Book Talks

The Shared Parish: Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of US Catholicism

As faith communities in the United States grow more diverse due, in large part, to immigration, increasing numbers of Catholic parishes are being “shared” by distinct cultural groups who retain their own ministries and styles of worship. Today, it is...

Immigration Outside the Law: A Conversation with Hiroshi Motomura and Lawrence Downes

On November 10, 2014, New York Times Editorial Writer Lawrence Downes spoke with UCLA Law Professor Hiroshi Motomura on his new book, Immigration Outside the Law. The publication, which is a follow-up to Professor Motomura’s award-winning book Americans in Waiting, offers...

Lives in the Balance: A Study of 14 Years of Asylum Adjudication by the US Department of Homeland Security

With the encouragement of Asylum Office Headquarters, Professors Philip G. Schrag and Andrew Schoenholtz (Georgetown University Law Center) and Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple University) have spent the last three years studying the asylum adjudication database of the United States Department of...

Forum and Book Release: On Strangers No Longer

Ten years ago, Catholic bishops of the United States and Mexico began to meet informally to discuss mutual concerns regarding increased migration between the two neighboring countries. Troubled by migrant deaths, family separation, and other human consequences of migration, the...

Deportation Law and the Swelling Number of Deportees from the United States

Since passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), the United States has deported millions of noncitizens. While the rights of immigrants and proposals to legalize the unauthorized have been the subject of much debate,...