November 2nd Webinar/Seminario Web del 2 de noviembre
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Picture description: The Border Studies Program presents Naomi Ortíz, author of Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice. Website: http://www.NaomiOrtiz.com, Ig: NaomiOrtizWriterArtist
Twitter: @ThinkFreestyle. Join us for Naomi’s interactive workshop Monday Nov. 2nd, 2-3 p.m. EST. Live closed captioning and Spanish language interpretation will be provided. Visit borderstudiesprogram.org for more info. and the webinar link. Background in yellow on the left-hand size of the page with Border Studies Program logo on the bottom. Logo includes a jaguar and butterfly looking at each other. Large cactus in the background on the right-hand side of the page with headshot of author Naomi Ortiz.
Twitter: @ThinkFreestyle. Ven al taller interactivo de Naomí el lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2-3:30 hora del este. Habrá subtítulos en vivo e interpretación al español. Visite borderstudiesprogram.org por más información y por el enlace del webinar. Fondo amarillo en la parte izquierda de la página con el logo del Programa de Estudios Fronterizos en la parte inferior de la página. El logo incluye un jaguar y una mariposa que se están mirando. Hay un cactus grande en el fondo en la parte de la derecha de la página con una foto de la autora Naomí Ortíz.
October 26th Webinar: Self-Defense, Social Justice and Community Autonomy
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October 19th interactive webinar: Language Justice: Tools and Training for Social Change
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October 5th webinar: Grassroots Organizing and Legal Avenues in the Struggle for Immigrant Rights
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September 21 webinar: Unpacking the U.S. Midwest as a Borderland
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September 14 webinar: LGBTQ Migrant Organizing: Stories of Resistance and Resilience
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August 17 Webinar now live with English-language subtitles and closed captioning!
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August 31 Webinar: Language Justice, Imperialism, and the U.S. Immigration System
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Second webinar Monday August 24!
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Suggested readings and other background material for webinar block 1 “Current Events in the U.S. / Mexico Border Region”
Posted: August 7, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentGENERAL BACKGROUND
Gloria Anzaldúa: Chapter 1, “The Homeland, Aztlán” from Borderlands / La Frontera
Radiolab Border Trilogy (parts 1-3), https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/border-trilogy
AUGUST 17: TRUMP’S ASYLUM POLICIES AND THE TRANSNATIONAL BORDERLANDS DURING COVID-19
Josiah Heyman, Jeremy Slack, and Emily Guerra. 2018. Bordering a ‘Crisis’: Central American Asylum Seekers and the Reproduction of Dominant Border Enforcement Practices. Journal of the Southwest. 60(4)
Eric Reidy. 2020. Coronavirus and the Halting of Asylum at the U.S. / Mexico Border. The New Humanitarian. https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2020/06/29/Mexico-US-coronavirus-mass-expulsions-asylum-halt
Blanca Navarette and Gabriella Sanchez. 2020. Risks and challenges to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees living under Covid-19 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Migration Policy Practice 10(2)
Human Rights First. 2020. Delivered to Danger: Trump administration sending migrants and asylum seekers to danger. https://deliveredtodanger.org/
NISGUA handout on Asylum Coooperation Agreements: https://nisgua.org/wp-content/uploads/260220-final-R103.pdf
AUGUST 24: INDIGENOUS RESILIENCE, EXTRACTIVISM, AND THE COLONIALITY OF THE U.S. / MEXICO BORDER
Ryan Devereaux,“’We are still here:’ Native Activists in Arizona resist Trump’s Border Wall,” The Intercept, November 24, 2019 https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/arizona-border-wall-native-activists/
Kendra Chamberlain, “Nuclear Colonialism: Indigenous opposition grows against proposal for nation’s largest nuclear storage facility in NM,” The NM Political Report, November 14, 2019 https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2019/11/14/nuclear-colonialism-indigenous-opposition-grows-against-proposal-for-nations-largest-nuclear-storage-facility-in-nm/
Todd Miller. June 12, 2019. “How Border Patrol Occupied the Tohono O’odham Nation” In These Times https://inthesetimes.com/article/21903/us-mexico-border-surveillance-tohono-oodham-nation-border-patrol Gentry,
Blake Gentry, Geoff Boyce, Jose M. Garcia, and Sam Chambers, 2019. Indigenous survival and settler colonial dispossession on the Mexican frontier: The case of Cedagĭ Wahia and Wo’oson O’odham indigenous communities. Journal of Latin American Geography, 18(1), pp.65-93.
O’odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective. Movement Demands Autonomy! An O’odham Perspective on Immigration and Border Controls: https://bermudaradical.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/movement-demands-autonomy-an-oodham-perspective-on-border-controls-and-immigration/
Tamez, Margo, 2012. The Texas–Mexico border wall and Ndé memory. in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, borders, and global crisis, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press
AUGUST 31: LANGUAGE JUSTICE, LANGUAGE IMPERIALISM, AND THE U.S. IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
Blake Gentry. 2020. O’odham Niok? In Indigenous Languages, U.S. ‘Jursidprudence’ Means Nothing. UCLA Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review 37(1)
Democracy Now! 2020. Interpretation Crisis at the Border Leads to Deportation of Mayan-Language Speakers Seeking Refuge https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/17/a_translation_crisis_at_the_border
Yasnaya Aguilar “Our languages are not dying, they are being killed” https://globalvoices.org/2019/04/15/our-languages-are-not-dying-they-are-being-killed/
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Hegemonies of Language and their Discontents: The Southwest North American Region Since 1540, p. 23-27
SEPTEMBER 14: LGBTQ+ MIGRANT ORGANIZING: STORIES OF RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE
Morgan Bassichis, Lee, Alexander, and Spade, Dean. “Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got” in Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Editors Stanley, Eric; Smith, Nat.
TransQueer Pueblo, “#Letters for Liberation from La Palma” https://www.tqpueblo.org/lettersforliberation-from-la-palma
Nicole Narea, “LGBTQ immigrants talk about waiting on 2 life-changing Supreme Court decisions,” Vox, June 18, 2020 https://www.vox.com/2020/6/18/21293872/supreme-court-daca-dreamer-lgbtq-immigration
Katalina Hatfield “The Precarious Position of Transgender Immigrants and Asylum Seekers,” Human Rights Campaign, January 4, 2019 https://www.hrc.org/blog/the-precarious-position-of-transgender-immigrants-and-asylum-seekers
SEPTEMBER 21: UNPACKING THE BORDERLANDS OF THE U.S. MIDWEST
Todd Miller “The Not-so-soft Underbelly of the North” from Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Frontline of Homeland Security San Francisco: City Lights
Nicholas De Genova. 2005. “Locating a Mexican Chicago in the Space of the U.S. Nation-State” and “The Politics of Production” in Working the boundaries: Race, space, and “illegality” in Mexican Chicago. Duke University Press.
Geoff Boyce, 2018. Appearing ‘out of place’: Automobility and the everyday policing of threat and suspicion on the US/Canada frontier. Political Geography, 64, pp.1-12.
Brian Jordan Jefferson, 2017. Digitize and punish: Computerized crime mapping and racialized carceral power in Chicago. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35(5), pp.775-796.
Mijente factsheet on gang databases and immigration enforcement https://mijente.net/2017/12/chicago-gang-database-targets-black-latino-men-infographics/
Virtual Border Studies Fall 2020
Posted: July 23, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentTOPICS AND CALENDAR OF ONLINE WEBINARS, WORKSHOPS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
Current Events in the U.S. / Mexico border region- Eventos actuales en la región fronteriza de los EE.UU y México
*August/agosto 17: Trump’s asylum policies and the transnational borderlands during Covid-19- Las políticas de asilo de Trump y las tierras fronterizas durante Covid-19
*August/agosto 24: Indigenous resilience, militarization, and the coloniality of the U.S. / Mexico border- La resiliencia indígena, la militarización y la colonialidad de la frontera de EE.UU y México
*August/agosto 31: Language justice, migration and border militarization- La justicia lingüística, la migración y la militarización de la frontera
*September/septiembre 14: Gender, sexuality and migration- El género, la sexualidad y la migración
*September/septiembre 21: Unpacking the U.S. Midwest as a borderland- Pensando en el medio oeste de los EE.UU como tierras fronterizas
Tools and Strategies for Organizing and Social Justice- Herramientas y estrategias para la organización y la justicia social
*October/octubre 5: Grassroots organizing and legal avenues in the struggle for immigrant rights- La organización de grupos de base y avenidas legales en la lucha para los derechos de inmigrantes
*October/octubre 19: Language justice: tools and training for social change- La justicia lingüística y herramientas para el cambio social
*October/octubre 26: Self-defense for social justice and community autonomy/La autodefensa para la justicia social y la autonomía comunitaria
*November/noviembre 2: Wellness and the politics of wellness/El bienestar y la política del bienestar
*November/noviembre 9: Social struggle, healing justice and art expression- La lucha social, la justicia restaurativa y la expresión artística
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