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U.S. immigration policy is the subject of university public forum
Craig Chamberlain,
News Editor
217-333-2894; cdchambe@uiuc.edu
1/12/2006
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
Why is the issue of immigration so contentious in a nation of immigrants?
Why do Americans welcome immigrants but also consider them a threat?
As Congress considers changes to immigration, what are the policies
that make sense?
A panel of experts will address those questions and others at 4 p.m.
Jan. 27 in a public forum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The forum, sponsored by the university’s Center
for Advanced Study, will be on the third floor of the Levis
Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana.
The event is free and open to the public, and will include time for
public discussion prompted by questions from the audience.
Scheduled to participate on the panel, which will deal with the political,
social and economic issues surrounding the immigration debate, are Illinois
professors Ilana Akresh, sociology;
Hadi Esfahani, economics;
Augusto Espiritu, history;
Alejandro Lugo, anthropology;
Dorothee Schneider, sociology; and moderator Noreen Sugrue, Women
and Gender in Global Perspectives Program.
The event is the latest in an occasional series of CAS Forums on Critical
Issues, organized to address current topics of public interest. Previous
forums have dealt with issues such as stem cell research, civil liberties
and national security, and planning for natural catastrophes.
More information about this and other CAS
events is on the center’s Web site.
