Albert F. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellowship Opportunity at the Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinical Program
The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic Program is currently accepting applications for the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellowship. The fellowship will provide an opportunity for an attorney to work on direct representation of individuals applying for asylum and other forms of humanitarian protection, starting in the summer of 2017. The Fellow, who will be housed…
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CARA Family Detention Pro-Bono Project: Testimony by Dan Lasman
Dilapidated storefronts line the main street of the little-known border town of Dilley, Texas. The flat, tortilla colored landscape features scattered billboards for the disproportionate number of sprawling gas stations and empty motels in the area, vestiges of an oil boom in the 1980s. Now, the forgotten space is home to the South Texas Family…
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Final Post: Valentina Guerrero, Yale ’19
On my first day at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, clinical attorney Maggie Morgan asked me to remember, while translating, to always speak in the first person. We want their true voice to come through, as unfiltered as possible. Over the next month I echoed the brave narratives of each asylum-seeker client, allowing any…
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Meet the Interns
Throughout this summer, we’ve sat down and interviewed interns at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. In their individual videos, they speak on the joys, challenges, and surprises they have encountered over the past few months. Our Summer 2016 interns come from around the world to learn and grow at HIRC. Meet Dan! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYAs-ocVf4Y Meet Brianna! Meet…
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Massachusetts to Mexico: Former intern helping undocumented migrants in Rio Grande Valley
For the past six months, 23-year-old Alex Kleemann has worked countless hours with undocumented immigrants ages six to seventeen, learning their stories and teaching them about their rights at the South Texas Pro-Bono Asylum Representation Project (also known as ProBar). Yet a year earlier, Kleemann would not have been able to guess that immigration law…
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Learning from an Israeli Immigration Law Clinic
via the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs By Nathan MacKenzie, J.D. ’17 Nathan MacKenzie, J.D. ’17 pictured (first one from the right), with a team of lawyers and client at the Supreme Court in Israel Sometimes the best way to better understand your own world is to visit another. Doing so gives you…
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After Cameroon
We are sitting across from each other, watching a rainy afternoon through the window of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic’s offices in Wasserstein Hall. Suddenly, Henry* thinks of a new anecdote to tell. This one, he explains, is about his time in jail while he was still living in Cameroon. “I was there for…
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MULTIPLE NATIONALITIES AND THE “ANY COUNTRY” CLAUSE
By Emma Rekart (JD ‘17) Blog Post – Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic – Fall 2015 By the time asylum seekers enter the United States, they have already faced extraordinary struggles. They have fled their home countries because they feared for their safety or the safety of their families, and have come to America in…
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