The upcoming daylong IHRC symposium called Migration
Across the Global Regimes of Childhood, will be held on Friday, September 21, conceived and organized by Dr. Kelly Condit-Shrestha.
The symposium introduces such categories as "childhood" and "childhood
studies" to
rethink the field of migration studies generally. But it goes further.
It promises to engage directly with the contemporary problem,
particularly the current administration's family separation policy. Our
keynote speaker, Laura
Briggs of UMass Amherst will guide us through the challenge of
facing reality and connecting the past to the present. Taken from their
parents at the border, migrant children are being detained in Custom and
Border Protection facilities across the country.
Variations of historical memories of state-sanctioned violences have
already been recalled in the aftermath of this policy of "zero
tolerance." Condemnations came from many corners, drawing lines to
connect the off-reservation Indian
boarding school experience, the World War II Japanese American
incarceration, and the systematic denial of Black family formations so
central to the American institution of racial slavery and punishment to
the present crisis. The IHRC's first symposium of
this academic year will issue a stark reminder of still present colonial
and racial pasts and in so doing recast emergent conversations on what
the historian Tera Hunter calls "the
long history of child-snatching."The event is free and open to the public.
American Indian adoptee and author Trace Hentz is a presenter, via Skype.
Her paper is:
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