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Presenters: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Pratheepan Gulasekaram
In the flurry of local and state laws addressing immigration over the past decade, legislation has shifted from the Arizona-type laws that encourage "self-deportation" to California-style laws that promote immigrant integration. Ramakrishnan and Gulasekaram discuss this evolving era of immigration federalism and which laws are effective and why.
Gulasekaram and Ramakrishnan will discuss these and other topics from their new book from Cambridge University Press, The New Immigration Federalism
Pratheepan Gulasekaram is Associate Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He has published widely on immigration federalism and the constitutional rights of noncitizens both in popular media platforms and prominent legal journals. Before entering academia, Gulasekaram clerked for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. He earned his BA at Brown University and his JD at Stanford Law School.
Karthick Ramakrishnan is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He directs the National Asian American Survey and AAPI Data, and has written numerous books and articles on civic participation and immigration policy. Ramakrishnan is founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) and provides frequent commentary on immigration and politics in news stories and op eds. He earned his BA at Brown University and his PhD at Princeton University.
