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Knot Immigration History: The Meshing of Criminal, Immigration and Terrorism Laws in the US
March 12 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Dr Nalya A. F. Rodriguez explores the making of a crime-immigration-terror (CIT) nexus in the US that has created real and imagined lines of connection between violence in Central America and the Middle East. Through an analysis of US laws passed between 1980 and 2010, Dr. Rodriguez shows how US laws threaded together these two regions through a meshwork of racialized and gendered migration threat narratives.
Dr. Nalya A. F. Rodriguez (they/she) is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies at CSUN and a Maya Ch’orti activist scholar whose work examines how race, media, policing, and U.S. law construct Central Americans as “terrorists” and how communities generate counternarratives of
