Immigration Justice Presentation and Social,
Friday 9/13 5:30-7:30 Optimism Brewing Company
“The Border Crossed Us: A History of Movement, Border-Making, and What that Means for Us Today”
“We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us” is a common saying among indigenous people from the US-Mexico border to Palestine. How did borders come about, and how have people resisted them? In this talk, immigration historian, Randa Tawil, will give a brief history of mobility and border control in the US, focusing on the policing of black, Indian, Mexican, and Asian free and unfree labor—and continual forms of resistance. Focusing on the intertwined histories of working people, Tawil will give a historical and theoretical background to where we are today, and what we can do about it.
Cinema DNA: La La Land and the Color Line: October 12, SIFF Cinema
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Publications
Academic: Race in Transit: Tracing the Politics of Migration from Ottoman Syria through US Empire. (Stanford Press, 2025). ‘Race, Gender, and Migration’ (9 Apr. 2026), in ed. Amanda Capern Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women’s History . Online edn, Oxford Academic, 2026. “Time difference : pregnancy and deportability in early twentieth-century United States” in ed. Danielle Battisti and… Read more
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