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Immigration

Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Leutert

August 20, 2019

BY SUSANNA SHARPE STEPHANIE LEUTERT IS NOT AFRAID to make a cold call and she does not shy away from difficult questions. If she wants to learn more about an issue, she will often pick up the phone to ask an expert. These qualities, along with a deep sense of justice and humanity, have led her to … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Leutert

Tagged With: Human Rights, Immigration, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Mexico Security Initiative, migration, Richard Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Stephanie Leutert

So Close Yet So Far: How a Group of Deportees Is Building Rapport in Mexico City

August 20, 2019

Leer en español. BY ALVARO CÉSPEDES Ana Laura López, 43, was about to board a plane from Chicago to Mexico City on September 30, 2016. She remembers the date clearly, as her life would never be the same again. “I never thought this was going to happen to me,” said López, sitting on a couch … [Read more...] about So Close Yet So Far: How a Group of Deportees Is Building Rapport in Mexico City

Tagged With: Alvaro Cespedes, Deportados Unidos, deportation, Immigration, Mexico City, Student Research

On the Road with Barbara Hines: UT Students Visit Karnes Family Detention Facility

August 28, 2017

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT BY SUSANNA SHARPE It’s 7:30 on a Saturday morning. Barbara Hines has parked a large white van outside the law school at The University of Texas at Austin. Inside a small hallway of the school, a slightly sleepy group of students begins to assemble. Some are law students, … [Read more...] about On the Road with Barbara Hines: UT Students Visit Karnes Family Detention Facility

Tagged With: Barbara Hines, Central America, Family detention, Human Rights, Immigration, Texas Law

Derechos en Crisis: A Conference at the Frontier of Activism and Scholarship

August 5, 2016

BY RUTH ELIZABETH VELÁSQUEZ ESTRADA We became conscious of the right to have rights and of the right to belong to an organized community only when millions of people had lost their rights, and could no longer recuperate them.     —Agustín Estrada Negrete, political asylee and immigrant rights … [Read more...] about Derechos en Crisis: A Conference at the Frontier of Activism and Scholarship

Tagged With: Central America, Human Rights, Immigration, Lozano Long Conference, migrants, neoliberalism, refugees, Student Research, Velásquez Estrada

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