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Summer 2019 Newsletter and MHRP Annual Report Volume 13 | Issue 1 | Summer 2019 2019 Summer Newsletter and 2018-19 Migration & Human Rights Project Annual Report in this issue Letter from the Co-directors 2 About Us 3 Center News & Notes 4 MHRP Annual Report 5 Student Awards 13 Center Events 14 Fall 2019 Events 20 www.bc.edu/humanrights 1 Center for Human Rights and International Justice | Summer 2019 Letter from the Co-directors Dear Friends, law. These include a “Remain in Mexico” fought for and upheld in our courts of law. Read policy, long delays and practices of “turn- more about our recent celebration with García We write in the midst of unprecedented Trump ing back” potential asylum seekers at US of this long journey to justice elsewhere in this administration assaults on basic norms of fair- ports of entry, leaving asylum seekers in report. ness, decency, and humanity in immigration perilous conditions in Mexican border cit- enforcement and beyond. As many are now ies such as Ciudad Juárez, where they are Center co-director M. Brinton Lykes also saw aware, brutally harsh, cynical tactics are espe- easily targeted for theft and violence while the publication of a book this year, co-authored cially acute at and near the borders of the US, they endure significant wait times for a with York University Professor Alison Crosby, but threats of major deportation operations and hearing date in the US. The administration which is a product of their partnership in the the internal expansion of “expedited removal” is also pursuing a patently illegal – and his- Center’s Gender and Reparations: Understand- have also caused fear and stress in communi- torically peculiar – effort to turn Guatema- ing Women’s Struggles for Justice, Histori- ties throughout the United States. As the ad- la into a “safe third country” from which cal Memory, and Redress project. The book, ministration continues to seek additional ways all migrants from Central America and Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism to be punitive and cruel to migrants trying to beyond must apply to the US for asylum. in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm, (https:// seek safety and livelihood in our country, it is The motivations of the administration are www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/beyond-repair/ hard to keep up with each new development. quite clear. As a National Security Council 9780813598963) explores Mayan women’s We struggle daily to not be daunted or over- official stated in an email to Customs and agency in their search for redress for harm suf- whelmed by shock, sadness, and anger. Still, Border Patrol, “My mantra has persistently fered during the genocidal violence perpetrated we are re-invigorated to sustain the mission of been presenting aliens [sic] with multiple by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at our Center and to collaborate with our students unsolvable dilemmas to impact their cal- the height of the 36-year armed conflict in the in ways that position them to meet an array of culus for choosing to make the arduous country. The book documents eight years of the challenges. Among recent phenomena that journey to begin with.” (italics ours) Such authors’ feminist participatory action research have demanded responses are the following: policies violate the longstanding tradition alongside 54 Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and of asylum in this country as a life-affirm- Mam women seeking reparations for sexual • The dangerous overcrowding in Border ing tool to protect extremely vulnerable and racialized gendered violence, as well as in Patrol facilities in El Paso, as detailed in people from harm and death. partnership with an interdisciplinary team of an emergency report by the DHS Office of feminist activists, psychologists and attorneys the Inspector General in May 2019, with In the face of these developments, the Center working with the authors for over a decade. up to 900 people being held in a facility has resolutely continued our work that lifts up Lykes and Crosby presented the book at events designed to hold 125. Along with other pol- and fights for basic human rights. We contin- this past spring in Boston and Toronto, the icies, this has contributed to the death of ue to collaborate with colleagues in Guatema- former of which may be read about in an arti- six children; la, frequently assisting in seeking detained or cle in this issue and viewed at https://tinyurl. • Children in detention are being denied ba- disappeared migrants from the Quiché region com/LykesCrosbyBC. The pair also traveled to sic necessities like toothbrushes and tow- and beyond. We also celebrated the incredible Guatemala this summer to present the Spanish els, as a Department of Justice lawyer ar- legal victory that brought Wilmer García, a US version of the book, Más Allá de la Reparación: gued in court that those are not integral to permanent resident, back to the US after being Protagonismo de Mujeres Mayas en las Secuelas del providing “safe and sanitary” conditions; deported to Honduras for 13 years away from Daño Genocida, translated by Megan Thomas • Over 2,600 children were forcibly separat- his parents and family for a minor drug posses- and published by the Mayan publishers, Chol- ed from their parents at the border, signifi- sion charge. This was made possible by years samaj. Maya protagonists from the four major cantly traumatizing families. Although the of work by our Post-Deportation Human Rights regions of the country participated in presen- practice was verbally disavowed by the ad- Project attorneys, aided by a substantial invest- tations in Huehuetenango, Nebaj, Cobán, and ministration in June 2018, a recent ACLU ment of pro bono legal work by Nixon Peabody Antigua, Guatemala. The authors sought to report states that over 900 more children LLP, particularly by Ronaldo Rauseo-Ricupero, return this collaboratively co-constructed un- have been forcibly separated from their BC Law ’07, an alumnus of the Center’s certif- derstanding of Mayan women’s protagonism in parents since then; icate program and Brianna Nassif, also a BC a context of ongoing struggle for human rights • The Trump administration has been re- Law alumna. Such victories serve as a reminder and reparation. stricting access to asylum proceedings in that principles of due process and proportional- myriad ways, many of which are patently ity cannot be denied due to one’s lack of citizen- The Center also brought many speakers and illegal under both US and international ship in a country, and that these rights can be events to campus to elevate the profile of issues 2 www.bc.edu/humanrights Center for Human Rights and International Justice | Summer 2019 of human rights and international justice in the projects across disciplines. They also helped to BC community. This past year, we hosted 24 put on workshops on immigration and refu- speakers and workshops on campus that were gee issues, partnering with BC undergraduate also open to the wider public, the most in the service learning programs such as Arrupe and ABOut us Center’s history in a given year, and co-spon- PULSE. The program has benefited the facul- The Center for Human Rights and sored several more. These included luncheon ty researchers in their work and has provided a International Justice addresses the events as part of our “Rights in Conflict” series, springboard for the graduating seniors to take which explores the ways in which conflicting the skills and knowledge gained into the future, increasingly interdisciplinary needs rights claims can manifest themselves in differ- with this year’s graduates attaining a Fulbright of human rights work through aca- ent contexts, and inquires how to best evaluate placement in India and another taking a posi- demic programs, applied research, and weigh them in searching for a just result. tion at a law firm. and the interaction of scholars with We also hosted renowned Guatemalan anthro- practitioners. The Center’s Co-Direc- pologist Ricardo Falla, SJ, last fall for a pair of We at the Center look forward to continuing tors are Law School Professor Daniel presentations reflecting on his life’s work ac- this essential work in the coming academic Kanstroom and Lynch School of companying Mayan people throughout the de- year, focusing our luncheon speaker series on Education Professor of Communi- cades-long Guatemalan armed conflict. Recaps issues of migration and rights in the US con- ty-Cultural Psychology M. Brinton of many of these events may be found in this text. We will also continue our academic and Lykes. Mr. Timothy Karcz is the issue and in our previous winter newsletter. research projects to explore various aspects of Assistant Director. migration, forced and otherwise, to continue to The Center continued its academic programs explore its nuances and to provide formation to Additional newsletter contributors: with its graduate-level seminar as the core our students seeking to better understand the Meredith Hawkins, Sarah Engel- course for our certificate program, which saw complexities of today’s ever more challenging berg-Nolan, Mary Noal. Photos another crop of students achieve it again this global context, and to push forward with the courtesy of Chris Soldt/BC Media year. As reported in another article in this defense and promotion of human rights both issue, the ceremony in which we presented in the US and beyond. We thank you for your Technology Services and Reba Sal- CHRIJ certificates included a presentation of continued interest and support. danha. the research findings of a soon to be published study on which Kelsey Rennebohm, a MA Men- tal Health Counseling student who was killed in Sincerely, a cycling accident in 2012, collaborated. An arti- cle based on the research Kelsey started with be published in the March 2020 issue of the jour- ABOut this nal Community Psychology in Global Perspec- puBlicAtiOn tive.
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