Unpacking Immigration & Disability Justice
October 10, 2019
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2
Address
803 S. Morgan St., IL 60607
Cost
Free
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Presented by the UIC Disability Cultural Center and Latino Cultural Center
In the years of the Trump presidency, the administration’s immigration policies have precipitated a humanitarian crisis at the border. More recently, the administration has doubled-down, releasing a new “public charge” policy that makes legal immigration impossible for disabled people, harkening back to the eugenic practices of early 20th century America. Immigration policy in the Trump era has reminded us that immigration is a disability justice issue and that ableism intersects with racism and xenophobia to disenfranchise disabled immigrants of color.
Join us for a presentation and dialogue with legal scholar Katherine Pérez who will help us unpack these intersecting issues.
FREE refreshments and admission
Wheelchair accessible
Lunch Discussion
Wednesday, October 11, 2019 from 12pm to 1:30pm
Contact dcc@uic.edu or 312-355-7050 to join!
Katherine Pérez is the Director of the Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Pérez is an attorney and scholar who writes about disability and immigration law and policy. She is a doctoral candidate in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is writing a dissertation on the experiences of undocumented Latinx college students with disabilities.
This program is co-sponsored by the UIC Disability Resource Center and Latin American Recruitment and Education Services (LARES).
CART and ASL will be provided. UIC is not a fragrance free campus, but we ask that attendees refrain from wearing fragrance. For more access info or access requests, email dcc@uic.edu or call 312-355-7050.
Date posted
Sep 13, 2019
Date updated
Apr 14, 2020