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Guest: Professor Shirley Leyro
What does belonging mean to undocumented students in CUNY? How does the threat of deportation impact the emotional well-being of those students dreaming for a better life through higher education? Professor Shirley Leyro discusses her “CUNY belonging” project and the responsibility of CUNY Professors to these young people.
Guest: Professor Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez & Professor Jayne Mooney
Professor Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez and Professor Jayne Mooney on the issues facing immigrant women who have survived domestic violence, and the way in which intersectionality and reflexive ethnographic techniques can build connections of solidarity through research.
Guest: Professor Sarah Tosh
“Crimmigration” is a sociolegal concept that refers to the increasing amalgamation of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. Professor Sarah Tosh discusses how this has resulted in a deportation pipeline in the US, streamlining immigrants into removals by way of spurious means.
Guest: Professor Nancy Hiemstra
A carceral logic has gripped the US states approach to poverty and criminality since the neoliberal turn in the 1980s. Professor Nancy Hiemstra examines how this has extended to immigration enforcement in ways that reinforces racial and market fundamentalist logic in turn leading to an explosion of migrant detention centers.
Guest: Todd Miller
Before a migrant reaches US soil they must contend with the hard US border. Award winning journalist Todd Miller discusses the expansion of the US border into the global south, and the expansion of the securitization and militarization of the US border since 9/11.
Guest: Professor David Brotherton
What is the deportation regime? In our first episode, we will discuss with Professor David Brotherton the history of forced removal in the United States, and the reaction of academia to this phenomenon.