rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/form/immigration-policy?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-form-area-immigration-policy' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> NYC-DSA Citywide Political Education Committee https://actionnetwork.org/groups/wg-citywide-poli-ed https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/forms/photos/000/850/966/normal/border-patrol-immigration-1-1487966773.webp Felicia Arriaga, Professor of Sociology at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, will lead a course on the weaponization of immigration policy and how the state has always used the iron fist in dealing with the immigrant working class. The course meets on 10/22, 11/5, 11/19, 12/3, 7-9pm. Location TBA. The course will address how gendered racial capitalism shapes migration policy in an international comparative framework and how communities have always resisted this oppressive system. It will cover some of the main themes in U.S. based migration policy historically as well how these processes were adopted, merged, and exported to other countries. Other topics will include how nations decide who can and cannot migrate, how citizenship is established, what factors shape policies and their implementation, the increased role of municipalities in making policy towards immigrants, refugees, and immigrant integration and deportation. While our primary focus will be on migration policy and its assorted actors in the context of the contemporary United States, we will begin with theoretical foundations, consider historical examples, and focus on resistance efforts from non-European migrants to better understand the NYC migrant community. We'll follow a mostly chronological order beginning with European colonization of the Americas, infrastructure expansion of the 18th century, the Industrial boom of the 19th Century, the impacts of the Civil Rights Act, and the current state of affairs. Along with class readings, participants are expected to listen and/or read immigrant oral histories from across the U.S. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/immigration-policy