During the past decade, right wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation’s foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset.
Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy. It brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community, along with fresh solutions to vexing questions of so-called future flows that have bedeviled policymakers for decades. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation’s identity, its economy, and progressive movements for social change.
Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers’ rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement. In this conversation, Amaha Kassa, Cecilia Muñoz, and Mae Ngai will discuss the book with editors Deepak Bhargava and Ruth Milkman.
Speakers
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Deepak Bhargava
Moderator
Deepak Bhargava is a distinguished lecture in urban studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
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Ruth Milkman
Speaker
Ruth Milkman is a distinguished professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, where she chairs the Labor Studies Department.
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Cecilia Muñoz
Speaker
Cecilia Muñoz, currently a senior advisor at New America, is a national leader in public policy and public interest technology with nearly three decades of experience in the nonprofit sector and eight years of service on President Obama’s senior team.
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Mae Ngai
Speaker
Mae Ngai is Lung family professor of Asian American studies and professor of history in Columbia University’s Department of History.
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