29 min
Movement Lawyering and Immigrant Racial Justice The Other Side of the Water: Immigration and the Promise of Racial Justice
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- Documentary
In episode five, host Ellie Happel returns to explore past and current approaches in organizing, activism, and movement lawyering to vindicate the promise of equal protection for immigrants of color. Featured guests—organizer Ninaj Raoul, Executive Director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, and attorney Sejal Zota, Co-Founder and Legal Director of Just Futures Law—discuss how social movements are essential to legal progress, sharing lessons from the 1990s movement for Haitian immigrant rights and more recent organizing to challenge increasingly oppressive immigration laws.
In episode five, host Ellie Happel returns to explore past and current approaches in organizing, activism, and movement lawyering to vindicate the promise of equal protection for immigrants of color. Featured guests—organizer Ninaj Raoul, Executive Director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, and attorney Sejal Zota, Co-Founder and Legal Director of Just Futures Law—discuss how social movements are essential to legal progress, sharing lessons from the 1990s movement for Haitian immigrant rights and more recent organizing to challenge increasingly oppressive immigration laws.
29 min