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Refugees Welcome? Fuchs Endowed Lecture with Leti Volpp

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This lecture examines a sign and its transatlantic migration. Created by Caltrans in 1990 as a highway safety sign and posted along the I-5 in Southern California, the symbol of immigrants running re-emerged under the banner of “Refugees Welcome” in football stadiums in Germany in late August, 2015. I will map the meanings and movement of this particular sign. Tracing this image’s circulation and its transformations illuminates how immigration and refugee policy in both the United States and Germany has been shaped by dramatic events in recent months.

Leti Volpp is the Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice at Berkely Law.

Volpp is a well-known scholar in law and the humanities. She writes about citizenship, migration, culture and identity. Her most recent publications include “The Indigenous As Alien” in the UC Irvine Law Review(2015), “Saving Muslim Women” in Public Books (2015), “Civility and the Undocumented Alien” in Civility, Legality, and Justice in America (Austin Sarat, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2014), “The Boston Bombers" in Fordham Law Review (2014), "Imaginings of Space in Immigration Law" in Law, Culture and the Humanities (2012), the edited symposium issue "Denaturalizing Citizenship: A Symposium on Linda Bosniak's The Citizen and the Alien and Ayelet Shachar's The Birthright Lottery" in Issues in Legal Scholarship (2011), and "Framing Cultural Difference: Immigrant Women and Discourses of Tradition" indifferences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (2011). She is the editor of Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (with Mary Dudziak) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). She is also the author of "The Culture of Citizenship" in Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2007), "The Citizen and the Terrorist" in UCLA Law Review (2002), "Feminism versus Multiculturalism" in the Columbia Law Review(2001), and many other articles.
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