Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US - Incite at Columbia University

Join our open forum on immigration enforcement in the US and the racialization and criminalization of Latine communities, featuring Dr. David Hernández (Latina/o Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy, Mt. Holyoke), Zuleima Dominguez (Make the Road NY); and Dr. Felicia Arriaga (Dignity Not Detention; Baruch College).

Dr. Hernández will situate the present within the longer history of US immigration detention and deportation. We will then hear from Dominguez and Dr. Arriaga about how immigration enforcement is unfolding in NYC and strategies being developed to counter it. Brief presentations will be followed by a Q&A, during which attendees can ask questions and voice their concerns. The open forum is co-sponsored by Columbia's Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. We will have English to Spanish translation.

This event is part of a year-long program that CSSD has been organizing, Countering the Carceral State, which explores the crises of disciplinary enforcement at home and abroad.