City College Downtown: Patai Program Presents - Cultural Representations of Migrancy, Grievability and Deportabilty in the North American Borderlands by Professor Javier Duran - moderated by Prof Susanna Rosenbaum of City College Downtown.

Professor Javier Duran, The University of Arizona, is a specialist in cultural and interdisciplinary studies along the U.S.-Mexico border. He is a native of the Arizona-Sonora desert region. Dr. Duran’s areas of teaching and research include U.S.-Mexican border studies, Latin American Cultural Studies, Mexican women’s literature and culture, and Chicana/Chicano-Latina/Latino narrative.

He is the author of the book José Revueltas: Una poética de la disidencia published by the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico, five co-edited books on Cultural Studies, and numerous articles on literary and cultural themes. Dr. Duran is currently working on projects dealing with border culture, human security, bio-politics, migrancy and checkpoints.

Susanna Rosenbaum is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Director of the MA in the Study of the Americas. Her research and teaching center immigration, race, and citizenship; gendered labor and neoliberalism; care work; and the Americas.

Her book Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles (Duke University Press 2017) examines how Mexican and Central American domestic workers and their primarily white employers seek to achieve the American Dream. Juxtaposing these two groups, it illustrates how immigrant and native-born women work towards that ideal, how each is indispensable to the other’s quest, and the abiding importance of reproductive labor to this pursuit.

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