This symposium brings together advocates, scholars, and organizers to explore the strategies and challenges shaping immigrant justice today. Through panels and a strategy session, participants will examine gender asylum and movement law approaches, the role of lawyering and organizing in uncertain times, narrative-shifting through media, state-level protections for immigrant communities, the limits and power of litigation, and efforts to challenge ICE. The event highlights how legal advocacy and grassroots organizing intersect to build resilience and drive systemic change.

Panels

• The Unfinished Battle for Gender Asylum: How a Movement Law Approach Can Generate More Durable Change
• Movement Lawyering and Organizing in Risky Times
• Shifting the Narrative: Media, Messaging, and the Immigrant Justice Movement 
• The Limits and Power of Litigation
• Challenging ICE

Registration for non-CLE participants: go.rutgers.edu/resistance
CLE registration: rutgerscle.com. Free for immigrant justice advocates with promo code JUSTICE (not case-sensitive).

Co-sponsored by Rutgers Center for Immigrant Justice, Rutgers Child Advocacy Clinic, Rutgers Race & the Law Review, Rutgers Institute for Professional Education, and the American Friends Service Committee.