Global Migration Archive (2016-2017)

Please see below for archived events from 2016-2017.

ANGELA GARCIA GLOBAL MIGRATION WORKING GROUP

Angela Garcia, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

“Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law”

Discussant will be Jennifer Jones, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

  • Date(s): Thursday, 11/17 1:00 PM to Thursday, 11/17 2:30 PM
  • Campus Address: Lower Level – Stevenson Hall
  • Address: 701 S. Morgan St.
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Contact: Linda Vavra
  • Email: lvavra@uic.edu
  • Website: http://www.huminst.uic.edu
  • Phone: (312) 996-6352

PATRISIA MACIAS GLOBAL MIGRATION WORKING GROUP

Book Presentation by Patrisia Macias, Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago:

”From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post Civil Rights America”

Commentators: Adam Goodman and Amalia Pallares, UIC Latino and Latin American Studies

  • Date(s): Thursday, 2/2 3:30 PM to Thursday, 2/2 5:00 PM
  • Campus Address: Stevenson Hall
  • Address: 701 S. Morgan St.
  • Location: Chicago, IL, United States
  • Contact: Linda Vavra
  • Email: lvavra@uic.edu
  • Website: http://www.huminst.uic.edu
  • Phone: (312) 996-6352

GLOBAL MIGRATION WORKING GROUP: JENNIFER JONES, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

Jennifer Jones
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

“The New Civil Rights Coalition: Reshaping Policy, Public Discourse, and Radical Formation in the New South”

Discussant: Alexandra Filindra, UIC Political Science

  • Date(s): Thursday, 3/9 2:00 PM to Thursday, 3/9 3:30 PM
  • Campus Address: Lower Level – Stevenson Hall
  • Address: 701 S. Morgan
  • Location: Chicago, IL
  • Contact: Linda Vavra
  • Email: lvavra@uic.edu
  • Website: https://huminst.uic.edu/
  • Phone: 312-996-6352

GLOBAL MIGRATION WORKING GROUP: NICHOLAS DE GENOVA

Nicholas De Genova

“Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of a Deadly Border”

Discussant: Glenda Garelli, DePaul University

  • Date(s): Thursday, 3/30 12:30 PM to Thursday, 3/30 2:00 PM
  • Campus Address: Lower Level – Stevenson Hall
  • Address: 701 S. Morgan
  • Location: Chicago, IL
  • Contact: Linda Vavra
  • Email: lvavra@uic.edu
  • Website: https://huminst.uic.edu/
  • Phone: 312-996-6352

GLOBAL MIGRATION WORKING GROUP: GALYA RUFFER, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Galya Ruffer Senior Lecturer Political Science and Director of the Center for Forced Migration Studies, Northwestern University

“Undermining U.S. Refugee Law? Government Agents, Expedited Removal and Regional Responses to Central American migrants as an Interactional Deterrence Process”

Discussant: Helena Olea, UIC Criminology

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION:
University Hall Room 1550
Department of Latin American and Latino Studies

  • Date(s): Thursday, 4/13 2:30 PM to Thursday, 4/13 3:45 PM
  • Campus Address: LALS – UH 1550
  • Address: 701 S. Morgan St.
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Contact: Linda Vavra
  • Email: lvavra@uic.edu
  • Website: http://www.huminst.uic.edu
  • Phone: 312-996-6452