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Crimmigration: People, "Security" and Resistance
Date/Time
July 18 (Wednesday),
6:30-8:30 pm
Location
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S
Sponsored by
University of Washington Department of Women Studies
Please join us for a conversation about the characterization and treatment of immigrants as criminals. This evening is being organized by the Women Studies Department at the University of Washington. Co-sponsors include: Hate Free Zone and Washington Community Action Network.
Moderator and participants:
Serena Maurer, Instructor in Women Studies and 2006 graduate of our PhD Program.
Shankar Narayan, Policy Director at Hate Free Zone
Maria Rivera, a local immigrant activist
Maru Villalpando, a Community Organizer with Washington Community Action Network (Washington CAN!)
full description & details:
Crimmigration: People, ‘Security’ and Resistance”
July 18th, 6:30-8:30
New Freeway Hall
5018 Rainier Ave S
The University of Washington Women Studies Department, in partnership with Hate Free Zone and Washington CAN!, is offering a panel discussion about the ways in which U.S. immigrants are being characterized and treated as criminals. The purpose of the discussion is to highlight the perspectives and stories that tend to get left out of contemporary debates on immigration. The panelists will provide an overview of contemporary immigration policies and practices and explain their effects on immigrants’ lives.
The event offers people working across a broad range of sectors--including the law, journalism, social work, policy, education and business--an opportunity to learn from academic, non-profit and activist experience, research and work with immigrants. The panelists will situate immigration to the United States and contemporary responses to it in the context of deepening global economic and political integration. Our discussion will include attention to historical and contemporary federal, state and local immigration legislation, anxieties about immigration and cultural change, and detention and deportation, with a focus on the ways ideologies of race, class, gender, and heterosexuality shape these aspects of immigration. University of Washington undergraduate students who have been studying immigration will also discuss their own research and perspectives on immigration.
Website for more info:
http://depts.washington.edu/webwomen/051506new/news.shtml
Contact Person:
Virginia Lore
Contact Email:
womenst@u.washington.edu
Contact Ph. Number:
206-543-6900
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