Boston University International Law Journal Workshop:

Fortress (North) America

Boston University International Law Journal Workshop
Friday March 12th 9am – 12pm
Saturday March 13th 12pm – 3pm

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Workshop Schedule (Please note Schedule changes as of 3/10/21)

Workshop organizers: Tally Kritzman-Amir, Daniela Caruso, Tyler Heneghan

The Workshop is co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law Immigration Law Interest Group.

For several years immigration scholars have engaged in a critical and robust discussion on “Fortress Europe,”  studying the social, political, legal, technological and military measures that allowed the transition of Europe into a citadel against immigration, which excludes migrants through the use of a variety of legal mechanisms and agreements, physical barriers, military force and advanced surveillance technology. Through a comparative perspective and through the lens of international law, the webinar seeks to explore, the parallels of the process of fortification of the U.S. Relevant U.S. policies include the Migration Protection Protocol (MPP); the Asylum Cooperative Agreements (ACA) with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador; the Travel Bans of 2017-2018 and the COVID-19 related travel and immigration restrictions; and the growing reliance on immigration detention – even at the heavy cost of family separation – and on advanced technologies. The compounded effect of those measures means effectively blocking many avenues of documented and undocumented migration, and rendering the protection granted to refugees and asylum seekers quite minimal. The papers presented in this workshop will look to examine the fortification of North America.

Workshop Agenda

Friday March 12

Panels moderated by Nicholas Micinski  (Boston University Center for the Study of Europe)

9 am – “Empathy Destruction – A Lethal Spinoff of Failed Migration Policies”
Jacqueline Bhabha (Harvard School of Public Health)
Discussant: Julie Dahlstrom (Boston University School of Law)

10 am – “Forced Disappearances: From Authoritarianism to Border Violence”
Itamar Mann (Haifa University Faculty of Law), Valentina Azarova (Manchester International Law Center, University of Manchester), Amanda Brown (UCLA School of Law)
Discussant: Kaija Schilde (Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies)

11 am – “Challenging Stereotypes in Refugee Protection”
Sabrineh Ardalan (Harvard Law School)
Discussant: Rachel Rosenbloom (Northeastern University School of Law)

Saturday March 13

Panels moderated by Ioannis Kalpouzos (Boston University School of Law)

12 pm – “Unraveling: Trump, The ‘End’ of Asylum, and the Prospects of Restoring Lost Time”
Rebecca Hamlin (University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Political Science)
Discussant: Noora Lori (Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies)

1 pm – “A Comparative Perspective on Safe Third and First Country of Asylum Policies in Europe and the Americas: Legal Norms, Principles and Lessons Learned”
Susan Akram (Boston University School of Law), Elizabeth Ruddick (Solicitor, London, England)
Discussant: Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto Faculty of Law)

This event will be presented as a Zoom Meeting.

For questions about physical accessibility or to request a communication-related accommodation ( e.g. ASL Interpreters, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART); assistive listening devices; hearing or induction loops), please contact (lawevent@bu.edu). Please submit requests for accommodations as soon as possible, ideally no later than 10 business days prior to the event.

Draft Papers

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