Exploring the Impact of Recent Changes in US Immigration Law & Policy on Migration Dynamics in Latin America

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Last day to Register for this in-person event:  Wednesday, March 12.

This event is being presented in collaboration with MITA (Madison International Trade Association).

The Venue for this in-person event will be in the Northwoods Rm (3rd floor) at Union South on the UW Campus.  Parking is available in Lot 80 beneath Union South (enter from W. Dayton St.) and Lot 20 at 1390 University Ave.

Reception with appetizers and cash bar 5:30 - 6:00, presentation with Q&A 6:00 - 7:30.

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Dr. Sara McKinnon will present:  "Exploring the Impact of Recent Changes in US Immigration Law & Policy on Migration Dynamics in Latin America"

Dr. McKinnon is a Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture in the Department of Communication Arts, and Faculty Director of Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies.  She co-chairs UW-Madison’s Human Rights Program and has affiliations in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Chican & Latin Studies. Her current research examines foreign policy rhetoric in an era of globalization, considering as case studies collaborations between the United States, Mexico, and Central American countries since the 1980s to address regional issues such as drug trafficking, corruption, and migration. She is also working on a collaborative project to expand the legal information about US immigration and refugee programs and legal counsel available to migrants throughout Latin America as they consider safe options for movement and resettlement.  For more information about this project: https://migrationamericas.commarts.wisc.edu/

Dr. McKinnon has published three books. Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2016), examines the gender discourse that has emerged in U.S. immigration and refugee law between the 1980 Refugee Act and 2014. In this project she analyzed a range of gender and sexuality-related political asylum cases against public discourse concerning globalization, women’s rights as human rights, displacement, migration, and sexual violence. The book identifies what gender means in U.S. asylum law and it examines the ways gender and gendered subjects as political serve U.S. national and international interests. Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (Penn State University Press, 2016) is a co-edited collection that considers a range of approaches for using ethnographic and field-based methods in doing rhetorical research, and she has a forthcoming co-edited collection, Foreign Policy Rhetorics in the Global Era: Concepts and Case Studies with Michigan State University Press.

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