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Lecture on Asian Immigrant Families: 'Mothers without Citizenship'

Lecture on Asian Immigrant Families: 'Mothers without Citizenship'

Book event with author Lynn Fujiwara, University of Oregon

Thursday, February 24, 2011
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe 1301

Speaker Lynn Fujiwara reveals a neglected aspect of the Asian immigrant story: the ill effects of welfare reform on Asian immigrant women and families. Mothers without Citizenship intertwines the issues of social and legal citizenship, arguing that these draconian measures redefined immigrants as outsiders whose lack of citizenship was used to deem them ineligible for public benefits. Fujiwara shows how these people are both a vulnerable, invisible group and active agents of change. At once astute policy analysis and insightful research, Mothers without Citizenship is a significant contribution to this country's immigration controversy, offering much-needed nuance to the discussion of the consequences of social policy on Asian immigrant communities and complicating debates solely focused around the politics of the border

 

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Free and open to the public. For more information, contact stacey@asianam.ucla.edu.

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