The Queering Immigration Conference is the largest gathering of LGBTQI immigrants/previously detained/asylum seekers, organizers, service providers, legal workers, healthcare providers, community healers, and more in the world. We will highlight emerging strategies and new frameworks that focus on ending violence and provide resources for LGBTQI asylum seekers/ detainees/ undocumented/ and immigrants.
This year marks our second international conference, with folks based in four different countr...
The Queering Immigration Conference is the largest gathering of LGBTQI immigrants/previously detained/asylum seekers, organizers, service providers, legal workers, healthcare providers, community healers, and more in the world. We will highlight emerging strategies and new frameworks that focus on ending violence and provide resources for LGBTQI asylum seekers/ detainees/ undocumented/ and immigrants.
This year marks our second international conference, with folks based in four different countries attending! This also marks our first convening that will focus on international strategy to end LGBTQI detention. We look forward to seeing you there!
The 2017 Queering Immigration Conference has some amazing workshops this year! Read below to see what amazing pieces will be presented!
Queer refugees and Australia: a failure to protect
Immigration Remedies for Victims of Violent Crimes
Life after welcome: helping asylee integrate into American society
Higher Education Advocacy: Supporting LGBTQIA Students and Scholars of International Origin
Building bridges: Working across borders for LGBT migrant justice
Meeting the Health Needs of Queer Immigrants
Storytelling to Abolish Immigration Detention from the Inside-Out
Queer/Trans and from the Middle East: A Discussion
Challenges of Housing in Chicago for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers
Media Strategy & Intersectional Messaging in a Time of Resistance
T*GNC-Immigrant-Queers: Resisting and Organizing against #BackersOfHate
Our Queerness Across Time and Space: Remembering to Heal as We Fight
Sanctuary Law: Using Religion to Challenge the Immigration System
Thinking Like a Lawyer, Acting Like an Advocate
The challenges LGBTI asylum seekers having and possible solutions
These Walls Must Fall: LGBTI migrants and asylum seekers and the British Immigration Detention System
Fortress Europe: Defending LGBT asylum seekers and refugees in the European 'Refugee Crisis'
We are Not a Burden! Queering the Fight for Immigrant Rights to Health Care and Safety-Net Programs in the Trump Era: Trump's Leaked Public Charge Executive Order and the Future of Immigrant Access to Health and Welfare Programs
UndocuQueer Youth
Challenges Faced by LGBTQ Asylum Seekers in the United states - Nigerian Experience
The Case for Closing Rikers: The Impacts on LGBTQI Immigrants in NYC
State of The Union: LGBTQ Immigrants Rights Under The Trump Administration
Trauma Informed Lawyering
International Strategy to Shut Down LGBTQI Detention
REGISTER TODAY! Or sponsor a directly impacted person!
Conference Schedule and special events
Conference is September 22nd- 24th
September 22nd is the Queering Immigration Awards
September 23rd is the Queering Immigration Film Program at Trans Anthology Film Archives
September 24th is a complete day of international strategy to end LGBTQI/ HIV+ detention
Timeline
Early bird registration open June 1, 2017 and closes on August 1, 2017
Workshop proposals and scholarship applications are due August 1st, 2017.
Scholarship priority will be given to those that submit a workshop proposals.
International proposals are notified of acceptance with one week of submission
All local/ national proposals are notified of acceptance by August 7th, 2017.
Registration Costs
Early Bird Impacted Community Member $25.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Early Bird Student/ Aging $50.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Early Bird Regular Registration $75.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Solidarity Registration $150.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Institutional Registration $300.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
**Comped registration for:
volunteers, email qi@qdep.org
25 Comped tickets available to New School Students and Staff, email qi@qdep.org with your New School email; one ticket per email.
Go to tiny.cc/qi4 to register, submit a proposal, and for information on scholarships!
