Paper/Proposal Title
Witnessing Workshop: Central Americanists Serving as Experts in U.S. Immigration Courts
Location
Keller Hall and online
Start Date
12-4-2021 9:00 AM
End Date
12-4-2021 12:30 PM
Abstract
Over the past several decades, increasing numbers of academic researchers in anthropology, political science, sociology, and other fields have come to play important roles in immigration court hearings for asylum and withholding of removal. In the past decade in particular, specialists in Central America have increasingly served in this capacity, requiring familiarity with new genres of writing, modes of argumentation and evidence, and skills to navigate the institutional and political complexities of the courts as well as the broader system.
As they learn to do this work, expert witnesses can benefit from intentional professional development in this area and meaningful dialogue with other witnesses and immigration lawyers about practices and techniques. This workshop affords experts a focused and intentional space to share experiences and improve practice in this area.
Witnessing Workshop: Central Americanists Serving as Experts in U.S. Immigration Courts
Keller Hall and online
Over the past several decades, increasing numbers of academic researchers in anthropology, political science, sociology, and other fields have come to play important roles in immigration court hearings for asylum and withholding of removal. In the past decade in particular, specialists in Central America have increasingly served in this capacity, requiring familiarity with new genres of writing, modes of argumentation and evidence, and skills to navigate the institutional and political complexities of the courts as well as the broader system.
As they learn to do this work, expert witnesses can benefit from intentional professional development in this area and meaningful dialogue with other witnesses and immigration lawyers about practices and techniques. This workshop affords experts a focused and intentional space to share experiences and improve practice in this area.
