Wednesday, April 14, 2-3:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

For the last three decades, politicians in the United States have declared a symbolic and concrete war on immigrants, with profound consequences for vulnerable segments of populations here and in Latin America. Inside the United States, the combination of an immigration enforcement regime and the process of racialization of immigrants as a threat has produced a new Latino underclass. The repressive and punitive character of U.S. immigration laws and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border have had an extremely high human cost.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 7,216 people have died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border between 1998 and 2017. Between 2000 and 2014, 2,721 bodies of people trying to cross the border were recovered in the Arizona desert. In a conversation moderated by Inés Valdez, Douglas Massey will discuss the effects or supposedly unintended consequences of forces of exclusion, punitive immigration laws, and a nation’s war against immigrants.

Presenter:

• Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

This program will be Moderated by Inés Valdez, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Latina/o Studies Program, The Ohio State University

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In conjunction with Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium, April 12-16.