Tigermedia - Weakening the Immigrant Children's Rights During the Trump Administration
Weakening the Immigrant Children's Rights During the Trump Administration
Date: October 20th, 2021
Duration:
1h:1m:21s
In this presentation, Dr. Gabriel Lataianu, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, will discuss the Trump administration's family separation policy and subsequently proposed Family Detention Centers. He will also shed light on how these policies bluntly violated the Flores Agreement, the most important legal act protecting immigrant children in the U.S., leaving thousands of immigrant children in legislative limbo as apprehended minors are protected neither by the U.S. Constitution nor the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (the U.S. being the only U.N. member that is not part of the Convention).
Dr. Gabriel Lataianu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College (City University of New York), USA. He graduated with an M.A. in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland), and a Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland). Since 2007, he has taught courses in Sociology in Arizona, New Jersey, and New York. Between 2004 and 2010 he worked as a counselor for immigrant children in Phoenix, Arizona.