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Citizenship beyond borders?
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| Date: |
Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| Time: |
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM |
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Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall |
| Description: |
Citizenship beyond borders? The immigrant rights movement on where we're from and where we're going. "Why you checking papers? No one is illegal!" "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us?" "No papers, no fear!" These are some of the slogans used by contemporary immigrant rights movements, from DREAM activists to the nationwide protests against federal deportations and anti-immigrant laws. If we take these slogans at face value, how can U.S. citizenship exist without immigration laws, national borders, and a common cultural identity? Examining protests, media outreach, slogans, and other forms of activism, Dr. Josue David Cisneros, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University unpacks immigrant rights movements and what they can teach us about where we've come from and where we're going. He explores the immigrant movement's vision of citizenship rooted in shared humanity instead of the nation-state, a citizenship that embraces racial and cultural difference rather than homogeneity, and whether this is a vision of U.S. citizenship that we should embrace or reject. |
| Website: |
http://college.wfu.edu/aes/ |
| Sponsor: |
American Ethnic Studies |
| Name: |
Alessandra Beasley Von Burg |
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| Phone: |
(336) 758-4441 |
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