Law, Policy, and Disabled Immigrants
How have U.S. immigration laws treated disabled people? How can disability law advance immigrants’ rights? Does immigration law itself create disability?
In the premiere episode of Season 2, Qudsiya is joined by Katherine Pérez and Roxana Moussavian, who approach these complex webs from the perspective of disability law and immigration law.
Listen to the episode below or on your favorite podcast app, then scroll down for more information about the guests and links to resources mentioned in the episode. Read the transcript here.
Guests
Katherine Pérez is the inaugural director of The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation. She is a graduate of UCLA School of Law and is a current doctoral candidate in disability studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She teaches Disability Rights Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Roxana Moussavian is an Immigration Attorney and Co-Director at Pangea Legal Services in San Francisco. Roxana advocates with and on behalf of disabled immigrants who are being incarcerated by ICE. She is a graduate of Yale Law School.
