Aoki Center Blog

[Cross-post from CalMatters]

By Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies

With 2024 campaigns heating up, immigration politics are as well, and we can expect the election cycle to bring much fire and brimstone. Sadly, as has long been the case in U.S. history, immigrants will likely suffer as a result of the political maneuverings.   

By Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies

By Yoxira Espinoza '22, Aoki Legal Fellow

Aggie Black Excellence is presenting a book talk titled "Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: African Identities - Past and Present." The UC Davis Law Aoki Center is co-sponsoring the event that will take place Wednesday, June 21 at the Manetti Shrem Museum from 2:30-3:30 p.m.

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By Yoxira Espinoza '22, Aoki Legal Fellow

By Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies

Last week, the Biden administration lifted the Title 42 order put in place by President Trump, which for several years had in effect closed the U.S./Mexico border to migrants. Rather than a feared stampede at the border, the end of Title 42 simply returned the border to the system that has stumbled along for decades. The task before the nation now is how to reform that system so that it responds effectively and efficiently to manage the 21st century of global migration.

By Raquel E. Aldana, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Aoki Center on Critical Race and Nation Studies

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." – Dr. Martin Luther King