About
This event will examine the socio-juridical process by which anti-immigrant discourse is normalized, how laws shaped by that discourse limit access to justice for migrants, and how immigration lawyers work to destabilize these narratives and challenge the limits on their clients' claims for justice.
J.C. Salyer uses ethnographic and legal analysis to engage with the specific laws and procedures that mandate harsh and inhumane outcomes for migrants in the U.S. immigration enforcement system.
Comments will be offered by Professor Cecilia Bailliet (UiO).
About the participants
J.C. Salyer
Salyer is the director of the human rights program at Barnard College, Columbia University and is assistant professor of practice in anthropology and human rights at Barnard. Salyer is also a staff attorney for the Arab American Family Support Center, a community-based organization in Brooklyn, New York, where he runs the organization's immigration clinic.
Cecilia Bailliet
Bailliet is a professor of law at the Department of Public and International Law University of Oslo. Bailliet teaches Refugee & Asylum Law and has extensive research in the field, addressing a span of topics ranging from conscientious objectors and deserters who seek asylum to the impact of harmful traditional practices upon women. Her work has directly been implemented within UNHCR guidelines. Most recently, the UN Audio Visual Library of International Law recorded her lectures on Refugee Law.