Immigration is one of the top topics in the national and international news these days, and asylum seekers have become an increasingly larger aspect of immigration in recent months. In acknowledgment of this, the College is offering a presentation titled “Seeking Asylum,” which will be given by Bill Hoffman, senior counsel to the Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network (GAIN) and a retired partner at the international law firm of King and Spalding. Hoffman’s talk will examine the process by which an alien seeks asylum in the U.S. and the legal issues that arise during this process. Several specific cases will be discussed, based on the speaker’s representation of clients from Somalia, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Libya, Rwanda and Haiti.
Seeking Asylum will take place Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. in the College’s Wells Fargo Auditorium. The presentation is being sponsored by the Department of History, the programs in Asian studies, African studies and Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as the School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs’ Global Awareness Forum, that school’s Dean’s Fund, the Deans Fund of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The First Year Experience program, Phi Alpha Theta and the College’s Pre-Law Advising Program.
In addition, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, Hoffman will offer a lecture on gender and asylum. This talk is being sponsored by the College’s Women and Gender Studies Program and will take place at 4 p.m. in Room 116 of the Thaddeus Street Education Center. Both talks are free and open to the public.
