EVENT SERIES - REFUGEE LAW CLINIC HAMBURG: US Immigration Law and Policy – A Critical Overview in an Election Year

30. April 2024

Similar to developments in Europe, US immigration policies increasingly respond to asylum seekers by extending enforcement well beyond the border. At the same time, asylum seekers who reach the United States face formidable barriers to invoking protections in U.S. and international law. 

What is currently happening in US asylum law and policy? How is asylum part of US immigration law in general? How are people on the move responding? How do the upcoming U.S. presidential elections affect the answers?

Prof. Hiroshi Motomura will discuss these questions with us and put current asylum controversies in the United States into the broader context of migration debates more generally.

Hiroshi Motomura is the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of two books, Americans in Waiting and Immigration Outside the Law, with a third book, Borders and Belonging, to be published by Oxford University Press in late 2024 or early 2025.

When? Thursday, 02.05.24, 6 pm

Where? VMP 8 Erziehungswissenschaften – Room 206, Von-Melle-Park 8, 20146 HH

Flyer (PDF)