2022 CARES Symposium, 4/8

The Road to Abolition: Intersectional Approaches to Immigrant Justice

Friday, April 8, 2022
10:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Laurence E. Hirsch '71 Classroom (Room 101)
John F. Scarpa Hall
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
299 N. Spring Mill Road, Villanova, PA 19085

For its second annual symposium, the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) will explore abolition as the path to immigrant justice. As immigration detention and deportation continue to perpetuate global inequality, entrenched colonialism, and racial injustice, a movement to abolish ICE and shift government resources to housing, health care, and education continues to grow. The symposium will focus on organizing efforts to end immigration enforcement and detention, the intersection of racial justice and abolitionist movements and lessons learned in abolitionist work beyond the immigrant rights movement.

This program is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 3.5 Substantive In-Person CLE credits. No distance learning CLE credits will be available. Please note registration prior to the event is required.

The cost of attendance is covered by a generous gift from Joseph Azrack ’69 VSB. Any donation made through registration to support the CARES Clinic will be fully tax-deductible.

Agenda

Subject to change

10:30–10:45 a.m.: Opening Remarks

10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Panel 1 – The View on the Ground: Organizing for Immigration Abolition

Erika Guadalupe Núñez, Executive Director, Juntos
Van Sam, Community Defense Program Manager, Vietlead
Chia-Chia Wang, Organizing & Advocacy Director, American Friends Service Committee

12:00–12:15: p.m.: Reflections

Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, Associate Professor, Director of Latin American Studies Program, Villanova University

12:15–1:00 p.m.: Lunch

1:00–2:00 p.m.: Featured Lecture – "Immigration Reform Requires Changing Our Paradigm for Racism and Movement Building"

Ian Haney López, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

2:15–3:45 p.m.: Panel 2 – Breaking Down Silos: Perspectives on Abolition

Caitlin Barry, Director of the Clinical Program, Director of the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic & Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Sterling Johnson, Housing Activist and PhD Student, Temple University
Jennifer J. Lee, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
BeKura Shabazz, Advocate & Activist, Criminal Injustice Reform Network
Hezzy Smith, Director of Advocacy Initiatives, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Olayemi Olurin, Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society of NYC