University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
A border is what separates things, and the border’s very existence is inseparable both from the power that sustains it and from the possibility of its transgression. In recent years, the relationship between borders—political, geographical and symbolic—and State power has taken on a special significance in the public arena. Transgression, for its part, is an […]
This talk is part of the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, Oct. 10-12, 2019. For a PDF of the conference program: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/IHMS-Conference-ProgramOct2b.pdf This event is co-sponsored by LAIS.
Race and gender have shaped the law, public policy, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history. At the present moment, however, shifting patterns of migration and the current administration’s use of family separation as a deterrent has led to an intense struggle to define migration, the migrant, and the family. This conference […]