Cultures of Dispossession Lecture: Pregnant on Arrival: The Making of the Illegal Immigrant
Sponsors: Women and Gender Studies. Department of Philosophy, S-CAR, New Century College, African and African American Studies, Sociology and Anthropology Department
Past Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, E, #334 / Book Sales and Signing After Lecture –Room 240K Johnson Center
From 1997 to 2004, Ireland’s headlines recast pregnant immigrants as “illegals” entering the country to gain legal residency through childbirth. Eithne Luibhéid offers unvarnished insight into how categories of immigrant legal status emerge and change, how sexual regimes figure in these processes, and how efforts to prevent illegal immigration redefine nationalist sexual norms and associated racial, gender, economic, and geopolitical hierarchies.
