Rubenstein 414 (Democracy Lab) HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join David Cortez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame for his talk:
“Broken Mirrors: Latino, La Migra, and the Conflict of Being Both.”
This discussion is part of the American Politics Speaker Series sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for American Political Studies.
This will be an in-person event open to Harvard ID holders only. Lunch will be served.
Registration is not required to attend, but is requested: REGISTER HERE.
Talk abstract:
How do Latino immigration law enforcement agents internalize and deal with the tensions engendered by their overlapping, yet fundamentally contradictory identities? Drawing on interviews with, and observations of, one-hundred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas, Prof. Cortez finds that Latino immigration agents confront the conflict of their overlapping identities every day; not merely internally, but in the reality of their institutional duties and the communities they call home. But rather than discarding their ethnic identities as wholly incompatible with their role as state-agents (or the other way around), they find ways to accommodate the two.
For more information about this event, please visit the Ash Center website.