Free Online Event: EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE - The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

eCornell - Wednesday, May 01, 2024, 1pm EDT

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In this discussion, Marielena Hincapié, Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, interviews Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer at The New Yorker and immigration expert, on his recently published book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. They will discuss how the politics and policy of immigration in the United States have been forged from the 1980s to the present.

The United States and Central America are deeply entwined — the result not just of American foreign policy but also of its domestic policy; the harder the U.S. government has tried to disentangle these worlds at the U.S.-Mexico border, the more thoroughly they’ve fused. This is a look at living history, told through individuals from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who’ve had to risk everything to save themselves and those around them. This conversation will focus on immigration policy, politics, and history, but, above all, the moral imperatives of storytelling.

Co-sponsors:
Cornell Law School Migration and Human Rights Program
Cornell Migrations Initiative
Cornell Latino Studies Program
National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
Migration Policy Center (MPI)
FWD.us

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
How the U.S. asylum system came into being
How U.S. foreign policy in Central America shaped immigration policies decades later
What the history of the U.S. and Central America can teach us about immigration policy in 2024
What it means to tell someone else’s story as a journalist

SPEAKERS

Jonathan Blitzer

STAFF WRITER

The New Yorker

 

 

Marielena Hincapie

DISTINGUISHED IMMIGRATION FELLOW

Cornell Law School