Mapping Deportations
Mapping Deportations Website
Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement has favored Europeans and their descendants while targeting non-white migrants for exclusion, removal, and punishment. Although U.S. immigration law and policy have shifted over time, the nation’s immigration enforcement regime has consistently produced this result. Click here to visit the Mapping Deportations website.
Mapping Deportations Launch Event
Wednesday, September 17th
1 pm PT on Zoom
Join the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law (CILP) and Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) for this webinar launch of a groundbreaking new project: Mapping Deportations.
Mapping Deportations is a website that uses maps, data, and timelines to unmask the relationship between race and U.S. immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history. Tracking every deportation since 1895, the data shows that 96% of all deportations have been to countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. In short, Mapping Deportations illustrates how the immigration laws, and particularly deportation policy, have engineered the racial make-up of the country since its founding—a phenomenon that is taking place in plain sight today.
This event will feature a webinar presentation and discussion about the website between MDH Cartographer Mariah Tso (Diné), MDH founder Kelly Lytle Hernández, and CILP Faculty Co-Director Ahilan Arulanantham, and will be moderated by CILP Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura.
Click here to register for the Mapping Deportations Launch on Zoom.
Documenting Deportation: A Dialogue on Race, Removal, and Resistance
Thursday, September 18th
6 pm in Downtown Los Angeles
Join us for a conversation about how we visualize the system disappearing immigrants from the streets of Los Angeles and beyond. This in-person, public event will discuss the current siege on migrant communities as the most-recent attack in a long history of racist immigration enforcement. The event will also introduce Mapping Deportations—a new website and organizing tool—that unmasks the past and present of structural racism in the U.S. immigration regime.
Hosted by filmmaker Alex Rivera, the evening will feature a conversation with one of the nation’s leading litigators, Ahilan Arulanantham, the award-winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández; rebel cartographer Mariah Tso (Diné), and visionary advocates Pablo Alvarado and Sirine Shebaya. The panelists will use film, data, and dialogue to engage the audience in this urgent conversation.
This event is sponsored by Borderlands Cinematic Arts, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, Million Dollar Hoods, and the National Immigration Project.
Dinner will be provided.
Click here to register for Documenting Deportation: A Dialogue on Race, Removal, and Resistance.