AALS 2025 Immigration Section Programs

Dear Colleagues,

 

AALS Annual Meeting registration is now open. We encourage you to come to SF and attend these immigration section events, which are stacked from Thursday evening - Saturday morning:

• Thursday, January 9 (5:30pm) Reception at Asian Art Museum (Save the Date; RSVP to come)
• Friday, January 10 Main panel (12:50): Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Immigration Policy
• Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA)
• Maritsa Poros (CUNY Graduate School)
• Ayelet Shachar (UC Berkeley)
• Cori Alonso-Yoder (George Washington)
• Friday, January 10 (2:40) Field trip to Angel Island (limited spots, requires AALS pre-registration)
• Saturday, January 11 (8:30) New Voices in Immigration Law
• Nicole Miller (Drake), Accommodating Childhood in Immigration Removal
• Aadhithi Padmanabhan (Maryland), Surprise Deportations
• Rick Su (UNC), Rose Villazor (Rutgers), Deep Gulasekaram (Colorado), Rise and Fall of Sanctuary
• Bijal Shah, Procedural Discretion (Boston College)
• Allison Brownell-Tirres (DePaul), Noncitizen Rights and legal status in 1970s
• Mary Yanik (Tulane), Immigration Protection as Labor Enforcement

 

As you can see, we have scheduled our events over an action packed two-and-a-half days to make it easier for people to come for the full complement of programs. Please also indicate that you plan to attend these events on the AALS registration form to garner sufficiently-large rooms!

 

Regards,

Ming

 

Ming Hsu Chen (chair, on behalf of the executive committee)

Kathleen Kim (chair-elect)

Michael Kagan

Pratheepan Gulasekaram

Fatma Marouf