Post-Civil Rights Nativism
Paula Ioanide discusses : Anti-Immigrant Housing Ordinances, Overpopulation Discourses...
When: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 4 p.m.
Where: Women's Ctr., UCSB Campus, CA
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Lectures
Description: In "Post-Civil Rights Nativism: Anti-Immigrant Housing Ordinances, Overpopulation Discourses and the Centrality of Reproductive Politics," Paula Ioanide, dissertation scholar in Women's Studies, examines the ways overpopulation discourses deployed by anti-immigrant organizations shaped the logics and arguments of housing and parking ordinances in Escondido, CA. Particularly, she investigates the sexual and reproductive politics explicit and/or implicit in calls for “solving” America’s overpopulation problem through immigrant restriction, forced displacement and disenfranchisement. She argues that overpopulation discourses, while masked by pseudo-scientific neutrality, deploy cultural fantasies of immigrant women, particularly Latinas, as “over-reproductive” and continue the historical assumption that racialized reproduction is the primary cause of poverty.
For more information about this event or to accommodate a disability, please contact Beth Currans, program director, at the UCSB Women’s Center, (805) 893-3778, or by e mail at elizabeth.currans@sa.ucsb.edu. This event is free and open to the public, however, there is a charge for parking and there are parking permit dispensers in all of the parking lots. These dispensers do not give change, but they do take credit cards. There is ample parking available in the new parking structure, Parking Lot 22, directly across the walkway from the new Student Resource Building where the Women’s Center is located.
Phone: 805-893-3778
Event posted April 9, 2008
Last updated April 9, 2008
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