Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Loma Pelona Conference Center Loma Pelona Center, Santa Barbara, CA

Race and gender have shaped the law, public policy, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history.  At the present moment, however, shifting patterns of migration and the current administration's use of family separation as a deterrent has led to an intense struggle to define migration, the migrant, and the family. This conference explores these struggles on both [...]

Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S-Mexico Borderlands

Loma Pelona Conference Center Loma Pelona Center, Santa Barbara, CA

A Workshop at UC Santa Barbara Keynote Speaker Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, Women’s Studies, History, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan, will provide they keynote talk on “Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in America, 2d. ed. (UC Press, 2015) and Telling [...]

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