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What does it mean for increasing numbers of people to be undocumented? This conference addresses the political, historical, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of an “undocumented” status. We are interested in: the historical roots of citizenship, especially as related to the rise of nation states; the obligations that citizens should contemplate in relation to non-citizen residents; the mobilizing strategies being pursued by activists, advocates, and immigrants themselves; the philosophical and legal foundations of sanctuary movements and other institutional responses; the kind of enforcement non-citizen immigrants are facing as they resist; the larger migrant and refugee crises gripping the world; and the rise of ethno-racial and nationalist resentment and backlash against immigrants, migrants, and refugees.
Faculty Sponsors: Desmond Jagmohan (Department of Politics) and Patricia Fernández-Kelly (Department of Sociology)
Organized by: PIIRS Research Community: Peoples and Cultures Across Borders and co-sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development