UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies Program

LAIS Undergraduate Student Conference 2019

Santa Barbara Harbor RoomUCen

The displacement of peoples fleeing violence and extreme poverty in their home countries is one of the most pressing problems worldwide. Some telling examples are taking place in Latin America. According to the UN and Doctors Without Borders, an estimated 500,000 people flee Central America for Mexico and the US every year, and around 3 …

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Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Loma Pelona Conference Room

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 …

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International Graduate Student Conference: Borders, Power and Transgression

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 …

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