Center for Advanced Study 2014-2015 Interdisciplinary Initiative Retrospective Focusing on the Initiative on Immigration – History and Policy presents Emily Pope-Obeda (History), who will give a presentation in the CAS Interdisciplinary Initiative Retrospective entitled “Institutions of Immigrant Removal: The Rise of the American Deportation Regime” on Wednesday, November 12, 2014. The presentation starts at noon in the first floor seminar room, Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois St., Urbana.
In 2012, the U.S. deported almost 410,000 immigrants – the most in its history. This talk traces the growth of America’s deportation machinery from a small-scale effort aimed at eliminating specific immigrant “threats” to the massive and complex contemporary system, and explores the evolving politics and practice of expelling immigrants deemed undesirable for American society.
This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or cas.illinois.edu
Center for Advanced Study Interdisciplinary Initiatives offer campus the opportunity to engage in a yearlong and in-depth conversation about a topic relevant to our entire scholarly community. For the 15th-anniversary year of this prestigious program, CAS has invited back a few of our former CAS Resident Associates to reflect on the initiatives they helped organize and how their work has evolved since.
The CAS Initiative on Immigration – History and Policy brought together scholars in the social sciences, law, computer science, engineering and humanities to explore new approaches to immigration and its controversies. CAS Resident Associates Jim Barrett (History) and Gale Summerfield (Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program) led this initiative.
Thanks to the Center for Advanced Study listserv for this information item.
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