CESR Speaker Series: Professor Perla Guerrero

Subtitle: 
A Southern Take on Deportation: How Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Education Policies Displaced Migrants to Mexico
Activity Type: 
Lecture
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Presenter: 
Professor Perla Guerrero
Date: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 14:30 to 15:45
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
4303 Wesley W. Posvar Hall (CUE Commons Room)
Contact Person: 
CESR
Contact Email: 
cesr@pitt.edu

Title: A Southern Take on Deportation: How Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Education Policies Displaced Migrants to Mexico

Description: This talk seeks to understand how local, state, and national laws shape deportation and coerced return for Mexicans at the turn of the twenty-first century. Guerrero argues that two types of laws were particularly devastating to undocumented communities—education-related legislation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agreements. Her research shows that regional US differences in policing and immigration detention, paired with local policies and state laws, dramatically affect who is deported and who is coerced to return to their birth country. Thus, Latinx Southerners are disproportionately represented by the US deportation regime.

Bio: Perla M. Guerrero is an Associate Professor of American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research and teaching interests include relational race and ethnicity, space and place, immigration and illegality, labor, and U.S. history. She is the author of Nuevo South: Latinas/os, Asians, and Remaking of Place and is currently working on her second book, Deportation’s Aftermath: Displacement and Making a Life in Exile.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Ethnic Studies Research
Center for Latin American Studies
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No