The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School hosts a lecture by Nancy Hiemstra entitled “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement.”

In many states around the world today, immigration and terrorism are discursively conflated, immigrants are scapegoated as the cause of economic downturns, and xenophobic publics fear are changing cultural and national identities. Amidst contemporary public and political debates over immigration, detention and deportation have become favored mechanisms in most national approaches to border and immigration enforcement. Policymakers typically frame detention as the separation by containment of unwanted immigrant bodies from national space, and deportation as the end of immigrants’ territorial incursion through their physical removal.

Free admission.