Immigration Justice
Here you will find educational sessions that cover topics of detention and deportation, asylum seekers and refugees.
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Trauma-Informed Care When Serving Asylum Seekers
As physicians and physicians in training, our work with asylum seekers can promote their healing while also help them successfully navigate the immigration system. By definition, asylum seekers have endured unspeakable traumas, both in their countries of origin, and then in their journey to the US and again once in the US, perhaps in ICE jails and then through a very adversarial immigration system. I have learned over the years how to be part of the healing process during this very difficult time in their lives.
Imperialism, Migration, and Homonationalism: The Impact on LGBTQ+ Migrants
This session examines the intersections of western imperialism and homonationalism culminating in savior mentalities that are well-ingrained within western nations’ immigration and asylum systems. This session will use the U.S. as a case study, and focus on how American foreign policy is an exertion of dominance against other nations for cheap labor and resources through war, exploitative trade and labor agreements, and covert operations. The U.S. refuses to acknowledge its role in necessitating migration while largely barring entry to migrants. By focusing on the impact of U.S. immigration policy on LGBTQ+ migrants, we can have a more granular conversation about these larger phenomena. The Chicago People’s Rights Collaborative co-hosts with Dr. Fobear to discuss how we fight these larger phenomena at interpersonal, organizational, and structural levels. Finally, this session discusses our complicity in these structures of violence, and how we can build transnational solidarity and move towards collective liberation.
Prisons/Policing/Incarceration
Here you will find educational sessions that cover topics of prisons, policing and incarceration.