Tag: immigration
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Ballin’ During the Global War on Terror: South Asian American Sporting Cultures and the Politics of Masculinity
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2018 Time: 4:30-6:00 PM Location: Kohlberg 228 Ballin’ During the Global War on Terror: South Asian American Sporting Cultures and the Politics of Masculinity Stanley Thangaraj, City University of New York Instead of universalizing masculinity (Kimmel 2005; Connell 1995), this talk theorizes the politics of masculinity through the taken for…
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Maria Castaneda ’18, Dreaming at Swarthmore
The Peace and Conflict Studies Program stands with our student, Maria Castaneda ’18, who was featured in a story this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Maria is pursuing a special major in Spanish and Peace and Conflict Studies, and we appreciate all she contributes to our intellectual and campus community. “She was 3 years old…
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Swarthmore Peace and Conflict Studies Students in the News
Peace and Conflict Studies special major Maria Castaneda ’18 and Peace and Conflict Studies minor Michael Nafziger ’18 were recently featured in the news. Read Maria’s story related to President Trump’s order ending the DACA program here. “From Mexico to Swarthmore, a dream now in danger” Follow Michael’s involvement in our community in the wake of the alt-right controversy in Charlottesville,…
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Challenges to immigrant communities under Trump
President Donald Trump campaigned on aggressively curtailing immigration to the US and ‘securing’ US boarders by stopping the flow of immigrants. In the weeks since taking office, the new administration rapidly moved through a series of executive orders, which left the nation’s airports in chaos, spurred national protests, and brought broad, although not universal, rebuke…
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Amnesty or Expulsion: What Our Religious Traditions Teach Us about Dealing with Undocumented Immigrants
The Interfaith Center invites you to its inaugural discussion in its Religion and Society series entitled: “Amnesty or Expulsion: What Our Religious Traditions Teach Us about Dealing with Undocumented Immigrants” Wednesday, November 2 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm in Bond Hall The discussion will be led by: Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, Professor Emeritus and Immigrant Rights…