Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children

Event description

  • Free
  • Inclusion
  • Open to the public

Based on ten years of work with immigrant children as young as six years old in Arizona and California― and featuring an analysis of three hundred drawings, theater performances and family interviews―Silvia Rodriguez Vega provides accounts of children’s challenges with deportation and family separation during the Obama and Trump administrations. While much of the literature on immigrant children depicts them as passive, when viewed through this lens they appear as agents of their own stories. Silvia Rodriguez Vega presents her new book "Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children"

Silvia Rodriguez Vega is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

This event is co-sponsored by the School of Transborder Studies and the School of Human Evolution & Social Change

Additional information

Event contact

Dustin Davila-Bojorquez
602-496-3339
ddavilab@asu.edu
Date

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Time

3 p.m.4:15 p.m. (MST)

Location

Memorial Union #241C Ventana C

Cost

Free