2023 UIC Sociology Colloquium Series with UIC Black Studies
The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil with Dr. Katherine Jensen (UW Madison)
September 27, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Brazil is widely lauded as the best place in the world for refugees. Yet its celebrated policies veil how racism shapes the everyday politics of asylum. With rare ethnographic access inside the state, the color of asylum captures how racial meanings and hierarchies are produced through everyday bureaucratic practices and encounters. As Syrians, Congolese, and other refugees seek and obtain asylum, the state variable incorporates them into a deeply unequal racial political order. In the process, refugees learn different lessons about brazil and their place in it.
*light lunch will be provided
Date posted
Sep 14, 2023
Date updated
Sep 21, 2023