Busboys and Poets Books Presents IMMIGRATION MATTERS
Date and Time
Oct 8, 2021 5:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Oct 8, 2021 5:30 pm
14th & V
IMMIGRATION MATTERS offers a reset for the past decade of right-wing nativists and the damage Trump wrought on immigration rights in the United States. Bringing together key movement leaders and academics, IMMIGRATION MATTERS deep dives into the xenophobic arguments you hear the far right espouse everyday, not only disspelling the lies behind them but going above and beyond the portray the message: immigrants are as American as apple pie. IMMIGRATION MATTERS is the perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and the everyday citizen who cares. This event is free and open to all, accessible through our Facebook and Youtube pages (@busboysandpoets).
Please RSVP if you are joining us in person or are interested in purchasing a signed book with shipping (limited to those tuning in via livestream)
The program will begin at 5:30 PM with a half hour of socializing and time to settle into your seats before an introduction from Busboys and Poets Books Director of Operations, Lori Barrientos Sanchez, before we get right into it with the following contributors joining us: editor Ruth Milkman, editor Deepak Bhargava, contributor Cecilia Muñoz, and contributor Lorella Praeli. There will be time for Q&A with the audience before the end of the program, as well as the opportunity to purchase a copy of IMMIGRATION MATTERS for the editors and contributors to sign the night of!
IMMIGRATION MATTERS: MOVEMENTS, VISIONS, AND STRATEGIES FOR A PROGRESSIVE FUTURE - During the past decade, right-wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation’s foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset.
Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy. It brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community, along with fresh solutions to vexing questions of so-called “future flows” that have bedeviled policy makers for decades. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation’s identity, its economy, and progressive movements for social change. Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers’ rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement.
The perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age, Immigration Matters makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future.
Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the co-editor (with Deepak Bhargava and Penny Lewis) of Immigration Matters: : Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future (The New Press).
Deepak Bhargava is Distinguished Lecturer in Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and was previously president of the Center for Community Change. He is the co-editor (with Ruth Milkman and Penny Lewis) of Immigration Matters: : Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future (The New Press).
Cecilia Muñoz is an immigration policy expert and activist who served as Domestic Policy Advisor in the Obama White House and is currently a Senior Advisor at New America in Washington, DC. She is a contributor to Immigration Matters and is the author of More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise.
Lorella Praeli is co-President of Community Change. Lorella is passionate about building collective power to win transformative policy change at all levels of government so that people can thrive. Most recently, she was the ACLU’s Deputy National Political Director, where she fought to defend and expand the rights of immigrants and refugees. Prior to joining the ACLU, Lorella mobilized the Latinx vote as Hillary Clinton’s National Latino Vote Director and served as United We Dream’s Director of Advocacy and Policy, where she led the campaign to implement DACA and was part of the team that persuaded the Obama administration to protect four million undocumented Americans through DAPA. Lorella is a freedom fighter, movement builder, and adaptive athlete.
