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From Classroom to Courtroom: How Anthropology Informs Immigration Justice

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

On Thursday, October 30, from 12:30-1:45pm, in the Maxwell Library Heritage Room, Emily Brunelle will deliver From Classroom to Courtroom: How Anthropology Informs Immigration Justice.  

Emily Brunelle is a BSU alumna who earned a degree in Anthropology and now works as an immigration paralegal at the Justice Center, a legal aid non-profit in Brockton serving all of southeast Massachusetts. Emily’s position combines traditional paralegal work–such as assisting attorneys with cases in immigration court like asylum and special visas for survivors of domestic violence and youth–with community engagement activities to collaborate with local immigrant organizations and other community partners. This includes working as a local leader for the LUCE Immigration Justice Network of MA, which is a coalition of immigrant-led grassroots organizations that builds power in immigrant communities and fights to defend our communities from ICE. Emily’s experiences at BSU have helped informed her work as a non-immigrant who chooses to be in community with and stand with immigrants in an unjust legal system.

Sponsored by the Global Migration Program, the event is open to the BSU community and the public.


From Classroom to Courtroom: How Anthropology Informs Immigr