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Conference to look at ’crimmigration’
Interdisciplinary scholars will examine immigration law and policy reforms
By JOHN DELLACONTRADA
Contributing editor
With the recent debates and protests over U.S. immigration policy as a backdrop, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy will present the conference "Merging Immigration and Crime Control," featuring commentary and analysis from leading international experts on the social and economic impact of immigration.
To be held from 3-5 p.m. on April 28 and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 29 in 12 O'Brian Hall on the North Campus, the event is free and open to the public. Space is limited, so registration is recommended. Please email your name and affiliation to Ellen Kausner at ekausner@buffalo.edu or call 645-2102.
Five Continuing Legal Education Credits (CLE) may be earned at the conference. For those seeking CLE credits, registration is required; the conference fee is $100 for both days or $40 Friday and $60 Saturday. For more information, go to http://www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/immigration06.htm.
The conference is co-organized by UB Law School Professor Teresa A. Miller, an expert on the growing prevalence of detention as a policy within the U.S. immigration system, and Hofstra University Law Professor Nora Demleitner, who teaches and has written widely in the areas of criminal, comparative and immigration law.
"The purpose of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss how crime control and immigration control have converged, particularly since the declaration of the 'War on Drugs' and the 'War on Terror,'" says Miller. "This may be the first conference in the country to address this convergence, also known as 'crimmigration,'" Miller says.
Participants will examine recent immigration law and policy reforms that adopt a more criminally punitive approach to the treatment of non-U.S. citizens. These reforms include the detention of certain classes of removable aliens, local police enforcement of federal immigration law, expedited removal of undocumented workers and the removal of so-called "criminal" aliens.
Discussions also will shed light on the manner in which immigration control and national security are reshaping criminal justice and correctional practices, resulting in a renegotiation of the relationship between the immigration and criminal justice systems, Miller says.
Participants will include:
Stephen Legomsky, the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Legomsky is author of "Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy," adopted as the required text for immigration courses at 157 U.S. law schools.
Michael Welch, professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University. He is author of "Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex (Temple University Press, 2002) and "Ironies of Imprisonment" (SAGE Publications, 2004).
Daniel Kanstroom, director of the Boston College Law School International Human Rights Program and clinical professor of law. He is author of "Good-bye Rosalita: A History of Deportation" (forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2006).
Audrey Macklin, associate professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Her research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights.
Giovanna Macri, adjunct professor in the UB Law School and counsel to the Law Offices of Mark T. Kenmore, specializing in removal defense litigation. Her teaching areas include immigration law and prisoners' rights.
Johanna Oreskovic, director of Post-Professional Education at the UB Law School and administrator of the law school's exchange programs. She has studied the development of international adoption as a social and legal institution.
Huyen Pham, associate professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law. She teaches immigration law, criminal law, family law and lawyering.
Anna Pratt, assistant professor of criminology at York University and author of "Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada" (University of British Colombia Press, 2005).
Randall Shelden, professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies delinquency, gangs, crime control, female crime and delinquency and the history of criminal justice. He is currently conducting research on the prison industrial complex.
Jonathan Simon, associate dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and professor of law at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley.
Juliet Stumpf associated professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School. Her research focuses on the intersection of immigration law and constitutional law, criminal law, national security law, civil rights and employment law.
Maartje van der Woude, Leiden University Law School, Netherlands, an expert on Dutch immigration and criminal law.