders
4:30–6:00 p.m., Friday, April 24, 2020
Heinz College – Hamburg Hall A301
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Description: In the United States, the issue of immigration gives rise to controversy and conflict. This issue requires us to wrestle with challenging questions about many things, including:
Who should be admitted to the US as an immigrant (family members, skilled workers, etc.)?
How many people should the US admit as immigrants (should we increase, decrease or keep current levels)?
What rules should guide the immigration process (and how should these rules be enforced)?
How should we address the problems (social, political, and economic) that cause people to migrate from their home countries?
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Annual Conference on European Immigration Law 2020
Monday-Tuesday, April 27-28, 2020
Academy of Europe
Avenue des Arts 56,
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Objective:
The aim of this conference is to provide legal practitioners with an update on recent developments in the EU legal migration system and the mechanisms put in place to tackle labour and skills shortages and to reinforce the attractiveness of the EU for key workers. It will give them the opportunity to discuss current legal reforms with high-level experts in the field.
Key topics: Key novelties in current EU legal migration law.
Schengen Visa Code amendments
Blue Card system for highly qualified workers
Intra-Corporate Transfers Directive in practice
Implementation of the Single Permit Directive
Family reunification of third-country nationals
Integration of third-country nationals in the EU Member States
Strengthening cooperation with non-EU countries: facilitating legal migration pathways
Employment and immigration law post-Brexit
Recent case law of European courts in legal migration matters
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-716 - Immigration Policy
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, May 6-8, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: U.S. Immigration Reform examines the strengths and weaknesses of current US immigration policy and proposals for its reform. The course focuses on the system for legal permanent admissions and temporary admissions (nonimmigrant categories) for work, family reunification, study, and other similar purposes. It also examines policies designed to curb unauthorized migration, assessing the effectiveness of border and interior enforcement activities.
The course also examines policies related to forced migration, including refugee resettlement, asylum and temporary protected status. These issues will be discussed in a comparative framework, analyzing how other countries address issues affecting the United States. The course will examine the role of federal, state and local authorities in implementing policy reforms. It also examines the role of public opinion and various interest groups in affecting policy formulation.
Students will be required to write a 10-page paper, due after the course completion, on a specific reform issue.
Section Notes: U.S. Immigration Reform examines the strengths and weaknesses of current US immigration policy and proposals for its reform. The course focuses on the system for legal permanent admissions and temporary admissions (nonimmigrant categories) for work, family reunification, study, and other similar purposes. It also examines policies designed to curb unauthorized migration, assessing the effectiveness of border and interior enforcement activities.
Instructor: Katharine Donato
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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1. (#3) 2/5, DC - House hearing on homeland security priorities in the Arctic - [New Listing]
2. (#3) 2/6, DC - House hearing on DHS use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies - [New Listing]
3. (#3) 2/6, DC - USCIS webinar on the H-1B electronic registration process
4. (#4) 2/7, DC - Discussion on proposals for state-based visas
5. (#5) 2/7, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on democracy and immigrant welfare rights
6. (#6) 2/12, DC - MPI webinar on the differing state approaches to English learner policies under ESSA - [New Listing]
7. (#7) 2/14, Los Angeles - Lecture on explaining state responses to refugees
8. (#8) 2/17-21, San José, Costa Rica - World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
9. (#9) 2/20-22, Charleston, SC - Conference on current trends in immigration research and activism
10. (#10) 2/24, San Diego - Seminar on the White Russian refugees and the development of American immigration and refugee law during the Great Depression
11. (#11) 2/26-28, Arlington, VA - Biometrics for government and law enforcement conference
12. (#12) 2/27, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migrant lives at Israel’s margins
13. (#13) 2/28, Los Angeles - Conference on the Venezuela refugee crisis
14. (#14) 3/2-4, DC - Certificate program course on international migration studies
15. (#15) 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo
16. (#16) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
17. (#17) 3/13, Los Angeles - Book discussion: Refuge Beyond Reach
18. (#18) 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
19. (#19) 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
20. (#20) 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
21. (#21) 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration
22. (#22) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
23. (#23) 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy - [New Listing]
The Northern Northern Border: Homeland Security Priorities in the Arctic, Part II
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 5, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Transportation & Maritime Security
310 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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Witnesses:
Admiral Charles Ray, Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard
Michael Murphy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State
Marie Mak, Director for Contracting & National Security Acquisitions, Government Accountability Office
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About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II
10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 6, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
310 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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Witnesses:
John Wagner, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Charles Romine, Ph.D., Director of the Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Overview of the H-1B Electronic Registration Process: A Webinar for Registrants
2:00-3:30 p.m. ET, Thursday, February 6, 2020
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Tomich Conference Center
111 Massachusetts Ave.
NW, Washington, DC
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Description: During this webinar, USCIS representatives will provide an instructional presentation of the new H-1B electronic registration process in myUSCIS for registrants. Another webinar specifically tailored for attorneys and representatives will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
On Jan. 9, USCIS published a Federal Register notice to formally announce the implementation of the H-1B electronic registration process for fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions.
H-1B cap-subject petitioners, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption, are required to first register prospective beneficiaries electronically with USCIS and pay the associated H-1B registration fee in order to enter the beneficiaries into the selection process for filing an H-1B cap-subject petition for FY 2021.
We are hosting this webinar to allow users to familiarize themselves with the new electronic registration process.
To Register:
Visit our webinar registration page.
Enter your email address and select “Submit.”
Select “Subscriber Preferences.”
Select the “Event Registration” tab.
Complete the questions and select “Submit.”
Once we process your registration for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation email with additional details.
If you have any questions, or if you have not received a confirmation email within two business days, please email us at [email protected].
To request a disability accommodation to participate in this engagement, email us at [email protected] by Feb. 3.
Note to media: This webinar is not for press purposes. Please contact the USCIS Press Office at 202-272-1200 for any media inquiries.
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State-Based Visas: Should States Lead on Immigration?
9:00-10:15 a.m. EST, February 7, 2020
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403
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Speakers:
Gary Herbert, Governor of Utah
Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah)
Moderator:
Alex Nowrasteh, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato Institute.
Description: Reforming the immigration visa system is crucial for the future of the United States. In late 2019, Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), supported by Gov. Gary Herbert, introduced a bill to create a state-?based visa system. Curtis’s proposal adopts a major component of the Canadian immigration system: visas sponsored by individual states rather than the federal government. Under the legislation, the federal government maintains control over admissions, security checks, and other necessary criteria, while the state governments gain power to select individual migrants and regulate their activity within the state. Each state would get an average of 10,000 visas a year: 5,000 guaranteed for each state and an additional number assigned based on population.
With the partisan gridlock that has characterized Washington politics for at least the past two decades, can and should states lead the way on immigration by utilizing a state-?based visa system? Join the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh for a panel discussion with Representative Curtis and Governor Herbert for a policy deep dive on how state-?based visas can reform our nation’s broken immigration system.
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Democracy and Immigrant Welfare Rights
Harvard Center for European Studies
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, February 7, 2020
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Friederike Römer
Postdoctoral Researcher, CRC Global Dynamics of Social Polity, University of Bremen
John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Description: Do countries with stronger democracies grant immigrants more welfare rights than countries where democracy is less developed? Comparative empirical analyses of immigrant welfare rights are often restricted to developed democracies in Europe.
This presentation will discuss democracy as the backdrop and as an explanatory factor for formulating and testing hypotheses on immigrant welfare rights.
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An Uneven Landscape: The Differing State Approaches to English Learner Policies under ESSA
MPI Webinar
2:00 p.m. EST, Wednesday, February 12, 2020
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Description: The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) elevated states’ responsibility to improve English language proficiency for English Learners (ELs), as well as their academic achievement. ESSA’s first stage of implementation required states to develop and submit their plans for executing the new law to the U.S. Department of Education. Highly technical, these state plans are usually difficult for parents and even educators to understand.
The Migration Policy Institute’s (MPI) National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, in partnership with state-based EL organizations and immigrant policy organizations, has endeavored to ensure that state ESSA plans create the optimal conditions for EL achievement.
In its latest work in this area, MPI is releasing the results of its comprehensive review of state ESSA plans for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with a focus on EL policies. The compendium, The Patchy Landscape of State English Learner Policies under ESSA, reveals a picture of great variability across states’ approaches to ensuring accountability for the success of their EL students.
The report’s findings will be unveiled during a webinar on February 12. MPI and EL state policy experts will share how states have approached ESSA implementation, and areas where the law and state efforts to support ELs can be improved.
Speakers:
Julie Sugarman, Senior Policy Analyst for PreK-12 Education, Migration Policy Institute
Kim Sykes, Director of Education Policy, New York Immigration Coalition
Moderator:
Delia Pompa, Senior Fellow for Education Policy, Migration Policy Institute
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Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, February 14, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Lamis Abdelaaty, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Syracuse University
Description: What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This project identifies two puzzling patterns in state responses to refugees: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (the “discrimination puzzle”), and a number of countries have given the UN control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (the “delegation puzzle”). I develop a two-part framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. At the international level, policymakers consider relations with the refugee-sending country. At the domestic level, policymakers consider political competition among ethnic groups. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies.
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World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
Monday-Friday, February 17-21, 2020
Radisson San José
Calle Central y Tercera Av. 15
San José, Costa Rica
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Description: The World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges is themed as A New World on the Move: The Realities of Irregular Mass Migration and the Challenges Facing Asylum and Immigration Judges Background and it is indeed a great opportunity for the Americas Chapter of the IARMJ to focus on the increase of mixed flows of people who cross international borders, whether forced to seek international protection or migrants with other characteristics and profiles.
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Southeastern Immigration Studies Association Conference
Current Trends in Immigration Research and Activism
Thursday-Saturday, February 20-22, 2020
The Citadel
Charleston, SC
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[Conference details are still pending.]
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Legalizing the Impossible Subject: The White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression
12:00-1:30 p.m., Monday, February 24, 2020
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost’s Building, Conference Room 115
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
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Speakers:
S. Deborah Kang, Visiting Scholar, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Associate Professor of History, California State University San Marcos
Description: During the Great Depression, states and localities expelled nearly a half-million ethnic Mexicans from the United States. Yet, in the midst of these removals, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) launched an initiative to reform the hardships surrounding federal deportation policy. In the process, it expanded the legal architecture by which undocumented Europeans could be legalized. Drawing upon a chapter from her second book project, Undocumented Immigration and Immigration Legalization in the United States, 1906-1986, Kang will describe a legalization program created for Russian immigrants and its implications for the development of US refugee and immigration policies.
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Biometrics for Government & Law Enforcement 2020
Wednesday-Friday, February 26-28, 2020
Key Bridge Marriott
1401 Lee Highway
Arlington, VA 22209
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Program agenda:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
8:50 a.m.
Director’s Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
Integrating Biometric Capabilities into the National Counterterrorism Effort
* Biometric technologies of interest to supplement NCTC mission sets
* Efforts to share terrorism information analysis across the CT enterprise
* NCTC vision for biometric utilization: necessary next steps
Pete Hall, Acting Deputy Director, NCTC
10:30 a.m.
Making the Invisible Visible: Utilizing Biometrics to Stop Crime
Biometric data can be used to provide valuable investigative leads and supplement investigative capabilities. The FBI is continuously expanding its use with identity intelligence, to include DNA, fingerprints, video surveillance and iris recognition. Speaker will discuss emerging technologies and ways to leverage these tools.
Tina Delgado, Section Chief, FBI Laboratory
12:30 p.m.
Delta Looks Ahead: Partnering with CBP and TSA
Delta Airlines was the first airline to collaborate with Customs Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration to install the first ever fully biometric terminal in Atlanta. This partnership will create a seamless experience for the everyday traveler.
* Providing smooth and excellent customer experience for travelers using facial recognition
* Cutting down time spent before flights and increase customer interactions with employees
* Enhancing security at airline touch points
Filipe Pereira dos Reis, Regional Director Airport Passenger Cargo and Security, International Air Transport Association UIT
Tuesday, February 27, 2020
8:50 a.m.
Director’s Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
Advancing Biometrics with Customs and Border: What does the future hold?
* Advancing passenger systems and passenger name records with biometrics
* Monitoring security at all modes of transportation, air, land, and sea
* Centralizing access to biometric data Nael Samha, Director Passenger Systems and Biometrics, Customs and Border Protection
9:45 a.m.
How HSI is currently utilizing various types of Biometric and cutting edge technologies to aid in its investigations
* AI/machine learning – S/A Ben Teed
* Rapid DNA/Biometrics – Section Chief Brandon Stiefer
* Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program (BITMAP)
Section Chief Hillary Hodge
11:00 a.m.
Enhancing Security with Multi-modal Authentication Systems
Multimodal biometric systems allow multiple methods of identification which creates stronger security. They are more accurate, reliable, and provide less room for vulnerability against attacks.
* Replacing passwords with multi-modal biometrics to provide convenience and low password management costs
* Increasing verification accuracy to enhance protection
* Combining biometrics with cloud based solutions
11:45 a.m.
NIST continues effort to develop standards, measurement methods and best practices to deliver superior image based biometrics analytics
Craig Watson, Image Group Manager, NIST
1:30 p.m.
Utilizing Biometrics to Maximize Efficiency in Processing and Authenticating Immigration Requests
Brian Broderick, Deputy Chief Identity and information Management Division, Immigration Records Identity Services
2:15 p.m.
Incorporating Behavioral Biometrics in Ensuring Safety and Continuous Authentication
Analyzing the behavior of humans such as their speech, key strokes, gait, signature and cognition is starting to become more acceptable for the everyday consumer. The next step is to use it to maintain top notch security in government and corporations.
* Using behavioral biometrics as a form of user authentication
Tuesday, February 28, 2020
8:50 a.m.
Director’s Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
Operation of Customs and Border Protection Entry/Exit Program
The Customs and Border Protection Entry/Exit Program was established to protect and prevent a threat during transportation.
* Confirming foreign departures from top U.S. airports using facial recognition software
* Completing CBP’s overall goal of enhancing security for public safety
Jeni Best, Acting Director Biometric Exit Strategic Transformation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
10:30 a.m.
The Future of the Department of Homeland Security and Evolving Biometrics
The Department of Homeland Security is moving towards centralizing biometric data. DHS is seeking to expand their data analysis capabilities for biometrics in ways that can change the game forever.
* Moving the Homeland Advanced Recognition to cloud base systems
* Analyzing matched faces, fingers prints, and Irises using HART
* Analyzing the future of biometrics technology and DHS’s utilization
Arun Vemury, Director of Biometric and Identity Technology Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
12:00 p.m.
Using Machine Learning/ AI in Biometrics to Enhance Security Efforts
The combination of both AI and Biometrics will help strengthen security across facilities. Artificial intelligence is a useful tool in both multimodal and behavioral biometrics.
* Reducing the tolerance for error
* Learning and accounting for subtle changes in an individual’s behavior
* Using AI to keep systems up to date and decrease false positives by analyzing things like handwritten or typing biometrics
12:45 p.m.
The US Army and the development of the ‘Next Generation of Biometric Collection’
The US Army is transforming their use of biometrics with a new biometric collection data system. Although the current tool, ‘The Biometric Automated Tool Set’ is still effective, the new system will have enormous benefits.
* Utilizing a light weight and more compact device for face scanning
* Getting DNA and voice biometric systems on a contactless basis without requiring human contact EAB
1:30 p.m.
Vein Biometrics: Are Hand Gestures The New Replacements to Passwords
Vein biometrics is a new and upcoming form of biometric data and is said to be the most secure form yet.
* Using finger vein recognition to access software – all you need to do is wave
* Reducing the risk of hacking threats and stolen biometrics
2:15 p.m.
Helping to combat crime: Using Biometrics to Bring Your Children Home
* Utilizing biometric data and technology to find missing children
* Sharing data and findings across different sectors
Carol Schweizer, Supervisor Case Manager, Forensics National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Colin McNally, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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Indignity and Indignation: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins
12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, February 27, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
Lower Level Library
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Sarah Willen, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
Description: Sarah Willen is the author of Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, and Ukraine. Although the campaign was billed as a solution to high unemployment, it had another goal as well: to promote an exclusionary vision of Israel as a Jewish state in which non-Jews have no place. The deportation campaign quickly devastated Tel Aviv's migrant communities and set the stage for even more aggressive antimigrant and antirefugee policies in the years to come.
Fighting for Dignity traces the roots of this deportation campaign in Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows how policies that illegalize and criminalize migrants wreak havoc in their lives, endanger their health, and curtail the human capacity to flourish. Children born to migrant parents are especially vulnerable to developmental and psychosocial risks. Drawing on nearly two decades of ethnographic engagement in homes and in churches, medical offices, advocacy organizations, and public spaces, Willen shows how migrants struggle to craft meaningful, flourishing lives despite the exclusions and vulnerabilities they endure. To complement their perspectives, she introduces Israeli activists who reject their government's exclusionary agenda and strive to build bridges across difference, repair violations of migrants' dignity, and resist policies that violate their own moral convictions. Willen's vivid and unflinching ethnography challenges us to reconsider our
understandings of global migration, human rights, the Middle East— and even dignity itself.
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Conference on the Venezuela Refugee Crisis
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-3:00 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2020
Haines Hall 352
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
Description: What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This project identifies two puzzling patterns in state responses to refugees: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (the “discrimination puzzle”), and a number of countries have given the UN control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (the “delegation puzzle”). I develop a two-part framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. At the international level, policymakers consider relations with the refugee-sending country. At the domestic level, policymakers consider political competition among ethnic groups. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies.
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-703 - Newcomers to Citizens: Immigrant Integration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday-Wednesday, March 2-4, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: With a record 200 million people living outside their country of birth, immigration is a global phenomenon with profound demographic, economic, social, and political implications for both sending and receiving countries. The debate over immigration law and policy has become increasingly volatile and, in some instances, characterized by misinformation, hate, and xenophobia. Beyond the politics of immigration, genuine challenges to immigrant integration abound. Successful integration of immigrants is critical to the long-term prosperity of host countries that rely on immigrants as workers, consumers, taxpayers, innovators, and entrepreneurs in light of their aging native-born populations and lower birth rates. In this course we will explore integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving countries--such as the United States and Canada and new countries of permanent immigration such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom. We
will raise questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity. We will also discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism, paradigms that challenge an integrationist reading of migration. Using case studies from North America and Europe we will pay special attention to the different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation on their road from newcomers to citizens.
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Discuss the integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving and source countries.
* Recognize questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity.
* Discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism.
* Compare different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation.
Instructor: Jennifer Wistrand
Notes: This course is an open enrollment course. No application is required and registration is available by clicking "Add to Cart." Current students must register with their Georgetown NetID and password. New students will be prompted to create an account prior to registration.
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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Border Security Expo
Wednesday-Thursday, March 11-12, 2020
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
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Conference agenda:
Keynotes:
Ronald D. Vitiello, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Vice Admiral Scott Buschman, Director, Joint Task Force-East
Scott A. Luck, Deputy Chief, U.S. Border Patrol
John P. Sanders, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Panels:
National Vetting Center: What is It? What isn’t It? And How Will It Change the Way We Protect the Homeland?
This session will focus on the National Vetting Center (NVC) and how it will complement the National Targeting Center (NTC). Experts from the NVC, NTC, as well as other members of the Intelligence Community, will discuss why the NVC is critical to the Homeland and next steps. The NVC will be operational at the time of the Expo, enabling the audience and panels to discuss the implementation.
Mass Migration and Unaccompanied Children: Financial and National Security Impacts
This panel will be comprised of experts from ICE Homeland Security Investigations assigned to the U.S., Mexico, and Central America. The panel will discuss the financial impact on the U.S., Mexico, and Central American countries in addressing the issues related mass migration and unaccompanied children attempting to enter the U.S. The panel will discuss human trafficking, organized human smuggling organizations, and national security issues relating to mass migration and unaccompanied children. The panel will provide publicly releasable information relating to “The Caravan” that reached the U.S./Border in November 2018.
Border: Wall – Ports – System(s) – Technology – Infrastructure – Integration – Modernization
Panel will discuss the immediate, near term, and out-year capability requirements, goals, and vision for border operations including infrastructure updates; technology needs, requirements, and planning; initiatives; modernization; and deployments.
Model Port: How Technology, Public-Private Partnerships, and Innovation Will Continue to Change the Way Ports-of-Entry Operate
This panel will be comprised of experts from the federal/local governments and industry. It will highlight what will take place at the POE in Donna, Texas and why it is important to the country’s national and economic security. Technology will play a key role in defining the Model Port. A representative from the City of Donna will explain why this investment is important to the local community. CBP Headquarters staff will address the Donation Assistance Program and why it is necessary to make the Model Port a reality.
A Dialogue with Tenoch Moreno, General Customs Administration, Mexico: Current Operations and Future Thoughts
Procurement: Keeping Industry Current in the Complex Area of Government Procurement and the Mission Needs of Border Operators
This is a must-attend session for those who plan to compete for government contracts. Rules and regulations change frequently, and new requirements are placed on industry. Industry must have a clear understanding of the mission needs of the border operators. Government and industry experts will discuss best practices and explain how to best leverage the many opportunities that support the daily mission of CBP and other agencies. Government panelists will include Senior Executives from CBP procurement and the new office of Operations Support.
Complete conference agenda will be available at end of December.
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Emigration from Paradise: Migration Stories from Interwar Hungary
Harvard Center for European Studies
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
llse Josepha Lazaroms, Lecturer, Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Martin Buber Chair, Goethe University Frankfurt; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Description: In this talk Ilse Josepha Lazaroms will discuss the many variations of emigration and emigration narratives that existed among Jewish communities in interwar Hungary and the Hungarian diasporas. This story is a part of a larger book project entitled Emigration from Paradise: Home, Fate and Nation in Post-World War I Jewish Hungary (forthcoming with Stanford University Press). The manuscript deals with the nature of national attachment and social exclusion in 1920s East Central Europe, and Hungary in particular, as well as the ways in which the personal, social and national traumas of these years reverberate until today. The story, which is set at the point when European civilization plunged into the depths of darkness, focuses on the life-stories of individual Hungarian Jews, thereby bringing the domain of the private into the world of politics, migrations and nation states.
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Author Meets Critics Event: Refuge Beyond Reach
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
Description: In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces how rich democracies have deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Drawing on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks, and interviews with asylum seekers, he finds that for ninety-nine percent of refugees, the only way to find safety in one of the prosperous democracies of the Global North is to reach its territory and then ask for asylum. FitzGerald shows how the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia comply with the letter of law while violating the spirit of those laws through a range of deterrence methods -- first designed to keep out Jews fleeing the Nazis -- that have now evolved into a pervasive global system of "remote control." While some of the most draconian remote control practices continue in secret, Fitzgerald identifies some pressure points and finds that a diffuse humanitarian obligation to help those in need is more difficult for governments to evade than the
law alone.
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The Society of Government Economists Annual Convention
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Friday, March 27, 2020
Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
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[Conference agenda has not yet been announced]
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-715 - Environmental Displacement and Migration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, April 15-17, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: Since the earliest history of humankind, people have migrated in response to environmental change. Today there is growing concern that human-induced climate change, coupled with human settlement patterns, will lead to far greater movements of people; some movement is likely to be voluntary as people look for better opportunities elsewhere in response to changing livelihoods. Some is likely to be involuntary – either anticipatory as people see the handwriting on the wall or reactive as people have no alternative but to move. Some will be spontaneous – in the case of Puerto Rico where hundreds of thousands of people left Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Some will be planned as in the case of Staten Island where people decided to move elsewhere, with government support, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Environmental displacement and migration are not just concerns for future generations; people are already moving. This course will begin with an examination of
environmental risk due to physical processes and then review the state of theoretical knowledge about patterns of migration. The course will then look at the socio-economic, political, security, and demographic factors that affect environmental displacement and migration as well as the consequences for those who move, for the destination communities, for those left behind and for national and international politics
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Understand the relationship between environmental phenomena and socio-economic factors as drivers of displacement and migration
* Analyze the relationship between environmental risk and mobility
* Understand the normative frameworks applicable to different types of internal and cross-border migration and displacement
* Explain basic concepts, such as vulnerability, risk, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation
* Identify different disciplinary approaches to environmental migration and displacement
* Recognize the different international institutional actors
Instructor: Elizabeth Ferris
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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Writing Immigration History in an Age of Fake News
12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Katy Long, Senior Research Associate at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London
Description: In the battle that currently rages over immigrants’ place in America’s future, history has been weaponized. If liberals remain convinced that America is at its very core a ‘nation of immigrants’: a country shaped by a constant flow of newcomers, conservatives insist that preserving historic American identity depends upon keeping an imminent immigrant ‘invasion’ at bay. The reality, however, is a far more less binary history than is suggested by either shrill and repetitive headlines about walls, deportations and looming crisis, or romanticized nostalgia for an era in which ‘huddled masses’ were ushered through ‘golden doors’. At a moment when debates over immigration are at the center of a national political crisis, is there a duty to write about immigration in ways that reach beyond the seminar hall? If so, how can researchers best tell stories about the history of American Immigration in ways which engage an ever-more skeptical and polarized public.
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The Issue of Immigration in America: Moving Beyond Walls and Open Borders
4:30–6:00 p.m., Friday, April 24, 2020
Heinz College – Hamburg Hall A301
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Description: In the United States, the issue of immigration gives rise to controversy and conflict. This issue requires us to wrestle with challenging questions about many things, including:
Who should be admitted to the US as an immigrant (family members, skilled workers, etc.)?
How many people should the US admit as immigrants (should we increase, decrease or keep current levels)?
What rules should guide the immigration process (and how should these rules be enforced)?
How should we address the problems (social, political, and economic) that cause people to migrate from their home countries?
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Annual Conference on European Immigration Law 2020
Monday-Tuesday, April 27-28, 2020
Academy of Europe
Avenue des Arts 56,
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Objective:
The aim of this conference is to provide legal practitioners with an update on recent developments in the EU legal migration system and the mechanisms put in place to tackle labour and skills shortages and to reinforce the attractiveness of the EU for key workers. It will give them the opportunity to discuss current legal reforms with high-level experts in the field.
Key topics: Key novelties in current EU legal migration law.
Schengen Visa Code amendments
Blue Card system for highly qualified workers
Intra-Corporate Transfers Directive in practice
Implementation of the Single Permit Directive
Family reunification of third-country nationals
Integration of third-country nationals in the EU Member States
Strengthening cooperation with non-EU countries: facilitating legal migration pathways
Employment and immigration law post-Brexit
Recent case law of European courts in legal migration matters
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-716 - Immigration Policy
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, May 6-8, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: U.S. Immigration Reform examines the strengths and weaknesses of current US immigration policy and proposals for its reform. The course focuses on the system for legal permanent admissions and temporary admissions (nonimmigrant categories) for work, family reunification, study, and other similar purposes. It also examines policies designed to curb unauthorized migration, assessing the effectiveness of border and interior enforcement activities.
The course also examines policies related to forced migration, including refugee resettlement, asylum and temporary protected status. These issues will be discussed in a comparative framework, analyzing how other countries address issues affecting the United States. The course will examine the role of federal, state and local authorities in implementing policy reforms. It also examines the role of public opinion and various interest groups in affecting policy formulation.
Students will be required to write a 10-page paper, due after the course completion, on a specific reform issue.
Section Notes: U.S. Immigration Reform examines the strengths and weaknesses of current US immigration policy and proposals for its reform. The course focuses on the system for legal permanent admissions and temporary admissions (nonimmigrant categories) for work, family reunification, study, and other similar purposes. It also examines policies designed to curb unauthorized migration, assessing the effectiveness of border and interior enforcement activities.
Instructor: Katharine Donato
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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