Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility) / Free and open to the public

Citizenship on the Edge. Sex/Gender/Race: 2016-2017 Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism
Program.

in partnership with the Alice Paul Center

LIFE ON EDGE: Central American Asylum Seekers and the Limits of U.S.Liberalism

MARÍA
JOSEFINA SALDAÑA-PORTILLO is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She has published articles in
the U.S. and Latin America on revolutionary subjectivity, trade
liberalization and the drug economy, and on racial formation and
indigeneity in the United States and Mexico. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (2003)and Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States (2016).

For more information on Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo and a copy of her paper: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/event/mar%C3%ADa-josefina-salda%C3%B1a-portillo

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