2.15.08
Miami Valley Forum on Immigration Holds at University of Dayton

To complement the 2008 University of Dayton’s School of Law’s James J. Gilvary Symposium on Law, Religion, and Social Justice, the first Miami Valley Forum on Immigration will kick of February 27, 2008 at the University of Dayton. Topics covered during the Forum will include: Immigration categories and issues; Access to health care and education; Language issues and availability of interpreters for those not yet fluent in English; Psychological and mental health needs; Jobs and employment issues; Statuses and needs of refugees; Advocacy issues and Immigrant human rights. This year’s Gilvary Symposium which will begin at the end of the forum is tagged:  “Justice for Strangers? Legal Assistance and the Foreign Born”. The symposium will revolve around two themes: 1) the broad policy choices the United States faces in its re-evaluation of immigration policies, 2) Tools and information legal practitioners need to best represent and counsel non-citizen clients. For registration and brochure please click here:

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