Migrationsseminar: Forvist til hjemlandet – deporterede dominicanere og deres historier

TIME: Thursday, 26 January, 14.45-16.30

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Nordskov Meeting Room, Wilders Plads 8H, 3rd floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

This migration seminar will focus on Dominican deportees. The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States.

TIME: Thursday, 26 January, 14.45-16.30

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Nordskov Meeting Room, Wilders Plads 8H, 3rd floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

This migration seminar will focus on Dominican deportees. The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States.

In his recent book “Banished to the Homeland” (Columbia University Press, 2011) David C. Brotherton and his co-author Luis Barrios are following thousands of these individuals over a seven-year period, use a unique combination of sociological and criminological reasoning to isolate the forces that motivate emigrants to leave their homeland and then commit crimes in the Unites States violating the very terms of their stay.

The behavior of deportees is marked in the contradictory effects of dependency and colonialism: the seductive draw of capitalism typified by the American dream versus the material needs of immigrant life; the interests of an elite security state versus the desires of immigrant workers and families to succeed; and the ambitions of the Latino community versus the political realities of those designing crime and immigration laws, which disadvantage poor and vulnerable populations.

Speaker: David C. Brotherton, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA

Programme:

14.45-15.00: Arrival and Coffee

15.00-15.10: Introduction; Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Senior Researcher, DIIS

15.10-15.50: Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile; David C. Brotherton, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA

15.50-16.30: Open Discussion

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Read more about the seminar and please use the online registration form from the website no later than Wednesday, 25 January at 12.00 noon.

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.