Immigration Debate Focus of Hispanic Heritage Month
September 21, 2006. Associate Dean Kevin Johnson will present his paper, "Hurricane Katrina: Lessons About Immigrants in the Modern Administrative State," at a public lecture on September 21, 2006, at Ithaca College as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. He analyzes the impact of the hurricane on immigrants, who were often invisible in the aftermath of the disaster. "Federal, state and local governments treated immigrants harshly in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and political failure within administration agencies contributed to this treatment," Johnson says. He believes Hurricane Katrina is symptomatic of a more general problem in the governance of the United States.
Johnson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Mabie-Apallas Public Interest Professor of Law and Chicana/o Studies at the UC Davis School of Law. He is a specialist in civil rights and immigration law, and he has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights.
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
September 7, 2006/News Release
http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=1997
Johnson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Mabie-Apallas Public Interest Professor of Law and Chicana/o Studies at the UC Davis School of Law. He is a specialist in civil rights and immigration law, and he has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights.
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
September 7, 2006/News Release
http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=1997