U.S. Immigration Policy and Refugee Resettlement

Friday, April 21, 2017
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College and University Educators Workshops

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, university professor and director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School; Camille J. Mackler, director of legal initiatives at the New York Immigration Coalition; Eric Schwartz, dean of the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs; and Alexandra Fuenmayor Starr, visiting journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation, discuss immigration policy and refugee resettlement in the United States, as a part of the 2017 College and University Educators Workshop. 

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