arifa

Full Name
Arifa Raza-Bayona
First Name
Arifa
Last Name
Raza
Affiliation
Faculty
Administrative Faculty
Title
Assistant Professor
Office
Alder 206
Departments
IRES
Interests
Immigration/crimmigration, Critical Race Theory, carceral studies, comparative ethnic studies, human trafficking
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Biography

Arifa Raza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies. She received a a J.D. from UCLA in 2015 where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review, and a Ph. D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Riverside in 2018. She was also a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for 2022-2023. Dr. Raza's research examines the criminalization and racialization of immigrants through humanitarian laws, focusing on  relief for victims of human trafficking and immigrant children. Her scholarship is grounded in her experience as a non-profit immigration attorney where she specialized in deportation defense and representation of detained individuals. She has practiced before the Los Angeles and El Paso immigration courts as well as the Board of Immigration Appeals.

 

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