Criminalization of Immigration and Refugee Resettlement: Public Forum

The Criminalization of Immigration and Refugee Resettlement: Implications for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice

“Despite the abundance of evidence that immigration is not linked to higher crime rates, and that immigrants are less likely to be criminals than the native-born, many U.S. policymakers succumb to their fears and prejudices about what they imagine immigrants to be. As a result, far too many immigration policies… are criminalizing an ever broadening swath of the immigrant population by applying a double standard when it comes to the consequences for criminal behavior.”
-American Immigration Council

Marisol Brito, Philosophy Department, will moderate a panel and discussion with:

• Rosario de la Torre, Advocacy Manager, Casa de Esperanza
• John Keller, Executive Director, Immigrant Law Center
• Mai Neng Moua, Attorney-at-Law, Mai N. Moua Law Office

If you can provide or need a ride to the Brooklyn Park campus from Saint Paul and back, please contact community.engagement@metrostate.edu. The Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship will make every effort to arrange carpooling.
 
This event part of the second annual series of Current Topics in Criminal Justice organized by the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Studies Department. Co-sponsors  include Hennepin Technical College, and Metropolitan State's Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship (ICES) and the American Democracy Project. For more information, contact Raj Sethuraju, Criminal Justice faculty member.

A light snack and refreshments will be provided.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

• Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
• Address: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Education Center, Room 112, 9110 Brooklyn Boulevard, Brooklyn Park, MN, 55445
• For more information: Raj Sethuraju at Nadarajan.Sethuraju@metrostate.edu or 763-657-3750.

Web Resources

• The Advocates for Human Rights. "Chapter 1: Public Safety." Moving from Exclusion to Belonging: Immigrant Rights in Minnesota Today. 2 Apr. 2014. Web. 8 Nov. 2015.
• Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. "Perceptions of Transportation, Housing, and Safety Perceptions Among Immigrants and Refugees in the Twin Cities." Speaking for Ourselves. Sept. 2015. Web. 8 Nov. 2015. 
• Migration Policy Institute. "State and Local Enforcement." Migration Policy Institute. n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.
• Saint-Fort, Pradine, Noelle Yasso, & Susan Shah. "Engaging Police in Immigrant Communities: Promising Practices from the Field." VERA Institute of Justice.  Oct. 2012. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.

Scholarly Sources

• Davis, Robert C., Edna Erez, and Nancy Avitabile. "Access to justice for immigrants who are victimized: The perspectives of police and prosecutors." Criminal Justice Policy Review 12.3 (2001): 183-196. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
• Kerwin, Donald. "The use and misuse of ‘national security’rationale in crafting US refugee and immigration policies." International Journal of Refugee Law 17.4 (2005): 749-763. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
• Kirk, David S., et al. "The Paradox of Law Enforcement in Immigrant Communities Does Tough Immigration Enforcement Undermine Public Safety?." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 641.1 (2012): 79-98. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
• "Policing immigrant communities." Harvard Law Review Apr. 2015: 1771+. LegalTrac. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
• Provine, Doris Marie, and Roxanne Lynn Doty. "The criminalization of immigrants as a racial project." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 27.3 (2011): 261-277. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
• Strunk, Christopher, and Helga Leitner. "Resisting Federal–Local Immigration Enforcement Partnerships: Redefining ‘Secure Communities’ and Public Safety." Territory, Politics, Governance 1.1 (2013): 62-85. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.

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