Institutions of Immigrant Removal: The Rise of the American Deportation Regime
Center for Advanced Study
912 West Illinois Street
Urbana
In 2012, the US deported almost 410,000 immigrants—the most in its history. This talk traces the growth of America's deportation machinery from a small-scale effort aimed at eliminating specific immigrant "threats" to the massive and complex contemporary system, and explores the evolving politics and practice of expelling immigrants deemed undesirable for American society.
James Barret (Department of History) will give a related talk How Immigrants Became 'Americans:' The Example of Polish Americans,October 20 at noon
The CAS Initiative on Immigration – History and Policy brought together scholars in the social sciences, law, computer science, engineering and humanities to explore new approaches to immigration and its controversies. CAS Resident Associates Jim Barrett (History) and Gale Summerfield (Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program) led this initiative.
Graduate Student, Department of History