Events
Upcoming Events
Briefing: ICE Detention Centers in NJ and Immigrant Communities |
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Dec 18, 2020: Immigrants detained at the Bergen County jail have been on hunger strike for several weeks, while protesters outside have met with escalating police violence. At a fiery Hudson County commissioners meeting on Nov. 24 that lasted 12 hours, over 100 people unanimously spoke against the renewal of a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold immigrant detainees in the county jail for revenue. Read More
Ulla Berg is Associate Professor of Latino & Caribbean Studies and Anthropology in SAS-NB. Her current work centers on migrant detention and deportation, the spread of Covid in NJ detention centers and an (anti)mapping project in the Americas:https://en.inmovilidadamericas.org/ Mary Rizzo is Assistant Professor of History at SAS-Newark and a member of the Abolish ICE NY-NJ coalition and author of Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire (2020) and Class Acts: Young Men and the Rise of Lifestyle Whitney Strub is Associate Professor of History at SAS-Newark, and author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right and Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression and co-editor of Porno Chic and the Sex Wars.
Register for this event at: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsfumvpzwjHtcVe324COe4jo4DJ-ZfSXEC |
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Location Zoom | |||||||