Migration Workshop: "Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times"

Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times by Cassaundra Rodriguez

Panelists:Cassaundra Rodriguez, University of NevadaIsabel Martinez, Northeastern UniversitySarah Sherman-Stokes, Boston University

Living in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment, your son could be arrested at work, or your mother’s deportation hearing is postponed—again. Such uncertainty and fear are the reality of life for mixed-status families—those that include both undocumented immigrants and US citizens. In Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times’, Cassaundra Rodriguez explores how members of mixed-status families experience and articulate belonging in the United States. The sixteen million people in the US who fall under this classification share the fear of a family member’s possible deportation or the anxiety of leaving behind a child or elderly relative.

Join us for a discussion of these important issues with Contested Americans author Cassaundra Rodriguez. Comments will be offered by Isabel Martinez from Northeastern University and Rachel Nolan from Boston University.

For those unable to attend in person, we are also offering a Zoom option to join remotely

Online:

https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpdOCorjwiGN3HJpKGO-T30vjtSR4MEgDv#/registration

When 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2024
Location CISS Conference Room, 704 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th floor