The Party of Practicality: An Innovative and Pragmatic Conversation on Immigration, Part II
ÌýIf You Go
Date:ÌýNovember 13, 2020
Time:Ìý12:00PM
Where:ÌýVirtual
The Center of the American West teamed up with theÌýCU Latinx Law StudentsÌýto orchestrate a virtual event, that brought two noted scholars of immigration into a consequential conversation. The goal was ambitious: to lay out terms that will position these knowledgeable scholars as allies and teammates of a dedicated public servant who is committed to finding solutions and resolutions to one of the nation’s most challenging issues. Here were the bedrock questions for this discussion: a) If Congress were to prove able to reform immigration policy in a post-election arrangement of authority, what should be the top priorities for such reform? b) What are the most beneficial ways to mobilize historical understanding to improve the quality of public discussion of immigration and to guide national legislators as they deliberate? c) What are the most notable mistaken impressions of the roles played by immigrants in the nation, and what are the most effective channels of communication for correcting those misapprehensions?
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Party of Practicality Participants
ProfessorÌýMary Mendoza, Penn State University, author ofÌýUnnatural Border: Race and Environment at the U.S.-Mexico DivideÌý(in progress)
Sociology ProfessorÌýTomás Jiménez, Stanford University, author ofÌýReplenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and IdentityÌý(2010) and ofÌýThe Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American LifeÌý(2017)
Moderator:ÌýPatty Limerick, Faculty Director of the Center of the American West
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