Section on Immigration Law
San Diego Salon A, North Tower/Lobby Level, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
Crossing Borders, Creating Borders: Nations, Migrants, and Constuctions of Law
The location of this year's AALS Annual Meeting invites us to focus upon the question of borders. This panel will consider how national borders are both creatures of legal fiction and materially real, with life and death consequences. We will examine concrete issues facing migrants along both the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders. Our panel will also feature speakers addressing the question of borders from the disciplines of history and anthropology. Speakers will address the history of the Border Patrol in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and will describe anthropological approaches to the legal lives of Salvadoran youth and to immigration detention.
Business Meeting at Program conclusion.
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