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Studying Up the Volatile State: What Deportation Orders Teach Us About the US Immigration System

032 Eggers Hall

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Guest Speaker: Austin Kocher, Faculty Fellow, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University. 

The U.S. immigration system is in crisis.  As a result of Obama- and Trump-era policies, immigrants are arrested, detained, and deported at historic levels. Yet the rapidly-changing policy landscape has created unprecedented volatility for the immigration system, prompting new criticisms of immigration restrictions and wall-building from both inside and outside the government. This talk will use deportation orders as a critical lens through which to examine why the immigration system has become so volatile and how volatility is being weaponized by the state against undocumented immigrant. 

For more information, and for accessibility and accommodations requests, please contact Sarah Kondrk at sjkondrk@syr.edu or call the Geography office at 315.443.2605.
Sponsored by the Geography Department.  


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