Americans today have been bearing witness to a new upsurge in deportation, the forced removal of immigrants, refugees, or other “foreigners” out of the country in which they reside or to which they have fled. As a changed national leadership in the United States has shifted removal efforts into higher gear, fiery controversies have ensued, and accusations have flown. Our panel, and the photo exhibit it opens, seek a concrete, sober, thoroughly contextualized understanding of what this new deportation has meant. We seek to fathom especially what it has entailed for deportees themselves, but also what it continues to mean for the rest of us, as Long Islanders and American citizens. Through Rachel Woolf’s account of assembling the award-winning photographic exhibition, through scholarly analysis and perspective, also through summaries provided by those closely following deportation’s impacts on Long Island itself, our panel illuminates the multifaceted significance of deportation in our own here-and-now. Read more »

MODERATOR:
Christopher Sellers, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice, and Policy

SPEAKERS:
Rachel Woolf, Photographer, “Deported”
Nancy Hiemstra, Geographer; Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Author of Deportation and Detention (forthcoming, 2019)
Nina Siulc, Anthropologist; Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Rutgers University; Unwelcome Citizens (forthcoming)
Irma Solis, New York Civil Liberties Union (Suffolk County)
Richard Koubek, Long Island Jobs with Justice

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