CIJ Events

Immigration Policy Forum – Panel I: New Jersey and Inclusion Initiatives, Then and Now (4/26/19)

Immigration Policy Forum – Keynote by The Hon. Gurbir Grewal, NJ Attorney General (4/26/19)

Immigration Policy Forum – Panel II: The Future of Immigrant Youths in New Jersey (4/26/19)

Immigration Policy Forum – Panel III: Towards More Inclusive State and Local Policies (4/26/19)

In celebration of Black History Month, The Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice and Association of Black Students are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Martha Jones on “Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.”

Help create a new sanctuary coalition in Newark! Join an advocacy training with Ravi Ragbir on November 28th!

This event is co-sponsored by the following Rutgers University-Newark groups and departments: English Department * The Honors College Student Council * Human Rights Working Group * Latina/o Working Group * Immigrants’ Rights Collective * RU Dreamers * Rutgers Law School Public Interest and Pro Bono Office * Undocumented Students Services, Office of the Dean of Students *

The Rutgers Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice hosted its inaugural Distinguished Immigration and Citizenship Lecture featuring Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. The event started at 6 p.m. in the Center for Law and Justice at 123 Washington St. in Newark.

Vargas talked about his book, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.”

The event kicked off with a book signing, followed by welcoming remarks and a Question and Answer session  from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Books were also available for purchase.

This colloquium examines the use of religious liberty rights to protect undocumented immigrants.  Speakers include Professor Katherine Franke from Columbia Law School, Amy Gottlieb, Associate Regional Director of American Friends Service Committee, Jason Cortes, Associate Professor and Program Director, American Studies, Rutgers University, and Jorge Contesse, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School.

In this Colloquium, speakers analyze how federal immigration laws and enforcement mechanisms separate immigrant families and examine ways that lawyers and advocates have sought to bring families together.

Speakers include Marco Castillo, an anthropologist and immigrant rights advocate and Professor Janice Gallagher (Asst. Professor, Political Science) discuss their project that bring families together through cultural programs. Discussants Prof. Randi Mandelbaum (Rutgers Law) and Erin Sweeny (former consular officer and current first year law student at Rutgers) offered legal and administrative context.

This discussion kicks off the CILPJ’s “Colloquium on Sanctuary,” which examines the legal, political, historical, cultural and economic meaning of the term “sanctuary.”

In this colloquium, Professor Whit Strub and Professor Mary Rizzo, both of the History Department, discusses how the presence of a detention center in Newark complicates the city’s self-declaration as a “sanctuary city.”

Professor Rose Cuison Villazor and Professor Sahar Aziz discussed the historical and contemporary relevance of the “Chinese Exclusion Act” after the screening of the film.

The Chinese Exclusion Act is a documentary film by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu that examines the 1882 law that prevented Chinese workers from coming to America and precluded Chinese nationals in the U.S. from attaining citizenship.