Center for Human Rights
and International Justice
ANNUAL REPORT
2008-2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT
THE
CENTER
3
PROJECTS
3
PROGRAMMING
4
RESEARCH
8
STUDENT
RESEARCH
GRANTS
9
TEACHING
9
VISIBILITY
10
AWARDS
AND
CENTER
IN
THE
NEWS
11
FUNDRAISING
12
VISITING
SCHOLARS
AND
FELLOWS
12
AFFILIATED
FACULTY
INTERDISCIPLINARY
COLLABORATIONS
12
13
NEW
PARTNERSHIP
14
FUTURE
WORK
14
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ABOUT THE CENTER
The
Center
for
Human
Rights
and
International
Justice
addresses
the
increasingly
interdisciplinary
needs
of
human
rights
work
through
academic
programs,
applied
research,
and
the
interaction
of
scholars
with
practitioners.
It
aims
to
nurture
a
new
generation
of
scholars
and
practitioners
in
the
United
States
and
abroad
who
draw
upon
the
strengths
of
many
disciplines,
and
the
wisdom
of
rigorous
ethical
training
in
the
attainment
of
human
rights
and
international
justice.
The
Center
is
built
upon
the
University’s
deep
religious
and
ethical
tradition
of
service
to
others
and
its
broad
scholarly
reach
in
Arts
and
Sciences
as
well
as
professional
programs
in
Law,
Business,
Education,
Social
Work,
and
Nursing.
The
Center’s
Director,
David
Hollenbach,
SJ,
holds
a
University
Chair
in
Human
Rights
and
International
Justice.
The
Associate
Directors
are
Vice
Provost
for
Undergraduate
Affairs
Donald
Hafner,
Law
School
Professor
Daniel
Kanstroom
and
Lynch
School
Professor
of
Community‐Cultural
Psychology
M.
Brinton
Lykes.
Ms.
Anjani
Datla
is
the
Assistant
Director
and
Ms.
Latisha
Cansler
the
Center’s
Staff
Assistant.
PROJECTS
Rights of Forced
Migrants
Post-Deportation
Human Rights
Post-Katrina New
Orleans
The large number of people who have
been driven from their homes by civil
and international conflicts and natural
catastrophes poses unprecedented
challenges, many of them ethical in
nature. The plight of migrants, refugees
and other displaced persons raise
fundamental questions of moral
responsibility and action for scholars and
practitioners alike.
For more than a decade, unusually harsh
deportation policies have turned the US
into a ‘deportation nation.’ Hundreds of
thousands have endured arrest without
warrants, incarceration without bail, fasttrack deportation, and life-time
banishment. Many of these deportees
have been in the United States since
childhood and often leave behind family
members who may be legal residents or
citizens.
Displaced New Orleanians, newly
arrived immigrants and all those affected
by the aftermath of hurricane Katrina,
face a set of socio-emotional challenges
that involve not only personal recovery,
but collective healing and social redress.
In the post-Katrina context, this involves
addressing the structural racism that so
deeply affected the African-Americans
and other marginalized communities
that face similar struggles.
The project offers a unique,
interdisciplinary approach to addressing
these wrongful deportations. The project
aims to reintroduce legal predictability,
proportionality, family unity and
compassion into US deportation
proceedings, laws and policies.
This Participatory Action Research
project develops psychosocial resources
for cross-community dialogue, healing,
and organizing for change and uses
creative resources including
photography and storytelling to
document experiences.
To address these multitude of
challenges, the Center promotes
practice based intellectual initiatives that
blend sustained interaction with
practitioners who work on the ground
to aid the displaced, and rigorous
intellectual analysis at the University.
ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009
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PROGRAMMING
The
Center’s
programming
in
2008‐2009
was
focused
on
events
related
to
our
theme
of
examining
the
human
rights
of
forced
migration
with
a
particular
emphasis
on
the
impact
of
gender,
culture
and
race.
We
hosted
or
co‐sponsored
more
than
\ifteen
events
on
human
rights
issues
including
forced
migration,
immigration,
women’s
rights,
climate
change
world
trade
and
truth
and
reconciliation
processes
.
Speakers
ranged
from
leading
experts
to
up‐and‐coming
scholars,
practitioners
and
activists
from
around
the
world.
Most
events
were
open
to
the
public
and
well
attended
by
BC
graduate
and
undergraduate
students,
faculty,
staff
and
members
of
the
greater
Boston
community.
meetings
in
Geneva
in
late
July
2008
and
its
implications
for
justice
toward
the
poor
in
the
On
September
16,
2008,
Bishop
developing
world.
The
panelists
Alvaro
Ramazzini
from
San
discussed
the
structural
Marcos,
Guatemala,
delivered
a
injustices
in
the
current
trading
lecture
on
“Immigration
and
system
that
result
in
both
Deportation
Today
and
unfairness
and
inef\iciency,
Tomorrow:
Human
Rights
for
especially
for
developing
Migrant
Workers”
to
a
group
of
BC
countries.
Attendees:
50
students,
professors,
and
members
of
the
larger
community.
YUYACHKANI THEATER
Bishop
Ramazzini
spoke
of
the
36‐ TROUPE
year
internal
con\lict
in
Guatemala
On
October
2,
2008,
the
Center
from
1960‐1996,
which
resulted
in
collaboration
with
the
in
many
migratory
movements
Theater
Department,
hosted
out
of
Guatemala
and
into
members
of
Yuyachkani,
a
neighboring
countries,
including
human
rights
theater
troupe
the
United
States,
as
people
\led
from
Peru.
Yuyachkani
is
a
for
their
safety.
Attendees:
200
Quechua
word
that
means,
“I
am
thinking,
I
am
WORLD TRADE AND JUSTICE
remembering.”
The
troupe’s
FOR THE POOR
performances
focus
on
political
On
September
24,
2008,
the
and
social
issues
in
Peru’s
past
Center
hosted
a
panel
and
present
and
have
been
discussion
entitled
World
Trade
performed
throughout
Latin
and
Justice
for
the
Poor:
Impact
America
and
the
United
States.
of
Global
Talks
Breakdown.
Two
women
of
the
group,
Ana
Panelists
Frank
Garcia,
James
and
Debora
Correa,
led
an
Anderson,
and
David
Deese,
all
afternoon
theater
workshop
for
professors
at
Boston
College,
students
and
faculty
members
presented
an
analysis
of
the
on
the
use
of
masks
as
a
tool
breakdown
of
the
Doha
Round
for
actors.
Later
that
evening
at
the
World
Trade
Organization
IMMIGRATION AND
DEPORTATION TODAY AND
TOMORROW
the
women
performed
a
powerful
piece
entitled
Kay
Punku.
The
performances
depicted
the
sexual
violence
that
occurred
against
women
during
the
internal
con\lict
in
Peru
in
the
1980s
and
early
1990s
when
the
Shining
Path,
a
Maoist
guerrilla
group,
led
a
violent
revolution
throughout
the
country.
Attendees:
75
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CONVERSATIONS AT LUNCH
JACQUELINE BHABHA
On
February
20,
2009
Professor
Jacqueline
Bhabha
presented
the
next
segment
of
our
Conversations
at
Lunch
event.
Bhabha
lectures
at
the
Harvard
University
and
serves
as
the
director
of
the
Harvard
University
Committee
on
Human
Rights.
In
her
presentation,
Bhabha
discussed
the
traf\icking
of
children
and
the
separate
identi\ication
rubric
used
for
minors
that
does
not
require
proof
of
coercion.
These
separate
de\initions
are
important,
she
continued,
as
international
protections
should
be
awarded
to
the
increasing
number
of
children
being
traf\icked.
In
order
for
this
to
happen,
however,
Babha
claimed
a
more
ef\icient
identi\ication
system
as
well
as
a
range
of
solutions
for
these
children
must
be
developed.
Attendees:
25
MARYANNE LOUGHRY
On
November
7,
2008,
the
Center
kicked
off
of
its
2008‐2009
Conversations
at
Lunch
Series
with
Maryanne
Loughry.
Loughry
was
a
visiting
fellow
at
the
Center
in
the
Fall
2008
Semester.
She
is
the
associate
director
of
Jesuit
Refugee
Service
Australia.
Loughry
discussed
a
number
of
recent
developments
related
to
the
causes
and
nature
of
human
displacement,
as
well
as
the
possibility
of
new
mandates
for
the
United
Nations
High
Commissioner
for
Refugees,
the
UN
Refugee
Agency,
to
address
the
challenges
of
the
21st
century.
Attendees:
25
ALVARO LIMA
On
January
23,
2009
the
Center
welcomed
Mr.
Alvaro
Lima
for
the
second
segment
of
the
Conversations
at
Lunch
series
in
2008‐2009.
Lima
is
the
director
of
research
for
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority.
He
has
done
extensive
research
on
immigration
and
its
economic
impact
both
locally
and
abroad.
His
talk
centered
on
the
increasing
prevalence
of
immigrant
transnationalism,
and
the
changing
nature
of
the
spaces
this
new
class
of
immigrants
inhabits.
Pointing
out
that
transnational
immigrants’
lives
are
\irmly
located
within
two
national
settings,
Lima
discussed
several
implications
of
this
trend,
particularly
its
impact
on
the
changing
nature
of
the
global
economy
as
well
as
nations’
citizenship
policies
and
development
strategies.
Attendees:
25
AMANI EL JACK
On
March
27,
2009
the
Center
continued
its
Conversations
at
Lunch
Series
with
Dr.
Amani
El
Jack,
Assistant
Professor
at
the
University
of
Massachusetts
in
the
Women’s
Studies
Department.
El
Jack
discussed
the
current
situation
of
forced
migration
in
south
Sudan,
as
well
as
the
consequent
gender
relations
of
the
displacement.
Illustrating
the
complex
impact
this
development
induced
displacement
is
having
upon
the
social
structure
of
the
region,
she
pointed
out
that
while
an
abundance
of
negative
consequences
have
surfaced,
the
displacement
is
also
inadvertently
empowering
women
by
giving
them
opportunities
to
question
existent
oppressive
gender
relationships.
Attendees:
25
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LECTURES AND CONFERENCE
FALL LECTURE: WHY DO WE FORGET WOMEN’S
RIGHTS?
CONFERENCE: DEEPER CAUSES OF FORCED
MIGRATION
On
October
30,
2008,
Binaifer
Nowrojee,
professor
at
Harvard
Law
School
and
director
of
the
Open
Society
Initiative
for
East
Africa,
delivered
the
Center
Fall
2008
lecture
entitled
“Why
do
we
forget
women’s
rights?
Prosecuting
sexual
violence
crimes
under
International
Law.”
From
November
20‐22,
the
Center
in
collaboration
with
Jesuit
Refugee
Service
and
Catholic
Relief
Services,
held
a
conference
on
the
Deeper
Causes
of
Forced
Migration
and
Systemic
Responses.
The
three‐day
conference
drew
practitioners
and
scholars
from
around
the
world.
Conference
participants
presented,
examined,
and
discussed
issues
related
to
the
human
rights
of
forcibly
displaced
people,
who
include
refugees
displaced
across
borders
and
people
internally
displaced
within
countries,
from
ethical,
religious
and
political
perspectives.
Nowrojee
talked
of
her
experience
as
an
expert
witness
for
the
United
Nations
International
Criminal
Tribunal
for
Rwanda,
created
to
try
the
people
responsible
for
war
crimes
and
crimes
against
humanity
committed
during
the
1994
Rwandan
genocide.
Attendees:
150
SPRING LECTURE: VERNACULARIZATION OF
WOMEN’S RIGHTS
On
April
2,
2009
the
Center’s
Spring
Lecture
was
delivered
by
Professor
Sally
Engle
Merry.
Merry
is
the
director
of
the
Program
on
Law
and
Society
and
professor
in
the
Department
of
Anthropology
at
New
York
University.
She
is
also
the
author
of
several
articles
and
reviews
on
law,
anthropology,
race
and
class,
con\lict
resolution,
and
gender
violence.
Her
current
research
focuses
on
the
global
discourse
surrounding
the
relationship
between
transnational
human
rights
frameworks
and
their
implications
in
different
cultures.
Merry
discussed
how
human
rights
practices
move
from
the
cosmopolitan
centers
and
international
conferences
they
are
created
into
urban
neighborhoods
around
the
world.
Vernacularization
occurs
when
different
communities
tend
to
adopt
the
most
relevant
components
of
human
rights
frameworks,
varying
from
diffuse
references
to
universal
rights,
to
direct
appeals
to
the
human
rights
legal
systems.
Attendees:
75
On
November
20,
students
and
faculty
from
the
Boston
College
community
gathered
with
more
than
30
conference
participants
for
the
opening
session.
Keynote
addresses
were
given
by
Susan
Martin,
Herzberg
Professor
of
International
Migration
and
Executive
Director
of
the
Institute
for
the
Study
of
International
Migration
at
Georgetown
University,
and
Archbishop
Silvano
Tomasi,
the
Permanent
Observer
of
the
Holy
See
at
the
United
Nations
Of\ice
in
Geneva.
Attendees:
100
Conference
participants
spent
November
20
and
21
at
the
Boston
College
Connors
Family
Retreat
and
Conference
Center
in
Dover,
Massachusetts,
engaged
in
intensive,
seminar‐style
discussion.
Topics
included
the
foundational
ethical
and
religious
grounds
for
advocacy
on
behalf
of
the
forcibly
displaced;
causes
of
denial
of
asylum
for
refugees
in
many
developed
countries;
the
various
causes
of
forced
migration,
such
as
armed
con\lict
or
economic
pressures;
and,
ways
that
international
policies
and
structures
could
be
revised
to
protect
the
human
rights
of
the
displaced.
The
presentations
have
been
compiled
into
a
volume
edited
by
David
Hollenbach,
SJ
entitled
Driven
from
Home:
Protecting
the
Rights
of
Forced
Migrants
to
be
published
by
Georgetown
University
Press
in
Spring
2010.
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FILM
On
February
5,
2009,
the
Center
in
collaboration
with
the
departments
of
Fine
Arts,
Theology,
and
Latin
American
studies
sponsored
the
screening
of
Juan
Mandelbaum’s
\ilm,
Nuestros
Desaparecidas,
or
“Our
Disappeared.”
The
powerful
documentary
focuses
on
the
events
surrounding
the
1976‐1983
Argentine
military
dictatorship,
during
which
thousands
of
people
in
the
country
were
kidnapped,
tortured,
and
then
“disappeared”
by
the
government.
Narrated
by
Mandelbaum
himself,
the
\ilm
uses
interviews,
site
visits,
and
footage
from
the
period
to
tell
the
stories
of
a
handful
of
the
disappeared
with
which
Mandelbaum
was
personally
connected.
Attendees:
225
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
heal
war‐ravished
young
women.
Her
school
helps
take
in
girls
who
have
suffered
tremendously
in
the
unrest
created
by
the
Lord’s
Resistance
Army.
By
creating
a
surrogate
family
structure,
the
school
provides
a
support
system
and
offers
skills
training
and
an
education
in
basic
literacy
and
trades
for
these
young
girls.
Attendees:
200
Nobel Laureate Luong Ung
On
March
19,
2009,
the
Center
in
collaboration
with
the
South
East
Asian
Student
Association,
the
Asian
American
Studies
Program,
and
other
various
BC
departments
co‐
sponsored
a
lecture
by
Nobel
laureate
Loung
Ung
at
Boston
College.
A
survivor
of
the
Cambodian
Genocide,
Ung
spoke
about
her
experience
as
a
child
soldier
and
the
tragedies
she
was
forced
to
confront.
She
also
spoke
about
her
memoir,
First
They
Killed
My
Father:
A
Daughter
of
Cambodia
Remembers,
which
details
her
experience
and
motivation
to
return
to
Cambodia
and
become
a
human
rights
activist.
Attendees:
150
South Korean Truth and
Reconciliation Commission
On
March
26,
2009,
the
Center
in
partnership
with
the
Korean
Students
Association,
Lynch
School
of
Education
and
other
BC
groups
presented,
“Uncovering
the
Hidden
Story
of
the
Korean
War:
The
Work
of
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe
the
South
Korean
Truth
and
Reconciliation
Commission.”
Mr.
Kim
On
February
7,
2009,
the
Center
Dong‐Chun,
the
guest
lecturer
is
the
collaborated
with
several
BC
groups
Standing
Commissioner
of
the
South
and
departments
including
the
Church
in
the
21st
Century
as
well
as
Korean
Truth
and
Reconciliation
Commission,
which
was
formed
by
the
Philosophy
and
Theology
departments
to
help
celebrate
Sister
the
South
Korean
National
Assembly
Rosemary
Nyirumbe
and
her
work
at
in
2005
to
“reveal
the
truth
behind
civilian
massacres
during
the
Korean
St.
Monica’s
Girls
Tailoring
School
in
War
and
human
rights
abuses
during
Gulu,
Uganda.
Nyirumbe
is
the
recipient
of
the
2008
CNN
Hero
of
the
the
[South
Korean]
authoritarian
Year
Award
for
her
efforts
in
helping
period
and
the
anti‐Japanese
independence.”
Attendees
200
The
Center
co‐sponsored
several
events
in
2008‐2009
with
other
departments,
groups
and
centers
at
Boston
College.
Children’s Drawings
from Darfur
From
March
9
to
27,
2009,
the
Center
collaborated
with
the
Graduate
School
of
Social
Work
and
the
Center
for
the
Arts
and
Social
Responsibility
to
co‐
sponsor
an
exhibition
of
500
children’s
drawings
from
Darfur,
Sudan
at
Boston
College.
The
drawings
were
collected
by
Waging
Peace,
a
london‐based
NGO,
and
represent
the
children’s
strongest
memories
of
the
violence
and
terror
they
experienced.
The
scenes
in
the
artwork
directly
contradict
the
Government
of
Sudan’s
version
of
events,
and
for
this
reason
have
been
submitted
to
the
International
Criminal
Court
as
evidence
of
war
crimes
perpetrated
by
Sudanese
of\icials
against
the
people
of
Darfur.
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RESEARCH
The
Center’s
Directors
engaged
in
research
related
to
its
projects
and
published
widely
in
2008‐2009.
Here
is
a
listing
of
some
of
their
recent
and
forthcoming
work.
BOOKS
David
Hollenbach
SJ
Freedom:
Engendering
and
Enculturating
Forced
Migration).
Daniel
Kanstroom
Santiago,
Chile
Human
Rights
yearbook
2009)
“Response
to
V.
Bradley
Lewis
on
Theory
and
Practice
of
Human
Rights:
Ancient
and
Modern,”
Journal
of
Law,
Philosophy
and
Culture
III,
no.
1
(Spring
2009).
Theoretical
and
methodological
challenges
in
participatory
community‐
based
research.
In
H.
Landrine
&
N.
F.
Russo
(Eds.),
Handbook
of
Diversity
in
Feminist
Psychology.
New
York:
Spring
Publishing.
(2009,
with
Coquillon,
E.D.,
&
Rabenstein,
K.L.).
M.
Brinton
Lykes
Immigration;
in
Winslow,
ed.
Collateral
Consequences
of
Crime,
MCLE
2009
Whither
feminist
liberation
psychology?
Critical
exploration
of
feminist
and
liberation
psychologies
for
ARTICLES
a
globalizing
world.
Feminism
&
David
Hollenbach
SJ
Psychology,
19(3),
283‐298.
(2009,
with
Moane,
G).
“The
Rights
of
Refugees
in
a
Globalizing
World.”
Marianist
Award
Lecture/
Feminist
Liberation
Psychology:
Special
2008.
Dayton,
OH:
University
of
Issue.
Feminism
&
Psychology,
19(3).
Dayton,
2009.
Entire
Issue.
(2009
with
Moane,
G).
“An
Advocate
for
All:
How
the
Catholic
Church
Promotes
Human
Dignity,”
America,
December
1,
2008,
14‐16.
Refugee
Rights:
Ethics
Advocacy,
and
Africa,
David
Hollenbach,
S.J.,
editor.
Washington,
D.C.
Georgetown
University
Press,
2008.
Mandarin
translation
of
The
Global
Face
of
Public
Faith:
Politics,
Human
Rights,
and
Christian
Ethics.
To
be
published
in
the
People’s
Republic
of
China
under
the
auspices
of
the
China
Academic
Consortium
in
the
translation
series
“Western
Academia
and
Public
Ethics”
Expected
publication
in
2010.
Driven
from
Home:
Protecting
the
Rights
of
Forced
Migrants.
David
Hollenbach,
S.J.,
editor.
Washington,
D.C.:
Georgetown
University
Press,
spring,
2010.
With
chapter
contributions
from
Daniel
Kanstroom
(Loving
Humanity
While
Accepting
People:
A
Critique
and
a
Cautious
Affirmation
of
the
"Political)
and
M.
Brinton
Lykes
(No
Easy
Road
to
“The
Common
Good
and
Issues
in
U.S.
Politics:
A
Critical
Catholic
Approach,”
Journal
of
Religion
and
Society
4
(2008),
33‐46.
Psychsocial
trauma,
poverty,
and
human
rights
in
communities
emerging
from
war.
In
D.
Fox,
I.
Prilleltensky,
&
S.
Austin
(Eds.),
Critical
Psychology
II.
London:
SAGE,
pp.
285‐299.
(2009,
with
Coquilllon,
E.D.)
“Economic
Justice
for
All
Twenty
Years
Later:
Keynote
Address
at
Symposium
on
Catholic
Social
Teaching
on
the
Market,
the
State,
and
the
Law,
Villanova
University
School
of
Law,
September
21,
2007,”
Journal
of
Catholic
Social
Thought
6,
no.1
(2008):
315‐321.
Popular
education
and
action
research:
Voices
from
the
field.
In
S.
Noffke
and
B.
Somekh
(Eds.),
The
Handbook
of
Educational
Action
Research.
Thousand
Oaks,
CA:
SAGE,
pp.
387‐396.
(2009
with
Brydon‐Miller,
M.,
Davids,
I.,
Jaitli,
N.,
Lykes,
M.
B.,
Schensul,
J.,
&
Williams,
S.).
“John
Courtney
Murray:
Theologian
of
Religious
Freedom,”
in
Reclaiming
Catholicism:
Treasures
Old
and
New.
Edited
by
Thomas
H.
Groome
and
Michael
J.
Daley.
Forthcoming,
2009.
Towards
transformational
liberation:
Participatory
action
research
and
activist
praxis.
In
P.
Reason
&
H.
Bradbury
(Eds.),
The
SAGE
Handbook
of
Action
C260‐292.
(2009
with
Mallona,
A.)
Daniel
Kanstroom
Legal
Ethics,
Torture,
and
the
"Task
of
the
Good
Lawyer:"
Mukasey
Agonistes;
Boston
College
International
and
Comparative
Law
Journal
(2009);
Sexuality‐based
Asylum
Claims:
A
Few
Answers,
Many
Questions
(published
in
Spanish
version
by
University
of
Compartir
la
Memoria
Colectiva:
Acompañamiento
Psicosocial
y
Justicia
Integral
para
Mujeres
Víctimas
de
Violencia
Sexual
en
Conflictos
Armados.
PCS‐Consejeria
en
Proyectos.
83pp.
(2008
with
Cabrera
Pérez‐Armiñan,
M.L.)
ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009
8
STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS
Now
in
its
second
year,
the
Center’s
Summer
Research
Grant
program
is
helping
Boston
College
students
from
various
disciplines
pursue
research
in
the
\ields
of
human
rights
and
international
justice.
We
received
a
large
number
of
applications
this
past
academic
year
and
the
selection
process
was
very
competitive.
The
2008‐2009
Research
Grants
were
given
to
four
undergraduates
and
two
graduate
students.
✦Adam
Saltsman,
PhD
Sociology
student
spent
the
summer
understanding
the
human
rights
challenges
of
Iraqi
forced
migrants
in
Jordan;
and
✦Chrisann
Newransky,
PhD
Social
Work
student
researched
the
widows’
human
rights
movement
in
South
India.
✦Caroline
Beyer,
A&S
2012,
used
her
grant
to
explore
human
traf\icking
through
\ilm;
✦Molly
Kammien,
A&S
2010
spent
the
summer
working
for
a
Catholic
NGO
lobbying
at
the
United
Nations
in
New
York;
✦Elizabeth
Muller,
A&S
2011
studied
solidarity
and
community
development
in
San
Pedro;
✦Michael
Wolf,
A&S
2012
documented
the
conditions
of
human
traf\icking
in
New
York
and
San
Francisco;
TEACHING
The
seminar
includes
students
from
various
disciplines
throughout
the
university,
including
law,
psychology,
social
work,
history,
theology,
philosophy
and
education.
All
students
submitted
an
interdisciplinary
research
paper.
Center
Associate
Director,
Professor
M.
Brinton
Lykes
was
the
faculty
coordinator
of
the
seminar
for
the
2008‐2009
school
year
and
will
continue
in
the
same
role
in
2009‐2010.
CERTIFICATE
The
Center
also
continued
to
administer
the
Graduate
Certi\icate
in
Interdisciplinary
Human
Rights.
We
have
seen
an
increase
in
enrollment
over
the
last
few
years.
SEMINAR
The
Center’s
interdisciplinary
graduate
seminar
in
human
rights
and
international
justice
primarily
focused
this
year
on
the
plight
of
migrants,
including
those
who
are
forcibly
displaced
and
those
who
are
deported.
In
2008‐2009
the
Certi\icate
was
awarded
to
Ms.
Nicole
Karlebach
(J.D.)
and
Ms.
Sevrine
Knuchel
(LLM).
ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009
9
VISIBILITY
Center
Directors
made
a
significant
number
of
presentations
around
the
world
in
2008‐2009
raising
the
visibility
of
the
Center
and
profiling
the
human
rights
challenges
our
projects
are
designed
to
address.
The
following
is
a
compilation
of
some
of
these
presentations.
PRESENTATIONS
David
Hollenbach
SJ
Robert
Kennedy
Foundation
symposium
on
Catholic
Universities
and
the
Promotion
of
Human
Rights,
presentation
on
the
CHRIJ,
Sacred
Hearth
University,
Fairfield
Connecticut,
June
11,
2008.
Jesuit
University
Humanitarian
Action
Network,
Conference
on
Engaging
Students
in
Humanitarian
Action,
Fordham
University,
Bronx,
N.Y,
June
20‐‐June
22,
2008.
Association
of
Catholic
Colleges
and
Universities,
consultation
on
Goals
for
the
Future
of
Catholic
Higher
Education,
Baltimore,
Md,
July
7‐9,
2008.
Lecture,
The
Common
good
in
a
Divided
Society,
Roman
Catholic
Archdiocese
of
Detroit,
September
18,
2008.
Introductory
Presentation,
Deeper
Causes
of
Forced
Migration
and
Systemic
Responses,
Dover,
MA,
November
2008
Presentation
on
“The
Rights
of
Refugees
in
a
Globalizing
World,”
to
Porticus
Foundation
and
the
Brenninkmeijer
family,
January
8,
2009,
Noordwijk,
The
Netherlands.
Presentation,
Annual
Meeting
Society
of
Christian
Ethics,
Comparative
Ethics
Interest
Group,
“Comparative
Ethics,
Islam,
Human
Rights:
Internal
Pluralism
and
the
Possible
Development
of
Tradition,”
Chicago,
IL,
January
9,
2009.
Charles
Owen
Rice
Lecture,
“Forced
Migrants,
Human
Rights
and
Global
Justice,
Duquesne
University,
Pittsburgh,
PA,
March
26,
2009.
Daniel
Kanstroom
Lecture
on
Deportation
Nation,
Law
and
Society
Conference,
Montreal,
Quebec,
June
2008
Keynote
speaker
for
Asian
American
Psychological
Association
Annual
Conference,
Boston,
MA;
August
2008
Africa,
June
2008.
Immigrant
Families’
Experiences
of
Deportation:
Interdisciplinary
Participatory
Action
Research
as
a
Resource
for
Generating
Understanding,
Organizing,
and
Change.
Kalina
Brabeck,
Ph.D.,
M.
Brinton
Lykes,
Ph.D.,
Daniel
Kanstroom,
J.D.,
Mary
Holper,
J.D.,
and
Rachel
Hershberg.
Philadelphia,
PA,
June
2008.
"The
Pen,
The
Sword
and
the
Waterboard,
Ethical
Lawyering
in
the
"Global
War
on
Terror",
Symposium
at
Boston
College
Law
School,
October
2008
Activist
scholarship,
the
visual,
and
gross
violations
of
human
rights:
Documentation,
critical
analysis,
and
social
change.
Radcliffe
Symposium:
Emergent
Seeing
and
Knowing:
Mapping
Practices
of
Participatory
Presented
paper
on
asylum
law
at
Visual
Methods,
Cambridge,
MA,
August
conference
on
Deeper
Causes
of
Forced
2008
Migration
and
Systemic
Responses:
Human
Rights
of
the
Displaced
in
Deeper
Causes
of
Forced
Migration
and
Ethical,
Religious,
and
Political
Systemic
Responses
Human
Rights
of
Contexts,
Dover,
MA,
November
2008
the
Displaced
in
Ethical,
Religious,
and
Political
Perspectives,
Boston
College.
“No
easy
road
to
freedom”:
Deportation
Nation
at
Brooklyn
Law
School
speaker
series,
February
2009
Engendering
and
enculurating
forced
"Immigration
Policy
Challenges
in
the
migration,
Dover,
MA,
November
2008
New
Administration";
American
Participatory
Action
Research
as
Life
University,
February
2009
Project.
Qualitative
Methods
and
Social
Commentator
at
the
Organization
of
Critique.
City
University
of
New
York,
American
Historians
conference
on
Graduate
Center,
New
York,
NY,
May
manuscript
by
Cornelia
H.
Dayton
2009
(U.Conn.)
and
Sharon
V.
Salinger
(UC
OXFAM
America,
PAR
&
PhotoVoice
as
Irvine):
"Warning
Out:
Robert
Love
Searches
for
Strangers
in
Pre‐
Resources
in
Post‐Katrina
New
Orleans,
Revolutionary
Boston",
March
2009
Boston,
MA,
May
2009
Distinguished
Speaker
Series
lecture
at
American
University
Washington
College
of
Law,
March
2009
M.
Brinton
Lykes
Participatory
Action
Research,
Human
Rights,
and
Community
Psychology:
Challenges
and
Contradictions
for
Community‐University
Praxis.
School
of
Human
and
Community
Development,
University
of
the
Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg,
South
ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009
10
AWARDS AND CENTER IN THE NEWS
Center
in
its
June
9,
2008,
issue
as
an
“action
intellectual”
whose
work
exempli\ies
Catholic
higher
learning
in
service
to
the
poor.
http://www.bc.edu/centers/
humanrights/meta‐elements/
pdf/America_on_Hollenbach.pdf
“A
Dirty
Word
We
Never
Hear”,
September
4,
2008
A
review
of
"Refugee
Rights,"
edited
by
Professor
David
Hollenbach
SJ
http://blog.nj.com/
njv_ray_schroth/2008/09/
a_dirty_word_we_never_hear.html
#more
POST DEPORTATION HUMAN
RIGHTS PROJECT (PDHRP)
The
Nation,
June
9,
2008
Former
PDHRP
Attorney,
Rachel
Rosenbloom
was
cited
in
an
article
titled
“
Thin
Ice.”
http://www.bc.edu/centers/
humanrights/meta‐elements/
pdf/ICE.pdf
"El
Latino
Expreso",
July
18,
2008
Prof.
Daniel
Kanstroom,
Prof.
Kalina
Brabeck
and
Prof.
M.
Briton
Lykes
of
the
Lynch
School
of
Education
are
featured
in
"El
AWARDS
Latino
Expreso"
about
the
PDHRP
trip
to
Guatemala
In
November
2008,
the
Post‐
http://www.bc.edu/centers/
Deportation
Human
Rights
Project
Boston
Globe,
September
16,
2008
humanrights/meta
elements/pdf/
was
honored
with
the
Human
“Articles
of
Faith”
discusses
the
Latina_Expreso_18julio2008_PDH
Rights
Award
from
Alternative
visit
of
Bishop
Alvaro
Ramazzini
RP_Trip_to_Guatemala.pdf
Chance/Chanc
Alternativ,
a
Haiti‐
Imeri
to
to
Boston
College
for
his
based
re‐entry
program
for
Haitian
lecture,
"Immigration
and
Washington
Post,
August
16,
deportees.
Professor
Daniel
Deportation
Today
and
2008.
Kanstroom
accepted
the
award
on
Tomorrow."
Former
PDHRP
Attorney
Rachel
behalf
of
the
PDHRP
at
the
http://www.bc.edu/centers/
Rosenbloom
was
cited
in
an
organization’s
annual
award
dinner
humanrights/meta‐elements/
article
on
the
issue
of
federal
in
Brooklyn,
New
York.
pdf/Bishop_visits_hub.pdf
arrests
of
legal
immigrants
during
raids.
Professor
David
Hollenbach,
SJ
Various
Sources,
November
2008
http://
received
the
Marianist
Award
The
Conference
on
Deeper
Causes
www.washingtonpost.com/wp‐
from
the
University
of
Dayton,
of
Forced
Migration
hosted
by
the
dyn/content/article/
Ohio
in
January
2009.
This
award
Center
was
pro\iled
in
various
2008/08/15/
is
given
annually
to
a
Roman
news
sources
including
Reuters,
AR2008081503208.html?
Catholic
whose
work
has
made
a
Human
Rights
Today,
Earth
Times
referrer=emailarticle
major
contribution
to
intellectual
and
The
Pilot.
life.
Center
directors,
programs
and
staff
received
prestigious
awards
for
their
research
and
work
in
2008‐2009.
MEDIA COVERAGE
The
Center,
its
projects
and
the
Directors
were
routinely
pro\iled
in
national
and
international
media
in
2008‐2009.
Below
is
a
sample
compilation.
CENTER
America,
June
9,
2008
America,
the
national
Catholic
weekly,
described
David
Hollenbach
SJ,
director
of
the
America,
December
1,
2008
On
the
60th
anniversary
of
the
United
Nations
Universal
Declaration
of
Human
Rights
approaches
in
December,
Center
director
David
Hollenbach,
SJ,
re\lected
on
how
the
Catholic
Church
promotes
human
dignity
in
America.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/
pubaf/08/
America_HollenbachDec08.pdf
ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009
11
FUNDRAISING
The
Center
had
a
very
successful
year
fundraising
for
human
rights
projects.
working
with
migrants
and
refugees
around
the
world.
The
grant
will
provide
for:
In
Spring
2009,
The
Post‐
Katrina
New
Orleans
Project
received
a
grant
of
$24,000
from
the
Greater
Birmingham
Community
Foundation
to
support
cross‐community
dialogue
and
for
documenting
community
experiences
through
PhotoVoice.
Professor
M.
Brinton
Lykes
leads
the
project
and
works
with
community
partners
Kingsley
House
✦
and
visiting
scholar,
Holly
Scheib
(see
next
box.)
✦A
visiting
scholar
who
will
be
in
residence
at
the
Center
to
develop
practice‐based
research
options
and
student
placements;
In
Summer
2009,
the
Center
received
a
major
two‐year
anonymous
grant
of
$197,000
for
its
Human
Rights
Research
and
Education
Initiative.
The
Initiative,
led
by
Professor
David
Hollenbach,
SJ
is
designed
to
advance
human
rights
✦
research
and
education
on
forced
migration.
In
particular,
it
will
expand
engagement
with
practitioners,
including
the
Jesuit
Refugee
Service
and
other
human
rights
organizations
✦Public
lectures
at
Boston
C o l l e g e
o n
i s s u e s
o f
humanitarian
crises
and
potential
responses;
Fellowships
for
advanced
graduate
and
professional
students
to
combine
their
academic
study
with
collaborative,
practice‐based
work
with
human
rights
practitioners;
and
Graduate
and
undergraduate
internships
to
assist
research
and
practice‐based
learning
related
to
forced
migration.
VISITING SCHOLARS AND FELLOWS
The
Center
hosted
three
fellows/
scholars
in
2008‐09.
Holly
Scheib
is
a
Ph.D.
candidate
in
international
health
and
development
Maryanne
Loughry
is
the
Associate
at
Tulane
School
of
Director
of
Jesuit
Refugee
Service
in
Public
Health
and
Australia.
She
collaborates
with
was
in
residence
Professor
M.
at
the
Center
in
Brinton
Lykes
on
the
Fall
of
2008,
community‐based
working
with
participatory
Professor
David
action
research
Hollenbach
SJ
projects
with
on
the
rights
of
Latina
and
African‐
forced
migrants.
American
Loughry
will
community
health
return
to
work
workers
using
PhotoVoice
techniques
with
the
Graduate
School
of
Social
Scheib
will
serve
as
visiting
scholar
at
Work
in
the
Fall
of
2009
and
the
the
Center
till
2011.
Center
in
the
Spring
of
2010.
NYASHA
KARIMAKWENDA
joined
the
Center
as
the
Post
Deportation
Human
Rights
Fellow
in
August
2008.
She
has
a
JD
from
Northeastern
Law
School
and
has
experience
dealing
with
refugees
and
immigration.
At
the
Center
Karimakwenda
worked
on
deportation
issues
with
the
Boston
College
Law
School’s
Immigration
and
Asylum
Project.
NEW AFFILIATED FACULTY
The
Center
welcomed
Professor
Kalina
Brabeck
as
Af\iliate
Faculty
in
2008‐09.
She
is
Assistant
Professor
at
the
Counseling,
Educational
Leadership
and
School
Psychology
Department
of
Rhode
Island
College
and
holds
a
Ph.D
in
Counseling
Psychology
from
the
University
of
Texas
Austin.
Brabeck
works
with
Associate
Directors
Lykes
and
Kanstroom
on
the
Post
Deportation
Human
Rights
Project..
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12
INTERDISCIPLINARY
COLLABORATIONS
POST DEPORTATION HUMAN
RIGHTS PROJECT (PDHRP)
The
PDHRP
is
an
interdisciplinary
venture
that
brings
together
the
Law
School,
the
Lynch
School
of
Education
and
the
Graduate
School
of
Social
Work
to
provide
direct
representation
to
individuals
who
have
been
deported
and
to
promote
the
rights
of
deportees
and
their
family
members
through
research,
legal
and
policy
analysis,
media
advocacy,
training
programs,
and
participatory
action
research.
The
PDHRP
has
been
formally
endorsed
by
the
American
Bar
Association,
and
has
established
working
relationships
with
the
Immigrant
Defense
Project,
the
LAW SCHOOL
The
Boston
College
Law
School
has
contributed
to
the
growth
and
success
of
the
PDHRP.
The
School
provides
office
space
to
house
the
PDHRP
Supervising
Attorney
and
Law
students.
Collaborations
with
the
Law
School
include
the
relationship
between
the
PDHRP
and
the
Immigration
and
Asylum
Project
which
allows
second
and
third‐year
law
students
to
undertake
real‐world
immigration
legal
work
on
behalf
of
asylum
seekers,
immigrants,
and
certain
non‐citizens
detained
by
the
US
government.
In
2008‐09,
former
Immigration
Clinic
faculty,
Ms.
Mary
Holper
worked
with
then
PDHRP
Supervising
Attorney,
Ms.
Rachel
Rosenbloom
and
Professor
Daniel
Kanstroom
on
several
cases.
This
relationship
continues
with
the
current
Professor
at
the
Clinic,
Ms.
Laura
Tjan.
The
Law
School
also
supported
the
salary
of
CHRIJ
Human
Rights
Fellow
(2008‐09),
Ms.
Nyasha
Karimakwenda.
American
Immigration
Law
Foundation,
the
National
Immigration
Project
of
the
National
Lawyers
Guild,
the
Catholic
Legal
Immigration
Network,
Families
for
Freedom,
Human
Rights
Watch,
and
other
organizations
focusing
on
the
immigration
consequences
of
criminal
convictions.
The
Project
is
also
collaborating
on
participatory
action
research
with
a
number
of
community‐based
organizations
in
and
around
Boston,
including
Centro
Presente,
Organización
Maya
K'iche,
English
for
Action,
and
Cape
Verdean
Community
UNIDO,
and
have
established
connections
with
non‐
governmental
organizations
in
Central
America,
Haiti,
Guatemala
and
Cambodia,
as
well
as
with
consular
of\icials
around
the
world.
The
Project
is
directed
by
Professor
Immigration
Clinic
Law
students
visit
detainees
facing
deportation
in
New
England
and
train
for
post‐
deportation
legal
work.
Each
semester,
two
students
from
the
Clinic
are
placed
with
the
PDHRP
and
given
class
credit
by
the
Law
School.
LYNCH SCHOOL
The
Lynch
School
of
Education
has
supported
the
PDHRP
since
its
inception.
The
School
contributed
the
annual
Lynch
School
Alumni
Fellowship
to
the
Center
for
work
on
Post
Deportation
Human
Rights.
This
Fellowship
provides
one‐year
tuition
waiver,
credits
and
a
stipend
for
graduate
students
of
academic
merit
to
conduct
research
on
social
justice
issues
and
is
typically
awarded
to
a
student
of
color.
In
2008‐09
the
Fellowship
was
shared
by
Ms.
Ahjane
Billingsley
and
Mr.
Juan
Manual
Leon
Parra,
both
masters
students
in
counseling.
The
School
also
supported
graduate
student
stipend
and
tuition
credits
for
Ms.
Rachel
Hersbherg,
Ph.D.
Daniel
Kanstroom
at
the
Law
School
and
Professor
M.
Brinton
Lykes
at
the
Lynch
School
of
Education.
Legal
work
is
overseen
by
Professor
Kanstroom
and
Supervising
Attorney
Ms.
Maunica
Sthanki
(since
August
2009),
with
assistance
from
Law
students.
The
participatory
action
research
component
is
led
by
Professor
M.
Brinton
Lykes
with
the
assistance
of
Lynch
School
graduate
students.
Uniquely,
all
the
Project’s
work
is
done
in
both
English
and
Spanish
and
the
faculty,
staff
and
students
are
all
bilingual.
PDHRP
and
the
Center’s
interdisciplinarity
stems
from
the
signi\icant
contributions
the
participating
schools
at
the
University
make.
See
box
for
details.
candidate
to
work
on
psychosocial
components
of
the
PDHRP.
The
Lynch
School
kindly
supported
the
teaching
load
of
Professor
M.
Brinton
Lykes
to
teach
the
Center’s
graduate
Interdisciplinary Seminar
on
Human
Rights
in
2008‐09
and
will
do
the
same
for
next
academic
year.
The
School
also
supported
the
course
taught
by
CHRIJ
visiting
scholar,
Dr.
Maryanne
Loughry
on
Psychological
Responses
to
Humanitarian
Crises.
THEOLOGY DEPARTMENT
CHRIJ
is
grateful
to
the
Theology
Department
for
providing
office
space
for
Center
staff.
The
Department
also
awards
Professor
Hollenbach’s
time
and
teaching
load
to
the
Center.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
SOCIAL WORK (GSSW)
GSSW
Professor
Qingwen
Xu
works
closely
with
PDHRP
and
Dr.
Maryanne
Loughry
will
be
working
with
the
Center
and
GSSW
in
2009‐10
on
issues
of
forced
migration.
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13
NEW PARTNERSHIP
The
Center
entered
into
a
partnership
with
the
Ignacio
Martín‐Baró
Fund
for
Mental
Health
and
Human
Rights
this
past
summer.
Both
the
Center
and
the
Martín‐Baró
Fund
have
compatible
missions
and
aim
to
address
similar
human
rights
challenges.
Both
the
Center
and
the
Fund
work
to
promote
education
and
critical
awareness
about
the
consequences
of
social
injustice
on
individuals
and
communities.
FUTURE WORK
The
Center
has
a
busy
academic
year
ahead.
Through
our
programming,
research
and
training
we
are
going
to
explore
and
address
the
challenges
of
migration
and
human
rights.
✦ The
Center
has
several
events
planned
including
one
to
commemorate
the
twentieth
anniversary
of
the
Jesuit
murders
in
El
Salvador
on
November
4,
2009
in
Gasson
100
at
7
PM.
✦ The
Center
will
host
a
conference
on
“Deportation,
Immigration
and
Human
Rights:
Interdisciplinary
Theory
and
Practice”
from
March
18‐20,
2010.
The
conference
will
bring
together
more
than
30
lawyers,
psychologists,
social
workers
and
community
organizers
to
maximize
critical
discussion
abut
theoretical
and
practical
problems
that
often
elude
analysis
within
single
disciplines.
✦ Through
the
Human
Rights
Research
and
Education
Initiative,
the
Center
plans
to
engage
a
greater
number
of
undergraduate
and
graduate
students
in
human
rights
issues
and
expose
them
to
the
human
rights
challenges
of
forced
migrants
around
the
world.
✦ Center
directors
will
continue
to
develop
joint
programming
with
other
centers
and
departments
within
the
university,
with
NGOs
and
charitable
organizations,
and
with
the
network
of
Jesuit
colleges
and
universities
throughout
the
world.
The
Center
will
manage
the
day‐to‐day
operations
of
the
Fund,
including
the
website,
production
of
a
bi‐annual
newsletter
and
fundraising
events
like
the
annual
Bowlathon.
In
addition,
the
Center
will
serve
as
the
central
resource
for
receiving
grant
applications
and
announcing
grant
awards
each
year.
In
this
new
partnership
the
Center
extends
its
outreach
mission
through
this
new
affiliation
and
the
Fund
seeks
to
engage
a
new
generation
of
students
in
the
important
work
of
Ignacio
Martín‐Baró
while
providing
them
with
the
hands‐on‐experience
of
partnering
with
small
NGOs
in
the
global
south
and
developing
educational
resources
and
advocacy
here
in
the
U.S.
The
Center
is
looking
forward
to
the
benefits
of
working
with
the
Fund
and
the
opportunity
for
student
involvement
with
its
projects.
STAFF AND STUDENTS
The
Center
hired
several
new
staff
members
in
2008‐09.
Ms.
Latisha
Cansler
replaced
Ms.
Jane
Vecchi
as
the
Center
Staff
Assistant
in
August
2008.
Ms.
Anjani
Datla
replaced
Ms.
Elizabeth
King
as
the
Center
Assistant
Director
in
November
2008.
The
Center
is
grateful
for
the
continued
support
and
assistance
of
graduate
and
undergraduate
students.
Below
is
a
listing
of
students
and
volunteers
who
helped
with
research,
event
planning,
organizing
and
overall
support
in
2008‐09.
Undergraduate
Students
✦ Ms.
Sarah
Popper
✦ Ms.
Colleen
Silva
✦ Ms.
Dodie
Rimmelin
✦ Ms.
Hayley
Trahan‐Liptak
✦ Ms.
Elizabeth
Vitale
Graduate
Students
✦ Ms.
Ahjane
Billingsley
✦ Ms.
Bethany
Garrison
✦ Ms.
Rachel
Hershberg
✦ Mr.
Juan
Manuel
Leon
Parra
✦ Mr.
Zac
Willette
ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009
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B O S TO N
C O L L E G E
Center for Human Rights & International Justice
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617.552.1968
Email: humanrights@bc.edu
Web: www.bc.edu/humanrights