FIRST CONFERENCE ON IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE!
“Organizing Migrant and Immigrant Workersâ€
January 19-20
Featuring Keynote speeches by:
Jennifer Gordon and Baldemar Velasquez, Winners of the McArthur Award
For more information visit:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dandanar/mira/conference.html
or email contactmira(at)umich.edu
This conference, organized by the students of MIRA (Migrant and Immigrant Rights Awareness) and the Labor Law Roundtable, with the support of UM faculty, is the first of a series of three annual conferences that will address issues of immigration and social justice. The conference will bring together leading academics and activists, as well as union leaders and students, to discuss recent developments and new strategies in the fight to organize immigrant workers.
The conference will open on Thursday night with a panel on the international human rights framework and innovative domestic legal strategies hosted at the law school. On Friday, the venue will shift to the School of Social Work. The Friday component of the conference will include panels focusing on the agricultural and service sectors, and small group discussions with the speakers. In addition, conference participants will discuss creating a university-community-labor partnership in support of immigrant workers in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area.
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