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1. (#1) 2/12, DC - House markup of H.R. 2214, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act - [New Listing]
2. (#2) 2/12, DC - MPI webinar on the differing state approaches to English learner policies under ESSA
3. (#3) 2/13, DC - House hearing on assessing U.S. security assistance to Mexico - [New Listing]
4. (#4) 2/14, Los Angeles - Lecture on explaining state responses to refugees
5. (#5) 2/17-21, San José, Costa Rica - World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
6. (#6) 2/20, St. Petersburg, FL - CIS at discussion on nativism and immigration - [New Listing]
7. (#7) 2/20, Aspen, CO - Discussion on U.S. relations with the Northern Triangle countries - [New Listing]
8. (#8) 2/20-22, Charleston, SC - Conference on current trends in immigration research and activism - [Updated with agenda]
9. (#9) 2/24, DC - Lecture on humanizing migration and border security - [New Listing]
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) 3/4, New York, NY - Discussion on public preferences for limits and conditions on asylum policies - [New Listing]
16. (#16) 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo
17. (#17) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
18. (#18) 3/13, Los Angeles - Book discussion: Refuge Beyond Reach
19. (#19) 3/24, New York, NY - Book discussion: The Shifting Border - [New Listing]
20. (#20) 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
21. (#21) 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
22. (#22) 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
23. (#23) 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration
24. (#24) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
25. (#25) 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy

Markup - H.R. 2214, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act or the NO BAN Act

10:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 12, 2020
House Committee on the Judiciary
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
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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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Assessing U.S. Security Assistance to Mexico

9:00 a.m., Thursday, February 13, 2020
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade
2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
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Witnesses:
Hugo Rodriguez
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Richard Glenn
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Barbara Feinstein
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United States Agency for International Development

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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 Avenue 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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Nativism & Immigration: Time to Close the Gates?

St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs

11:20 a.m., Thursday, February 20, 2020
USFSP University Student Center
200 6th Ave S.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
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Panelists:
Raymond Arsenault
John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, where he has taught since 1980. A specialist in the political, social, environmental, and civil rights

Andrew “Art” Arthur
Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, DC-based research institute that examines the impact of immigration on American society. He began his legal career

Bruce Eberle
Under Bruce's leadership, Eberle Associates has received numerous regional, national, and international awards for excellence in direct mail fund raising. But more important by far, Eberle Associates has become the most efficient and effective

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Edlis Neeson Great Decisions: U.S. Relations with the Northern Triangle

6:30-8:30 p.m. MT, Thursday February 20, 2020
Aspen Institute, Koch Building
1000 N. Third Street
Aspen, CO 81611
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Description: In this eight-week series, participants gather to discuss key foreign policy issues facing the world today. Lead by volunteer moderators, participants will engage in moderated discussions with their fellow citizens. This year’s topics will include Climate Change and the Global Order, India and Pakistan, Red Sea Security, The Rebirth of Russian Influence, U.S. Relations with the Northern Triangle, China’s Road into Latin America, Fragmentation of the EU, and Artificial Intelligence and Data.
February 20: U.S. Relations with the Northern Triangle

Combating illegal immigration has become a priority of the Trump administration. The Northern Triangle of Central America, made up of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, is a special target of the administration, which hold the nations responsible for the large flow of migrants from Latin America to the U.S. With funds from the U.S. cut, how can the Northern Triangle countries curtail migration?
Thursdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. beginning Thursday, January 23, running through Thursday, March 12 in the Koch Building at the Aspen Institute.

Fee: $225, includes all sessions, readings and light refreshments.

This program is currently full. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please contact [email protected].

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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 agenda:

Friday, February 21, 2020

9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session One
Room One - Refugees

“He’s Not Heavy, but He’s Not My Brother”: Evaluating Mixed Support among Asian Americans toward Syrian Refugees
Shyam Krishnan Sriram, Butler University
Chloe McCarthy, University of Nottingham

Local Host City Implementation of National Refugee Policy: A Comparative Case Study
Emma Cregg, College of Charleston

Every Campus A Refuge: Dignity and Justice in Refugee Resettlement
Diya Abdo, Guilford College
Kathleen Herbst, Guilford College
Hsar (Ree Ree) Wei, Guilford College

Room Two - Education

Learning Difference, Division, and Unity: Schools and Boundary-Making in the "New Latinx South"
Rebeca Gamez, John Hopkins University

Migrant and Refugee Students In Online Writing Courses: Their Stories
Kevin Depew, Old Dominion University

What “Counts” as Education Policy for Immigrant Students?: Effects of US Federal and State Immigration/Immigrant Policy on K-12 Immigrant Students and Families
Leslie Gautsch, UC San Diego

Room 3 - Criminality

Predatory Street Targeting of Immigrants: Offender Perspectives
Krystlelynn Caraballo, Georgia State University

Immigrants of Color Living Under Crimmigration Law
Natalie Cholula, UNC Greensboro

The Automobile and Anti-Immigration Movements: From Licensing to Drunk Driving Crackdowns
Joseph Rodriguez, University of Wisconson-Milwaukee

Alumni Center-Symposium
Voces Comunitarias: Collaboration, Leadership, Engagement and Translation & Interpreting

Araceli Hernández-Laroche-USC Upstate
Maria Francisco Montesó-USC Upstate
Begoña Caballero-García-Wofford College

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session 2
Room 1 - Asylum Seekers

Allard-Asylum Seeking as Moral Agency under Constraint
Silas Allard, Emory University

The Spaces of Gender-Based Asylum
Pooja Dadhania, California Western School of Law

Understanding the Post Resettlement Process: In-depth Analysis of the Burmese Refugee Population in Knoxville
Melissa Holmes, Refugee Integration through Community Outreach

Room 2 - History

The Jewish Roots of American Refugee Policy
Shyam Krishnan Sriram, Butler University
Victoria Combs, Butler University
Cole McNamara, Butler University

Halting & Holding
Smita Gosh, Georgetown University

Trump’s Use of Executive Powers to Make Immigration Policy
Michele Waslin, George Mason University

Room 3 - Immigration Detention/Legal System
We Don't Want Prettier Jails: How to Shut Down
Azadeh Shahshahani, Project South

The Role of Immigration Attorneys in Case-Selection, Preparation, and Navigating an Uncertain Field
Dylan Farrell-Bryan, University of Pennsylvania

Using Technology at the Border and Detention Centers Can Drive Policy Change
Damjan Denoble, frontera TECH

Alumni Center-Symposium

Notes from the (Under) Ground: A Panel of Local Advocates offers Insight from Charleston, SC
Aimee Herring, Charleston County Adult Education

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 3
Room 1 - Higher Education Room 2-Dreamers/Youth Advocacy

Fostering a Critical Immigration Perspective: A New Approach to Academic Activism and Advocacy
Juan Jose Bustamante, University of Arkansas

Representation and the Academic Profession
Hector Diaz, University of South Carolina

Engaging Undergraduates through Creative Inquiry
Mikel Cole, Clemson University
Stephanie Schenck, Clemson University
Angela Naimou, Clemson University

Room 2 - Dreamers/Youth Advocacy

Pre- DACA Returnees and the Pursuit of the American Dream South of the Border
Eleanor Petrone, Western Carolina University

Student DREAMers Alliance: Raising a Generation of Advocates and Leaders
James Campbell, Carolina High School
Adela Mendoza, Hispanic Alliance
Dina Estrada, Hispanic Alliance

Nested Socio-Legal Contexts: Undocumented Young Adults Navigating Belonging in Georgia
Edelina Burciaga, University of Colorado-Denver

Room 3 - Public Opinion towards Immigration

Polarization and U.S. Public Opinion on Immigration
Charles D. Brockett, Sewanee: The University of the South

A(mass)ing Counternarratives in Mediatized Debates about Immigration in the Aftermath(s) of an ICE Raid
Jennifer Reynolds, University of South Carolina

Discrimination in New Immigrant Destinations: A Comparison of Southeast Asians in Taiwan and Latin American Immigrants in the American Southeast
Shuchi Huang, College of Charleston
Will McCorkle, College of Charleston

Symposium
The Scars They Carry: Patterns of Abuse in Asylum-Seekers in South Carolina and the Development of the MUSC Asylum Clinic
Brian Elmore, Medical University of South Carolina

3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session 4
Room 1 - Regional Collaboration

Foster regional collaboration to spur immigrant inclusion
Jordyne Krumroy, Welcoming America

Rhizomatic Citizenship as Democratic Practice
Cathryn Bennett, UNC-Greensboro
Marina Lambrinou, UNC-Greensboro

Building a collective resistance to defeat racism, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant attacks
Manzoor Cheema-Project South
Azadeh Shahshahani-Project South

Room 2 - 287g
Fighting back against Local Police Collaboration with ICE and Winning
Adelina Nicholls, Project South

Rethinking the “Gold Standard” of Racial Profiling: §287(g), Secure Communities and Racially Discrepant Police Power
Austin Kocher, Syracuse University

Local Resistance to 287(g) and Immigration Enforcement in Knox County, Tennessee
De Ann Pendry, University of Tennessee

Room 3 - Teachers

I am more than a "glorified translator": Latinx (immigrant) educators in South Carolina
Tim Monreal, University of South Carolina

“When the teacher says, I’m surprised they let you back into the country..’ where do we belong?” Educator responses and undocumented youth experiences of belonging and discrimination in a southeastern school
Sophia Rodriguez, UNC-Greensboro
Marina Lambrinou, UNC-Greensboro

“Teach Your Children Well": Correlating Religious Affiliation and Immigration Attitudes among Educators
Will McCorkle, College of Charleston
Shyam Krishnan Sriram, Butler University

Symposium
Where do you fall on the deportation spectrum?
Felicia Arriaga-Appalachian State University
Ian Foley, Appalachian State University
Beau Groover, Appalachian State University
Jessie Rios, Appalachian State University

Saturday, February 22, 2020

9:30-11:00 a.m.
Session 5
Room 1 - Trauma

Immigrants and Domestic Violence in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Claire Schuch, UNC-Charlotte

Coping together: a mixed-methods exploration on how Mexican American adolescents and their parents cope in response to ethnic-racial discrimination
Michelle Y. Martin Romero, UNC-Chapel Hill
Laura M. Gonzalez, UNC-Greensboro
Gabriela Livas Stein, UNC-Greensboro

Trauma-informed care for immigrant students? Exploring the role of school social workers
Karen Andrea Flynn, University of South Carolina
Benjamin J. Roth, University of South Carolina
Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Dominican University
Sophia Rodriguez, UNC-Greensboro

Room 2 - Welcoming Immigrant Communities
Welcoming cities in unwelcoming states: The challenges of immigrant integration in North Carolina
Maggie Commins, Queens University of Charlotte

From Municipal to Regional Immigrant Integration in a Major Emerging Gateway: Creating a Community to Plan a Welcoming Metro Atlanta
Paul N. McDaniel, Kennesaw State University
Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Kennesaw State University
Jordyne Krumroy, Welcoming America

State Immigrant Inclusivity & English Learner Education in the Every Student Succeeds Act: Approaching or Departing Equity?
Leslie Gautsch, UC-San Diego
Rebecca Callahan, UC San Diego
Megan Hopkins, UC San Diego

Room 3 - Activism

HB 3404: Expanding Access to Education and professional Opportunities for immigrants in S.C.
Sarai Bautista, Upstate DREAMers
Aylin Gomez

Building Networks of Change in a New Immigrant Destination in the New South
Nina Cano, Charleston Immigrant Coalition
Fernando Soto, Charleston Immigrant Coalition

Symposium
Migration Policy Solutions
Nancy A. Aguirre, The Citadel

Book Reading- Immigrant Narratives in the American South: Charting Here, Home, and Healing
Cinelle Barnes, Local Immigrant Author and Activist

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Humanizing Migration and Border Security

12:00-1:30 p.m., Monday, February 24, 2020
Arrupe Hall, Multipurpose Room
Georgetown University
3700 O Street NW
Washington, DC 20057
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Description: ISIM will host John Moore, a Pulitzer Prize and World Press winning documentary photographer, on campus. Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. While on campus, he will do two presentations. In the first, he will discuss his work aimed to humanize the issue of immigration and border security. His talk will draw from photographs of migrants taken at the southern U.S. border and at other borders worldwide. In the second event, he will present photographs of the wildlife survivors from the continuing bushfires in Australia. This is new work which will be part of a major exhibit in New York City later this year.

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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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A Need for Control? Political Trust and Public Preferences for Asylum

Presented by Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School

6:00-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
I 202, Arnold Hall
The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
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Speaker:
Dr. Martin Ruhs, Chair in Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre
The European University Institute

Description: Europeans want to protect refugees, but they prefer a policy approach that sets limits and conditions. This discussion will provide the first-ever analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy in Europe, a highly politicized policy area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date.

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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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Book Discussion: 'The Shifting Border'

Presented by Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.

6:00-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
Starr Foundation Hall, U L102, University Center
The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
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Speaker:
Ayelet Shacher, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs
Toronto University

Description: We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country’s territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. This transformation upsets our assumptions about waning sovereignty, while also revealing the limits of the populist push toward border-fortification. It also presents a tremendous opportunity to rethink states’ responsibilities to migrants. This book proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move.

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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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