Immigration Detention Inc

Join MWWIR for a discussion with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon on their new book, Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants, which examines the numerous ways in which immigration detention generates significant profits, while detainees are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine operation. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, Hiemstra and Conlon provide critical historical and contemporary context for understanding the surging detention numbers under the second Trump administration. Participants will receive the location of the event with their registration confirmation. 

 

Nancy Hiemstra is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University (Long Island, NY). 

 

Deirdre Conlon is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Leeds (West Yorkshire, UK).