Anthropology Blog

Posted on September 30th, 2022 in Research by Dr. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz of Loyola University Chicago

Between 2010 and 2018, some 9.3 million people were deported from the United States—nearly two-thirds of them to Mexico. Hear what deportees had to say. Learn about translocal organizing in context to mass deportation.

Everyone is welcome to this free event.
Thursday, October 20 6-7:30 PM
Madam Walker Legacy Center
617 Indiana Ave Ste 320, Indianapolis

Dr. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago, will share how members of mixed-status families navigate law and society in the United States and Mexico. Dr. Gomberg-Muñoz’s work has been supported by four National Science Foundation grants, and she is the author of two books, Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network and Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed Status Families, in addition to a collaboratively edited theory volume, Anthropological Theory for the 21st Century.