IMPRISONED, FORGOTTEN, AND DEPORTED:
Immigration Detention, Advocacy, and the Faith Community
October 13-14, 2011
Loyola University, New Orleans
The conference was jointly co-sponsored by the UF Center for Latin American Studies, the Jesuit Social Research Institute, the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Loyola University. The Ford Foundation is provided major funding for the event.
The conference was built on work of the Center’s Initiative for Immigration, Religion, and Social Change in the US South with support from the Ford Foundation. The goals of the conference were: 1) to raise public awareness of the realities of (immigrant) detention in the South and understand its major elements; 2) to engage scholars and the university communities more deeply in the detention reality in the South; 3) to assess the impact of (immigrant) detention on faith communities and develop a more comprehensive faith/theological framework for looking at and responding to detention; 4) to expand advocacy strategies for dealing with detention and explore alternatives to detention; and 5) to re-frame public policy regarding the detention of unauthorized immigrants and native-born minorities.
In order to achieve these goals, the conference organizers convened a diverse group of policy and opinion makers, graduate and undergraduate students, lawyers, members of faith communities, activists, leaders in the local African-American and Latino communities, as well as scholars of immigration and religion.
Watch Conference Sessions Online!
Video footage of the conference is available on YouTube. Please click on the links below to access the YouTube footage of the corresponding conference sessions.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Philip J. Williams, Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Dean Maria Pabón López, Dean, Loyola University College of Law
Keynote Address: The Economics of Prison and Immigration Law
Laura Sullivan, National Public Radio
Panel One: The Realities of Immigrant Detention: Politics and Economics
Moderator: Aaron Schneider, Tulane University
Panelists: Dora Schriro, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction
Bob Libal, Grassroots Leadership, Texas
Alger Kendall, Jr, retired judge, Karnes County, TX
Omar Hassan, former detainee
Interviewed by Sue Weishar, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University
Panel Two: Race, Illegality, and Detention
Moderator: Manuel Vásquez, University of Florida
Panelists: Tamara Nopper, Temple University
Ted Quant, Twomey Center, Loyola University
Alex Mikulich, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University
Kenneth Nunn, University of Florida Law School
Friday, October 14, 2011
Keynote Address: A Liberationist Response to Immigrant Detention
Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, Denver
Panel Three: Religious Responses to Detention
Moderator: Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Emory University
Panelists: Anton Flores, Alterna, Atlanta
Rev. David Fraccaro, Faith Action International House, NC
Sister Jo Ann Persch, Sisters of Mercy, Chicago
Panel Four: Advocacy Strategies
Moderator: Sue Weishar, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University
Panelists: Bill Quigley, Loyola University College of Law
Mary Baudouin, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University
Jacinta Gonzales, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
Hiroko Kusuda, Loyola University Immigration Law Clinic
Keynote Panel: Changing the Conversation in the Public Square
Moderator: Timothy J. Steigenga, Florida Atlantic University
Panelists: Frank Sharry, America’s Voice
Donald Kerwin, Center for Migration Studies
Andrea Black, Detention Watch Network
Fr. Fred Kammer, SJ, Director, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University
