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2018 | A Historical Approach to the Current Immigration Debate

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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches courses on the history of immigration, and on Latina/o and Latin American History. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton, 2008) and Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean (Princeton, 2019).

Speaker's Synopsis: Professor Hoffnung-Garskof will discuss the history the immigration system in the United States as a necessary context for understanding contemporary debates over asylum, mass deportation, deferred action for childhood arrival, and family separation.

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