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- 2024 CARES Symposium - Supporting Asylum Seekers and Immigrants: An Intersectionality of Immigration and State Law
- For its fourth annual symposium, the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) will shed light on important legal issues immigrants face while navigating the immigration system, including legal topics that affect them while their immigration applications are pending or for those who do not have a pathway to legalization. The United States’s immigration system is very complicated since the interpretation and application of immigration laws vary significantly by state and city. Other issues facing asylum seekers include lengthy application wait times–which can take years, up to almost a decade–and the millions of cases that are backlogged in our system, which create uncertainty for immigrants and their families. Participants will learn how immigrants are affected by laws in health, family, labor and more.
- 2023 CARES Symposium - Immigrant Justice: Building Sanctuary in Philadelphia
- For its third annual symposium, the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) will focus on organizing efforts surrounding the sanctuary movement in Philadelphia. The symposium will center on The Road to Sanctuary: Building Power and Community in Philadelphia by Amanda Armenta, Caitlin Barry and Abel Rodríguez. It will explore sanctuary in its various forms, including sanctuary city policies, organizing for sanctuary, and sanctuary within the context of the criminal justice system.
