The Detention Dilemma: Families, Security and Immigrant Rights

Presented by the Center for New York City Affairs, Feet in Two Worlds, Global Studies and the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship. 

Recent reports draw attention to the continuing expansion and privatization of immigrant detention centers and violations of immigrants' rights throughout the process of detention and deportation. What are the effects on individuals who spend months or years in detention, and on their families? Can the detention system do a better job of balancing the country's core values as a nation of immigrants and promoter of human rights with concerns regarding the enforcement of existing laws and border security?

Featuring a keynote from Maria Hinojosa, of the PBS FRONTLINE documentary Lost in Detention; President & CEO, Futuro Media Group 

Followed by a conversation with: 

Amy Gottlieb, Attorney and Program Director of the Immigrant Rights Program at the American Friends Service Committee 

Jackie Vimo, Director of Advocacy, New York Immigration Council 

Valeria Fernandez, Independent Journalist 

and others 

Moderated by: 
John Rudolph, Executive Producer, Feet in Two Worlds 

Admission is free but you must reserve a seat. Please email centernyc@newschool.edu to RSVP. 
Feet in Two Worlds is supported by New York Community Trust, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Milano Foundation and the Sirus Fund.

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