Join us for a virtual conversation to discuss and contextualize the key findings in Child Migrants in Family Immigration Detention in the US: An Examination of Current Pediatric Care Standards and Practices, published in January 2024. Our speakers will describe the impact of the report on policy implications for the future, delve into legal challenges in the current climate, and discuss the need for increased transparency in the border security process and oversight of child-specific processes.
Read the full report: Child Migrants in Family Immigration Detention in the US: An Examination of Current Pediatric Care Standards and Practices
Read the press release: New Report Documents the Mental and Physical Harm Experienced by Children in Immigration Detention
This webinar is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Asylum Clinic at the MGH Center for Global Health, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and RAICES.
Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for the sponsors.
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Cristela Guerra is an arts and culture reporter for WBUR. She worked for nearly four years at The Boston Globe writing human-interest features, covering everything from blizzards to arts to immigration as well as breaking news around New England. She started her career in Florida logging seven years at The News-Press where she wrote about about Cape Coral City Hall, crime, education, LGBTQ issues and business. She’s driven to understand peoples’ passions, committed to local communities and hopes to use the arts as a lens to delve deeper into stories of equity, culture, social justice and race.
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Javier Hidalgo specializes in asylum, civil rights, and complex litigation. In 2018, Javier joined the not-for-profit RAICES, the largest immigration legal services agency in Texas. As Legal Director, he oversees trauma-informed programs in support of individuals, family units, and unaccompanied children both in and recently released from government custody, as well as impact litigation in pursuit of positive systemic change in federal immigration policy. He came to RAICES following more than a decade of litigation experience as a paralegal and attorney in New York at midsize and multinational firms. A graduate of New York Law School (JD) and Swarthmore College (BA), Javier is admitted to practice law in the States of Texas and New York and the U.S. District Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
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Jacqueline Bhabha is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
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Katherine Peeler is a pediatric critical care physician at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA, where she is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is additionally a member of the faculties of HMS’s Center for Bioethics and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Dr. Peeler is co-medical director of the Harvard Student Human Rights Collaborative Asylum Clinic and engages students in research and advocacy efforts through the Peeler Immigration Lab. She has worked directly with child and adult asylum seekers and has researched, written about, testified, and spoken publicly about the health and rights of asylum seekers.