Author Ana Muñiz (UC Irvine) will present a talk on her book, Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond.
Political discourse on US immigration has focused on what’s visible: border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems undergirding enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance systems since the 1980s, Borderland Circuitry investigates how the deployment of this infrastructure shapes immigration enforcement. Muñiz illuminates three intertwined phenomena: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement.
A light lunch from Dos Hermanos tacos will be served.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Racial Capitalism Initiative, the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of Sociology, and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies
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