Mass Deportation and Global Capitalism

January 19, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Saunders 515 Add to Calendar

Abstract: The United States is currently deporting more people than ever before in the history of this country. In this presentation, Tanya Golash-Boza will tell a story about the relationship of mass deportation to global capitalism. This larger story is based on the narratives of 147 people who were deported from the United States to Guatemala, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. These stories shed light on the political economy of international flows of migration and capital as well as gendered racism in immigration policy enforcement. Professor Golash-Boza will explain how deportation is part of the underbelly of global capitalism and global apartheid and argue that this system of mass deportation is unsustainable. Tanya Golash-Boza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of five books, including Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press 2015), which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge 2012), which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm 2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that U.S. immigration policy has on human rights; In addition, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, and human rights, and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera, The Boston Review, The Nation, Counterpunch, The Houston Chronicle, Racialicious, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dissident Voice.


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Sociology, Mānoa Campus

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