Bringing the Border to Columbus | The Human Cost of Immigration Policy: Conversation with Douglas Massey

Photograph of discarded clothing and materials along immigration path
April 14, 2021
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Zoom

Date Range
2021-04-14 14:00:00 2021-04-14 15:30:00 Bringing the Border to Columbus | The Human Cost of Immigration Policy: Conversation with Douglas Massey Bringing the Border to Columbus Virtual Symposium April 12-16, 2021 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 a very 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. Presenters Douglas S. Massey | Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs *Moderated by Inés Valdez | Associate professor and director, Latina/o Studies Program, The Ohio State University Accessibility If you have questions or require an accommodation, such as live captioning or interpretation, to participate in these events, email Event Coordinator Melissa Rodriguez (rodriguez.796@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before an individual event date will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every attempt to meet requests made after this date.  Acknowledgments This event was funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme. It is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, Department of Sociology and Institute for Population Research. Zoom America/New_York public

Bringing the Border to Columbus Virtual Symposium
April 12-16, 2021

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 a very 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.

Presenters

  • Douglas S. Massey | Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  • *Moderated by Inés Valdez | Associate professor and director, Latina/o Studies Program, The Ohio State University

Accessibility

If you have questions or require an accommodation, such as live captioning or interpretation, to participate in these events, email Event Coordinator Melissa Rodriguez (rodriguez.796@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before an individual event date will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every attempt to meet requests made after this date. 

Acknowledgments

This event was funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme. It is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, Department of Sociology and Institute for Population Research.