A roundtable discussion of legal issues surrounding immigration enforcement and the epidemic of mass incarceration featuring:

• Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow and a faculty member at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

• César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Capital University and University of Denver

• Silky Shah, Co-Executive Director of Detention Watch Network

This event is part of “50 Years Later,” a series that marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. The series examines the historical context and current legacies of this act. Particularly, it highlights the varied and contradictory meanings of this bill for different migrant populations.

Sponsored by the OSU College of Social Work, the OSU Department of Comparative Studies, the OSU Criminal Justice Research Center, the OSU Department of Political Science, the Latina/o Studies Program at OSU, the Migration and Global Justice Workshop Series, sponsored by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the OSU Multicultural Center, the OSU Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the OSU Student Bar Association, and Asian American Studies at OSU.

Free and open to the public.

Contact: Keith Kilty, kilty.1@osu.edu