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Kulsum Ameji, an attorney and advocate for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, will speak about immigration issues at UW-La Crosse and Viterbo University. The lectures are free.
The talks are sponsored by UW-L Provost’s Office Visiting Scholar of Color grant, the UW-L Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, the UW-L Violence Prevention Office and Viterbo University.
‘Of margins and intersections’ Oct. 17
Ameji will reflect on a decade working with immigrant survivors of violence during “Of margins and intersections” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 1309 Centennial Hall.
She will discuss barriers immigrant survivors face; resources available for them; shortcomings of a prosecutorial approach; the need for nuanced, complex family empowerment strategies; the importance of academic-community partnerships and more.
‘The face behind the veil’ Oct. 18
Ameji will discuss the illusion of judicial neutrality in immigrant survivors’ legal cases at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in Port O’ Call in UW-L’s Cartwright Center.
This workshop, “The face behind the veil,” will focus on the history and current status of U.S. immigration laws, laws related to race, and family laws; law in theory versus law in practice; the ways the law is or isn’t neutral; issues manifest in some low-income immigrant survivors’ lives and more.
‘Mental health in the global context’ Oct. 18
Ameji will discuss issues impacting immigrant survivors of violence at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at 122 Brophy Center at Viterbo University.
The workshop “Mental health in the global context” will address issues of cultural competency, diversity, cross-cultural communication, cultural stigmas against mental health services, multiple layers of trauma in immigrant women’s lives and the paucity of culturally and linguistically-competent mental health services for immigrant survivors.