A Conversation with Bill Ong Hing
Professor Bill Ong Hing speaks about the current public debate on immigration at the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (NYRAG). During a funder's briefing, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Four Freedoms Fund, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, Fund for New Citizens in the New York Community Trust, and the Open Society Institute, Hing will speak about what is lost in the current immigration debate--the inhumanity of the entire system, from treatment of undocumented immigrants, to family immigration backlogs, to deportation, asylum, and border policies, and to the lack of affirmative immigrant-integration policies. Hing will also present fresh ideas from his new book, Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy, which focuses on strategies to address today's most pressing unresolved concerns.
Hing is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies. He teaches Judicial Process, Negotiations, Public Service Strategies, Asian American History, and directs the Law School clinical program. Throughout his career, he has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented books and articles on immigration policy and race relations. His books include Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple Univ. Press 2004), Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford Press 1993), Handling Immigration Cases (Aspen Publishers 1995), and Immigration and the Lawa Dictionary (ABC-CLIO 1999). His book To Be An American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (NYU Press 1997) received the award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by the librarians journal Choice. He is on the board of directors of the Asian Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute. He also serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center.
The NYRAG funder's briefing takes place at the Ford Foundation on January 18, 2007, from 9:00-11:00 AM. The Ford Foundation is located at 320 E. 43rd Street (between Second Avenue and Tudor City Place). There is no fee, but advance registration is required by January 12. RSVP to Mary DeCaro at [email protected].
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Hing is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies. He teaches Judicial Process, Negotiations, Public Service Strategies, Asian American History, and directs the Law School clinical program. Throughout his career, he has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented books and articles on immigration policy and race relations. His books include Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple Univ. Press 2004), Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford Press 1993), Handling Immigration Cases (Aspen Publishers 1995), and Immigration and the Lawa Dictionary (ABC-CLIO 1999). His book To Be An American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (NYU Press 1997) received the award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by the librarians journal Choice. He is on the board of directors of the Asian Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute. He also serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center.
The NYRAG funder's briefing takes place at the Ford Foundation on January 18, 2007, from 9:00-11:00 AM. The Ford Foundation is located at 320 E. 43rd Street (between Second Avenue and Tudor City Place). There is no fee, but advance registration is required by January 12. RSVP to Mary DeCaro at [email protected].
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