2017 Fall World at Our Doorsteps: Immigration and Deportation in Los Angeles

October 31, 2017

Tuesday Noon – Tamara Ho

Myanmar and the Rohingya: Unpacking a Southeast Asian Humanitarian Crisis Since August 2017, the world’s attention has turned to Myanmar and the displacement of the Rohingya, a Muslim […]

August 22, 2017

Junot Diaz in Conversation “Junot DÃaz has one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic.” —The New York Times Junot DÃaz‘s fiction […]

Tuesday Noon – Gilda Ochoa

Where the Past Meets the Present: Latina/o Migration, Roots,and Resistance in L.A. County Gilda Ochoa, Pomona professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o studies at Pomona College and author of Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican […]

Tuesday Noon- Hussam Ayloush

Muslims Not Welcome: The Political Ramifications of Islamophobia on Muslim Immigrants in America The xenophobic rhetoric of the 2016 presidential election has only intensified since Donald Trump took office, and […]

Public Lecture – Hiroshi Motomura

City of Angels, City of Immigrants Several historical episodes have been crucial in making Los Angeles into the City of Immigrants that it is today. The first is the story […]

Tuesday Noon – Bamby Salcedo

New Frontera: #TranslatinaPower in 2017 Political Climate This session will highlight the issues related to the current political climate and the ways in which Trans Latin@s are resisting and combating […]

Student Only Workshop – Alexandra Suh

‘Don’t Deport My Parents!’: Immigrant communities fighting back This workshop will provide information on recent anti-immigrant policies and practices and their impact on immigrant communities. We will analyze and discuss […]

Public Lecture – Maria Elena Durazo

Immigration, Civil Rights, and Diversity Maria Elena Durazo will discuss her experiences as a civil rights, labor rights, and immigrant rights organizer and the need for diversity in the workforce, […]

Public Lecture – Angelica Salas

Humane Immigrant Rights in L.A. Since becoming CHIRLA’s executive director in 1999, Angelica Salas has spearheaded several ambitious campaigns locally, state-wide, and nationally. She helped win in-state tuition for […]

Student Only Workshop – Edina Lekovic

A Canary in the Coal Mine: Being Muslim in Trump’s America Since he declared his candidacy, Donald Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Muslims, painting them as a suspicious population […]

Student Only Workshop – Inland Empire – Immigrant Youth Coalition

Immigrants for Sale: Profiting from Incarceration and Detention Members of the Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Coalition will facilitate a student only workshop in which participants will learn the history of […]