BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260303T155145EST-4833NEiSuf@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260303T205145Z DESCRIPTION: \n\nProfessor Ulla D. Berg\n\nTitle: Beyond cruelty: agency\, personhood and relationality in detention & deportation research\n\nAbstra ct: Public and scholarly attention to detention and deportation from the U nited States has for good reasons been dominated by narratives of brutalit y and state violence. While such accounts are vital\, they often leave und erexamined what deportation looks like once migrants subjected to deportat ion move beyond the gaze of spectating publics. Drawing on anthropological ethnographic fieldwork conducted intermittently between 2015 and 2022 wit h deported migrants and their families in Kichwa-speaking communities of C añar in southern Ecuador and in urban neighborhoods of Lima and the port d istrict of Callao\, Peru\, this talk examines deportation as a lived and r elational social process.\n\nUsing a transnational analytic framework\, I explore how deported migrants\, their families\, and communities navigate the aftermath of deportation and actively work to reconstitute lives\, rel ationships\, and personhood across borders. I show that migrants’ capaciti es to make life after deportation are shaped not only by family and commun ity contexts of reception\, but also by gender\, life course stage\, kinsh ip and support networks\, and prior migration trajectories. Rather than po sitioning deportation solely as a moment of rupture\, this analysis reveal s how deportation unfolds within families and communities whose social rel ations\, gender roles\, and moral expectations are already profoundly tran snationalized by migration. Attending to deportees’ agency and relational embeddedness\, the talk argues for an anthropological approach to detentio n and deportation that moves beyond the shock of cruelty to illuminate how power\, personhood\, and belonging are negotiated in everyday life after removal.\n\nBio: Professor Ulla D. Berg is an Associate Professor at the D epartment of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Anthropolo gy and former Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Rutgers (2015-2021). As a sociocultural and visual anthropologist specializing in Latin America and in Latino communities in the U.S.\, Prof. Berg's resear ch focuses on historical and contemporary processes and experiences of mig ration and mobility within Latin America and between this region and the U nited States. Her first book\, Mobile Selves: Race\, Migration\, and Belon ging in Peru and the U.S.\, examined how transnational communicative pract ices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and sociality acro ss multiple borders among racialized global labor migrants. She has also e dited several edited volumes including El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y Formaciones Diaspóricas en la Migración Peruana (with Karsten Paerregaard )\, Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas (with Robyn Rodriguez)\, Migración (with Irére Ceja and Soledad Alvarez Velasco)\, Latinas/os in N ew Jersey: Histories\, Communities\, and Cultures (with Aldo Lauria Santia go)\, and Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Immigration Dete ntion in New Jersey and the United States (with Carolina Sánchez Boe). Her book\, Figures of Deportation\, is forthcoming with Duke University Press .\n DTSTART:20260312T163000Z DTEND:20260312T180000Z LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Beyond cruelty: agency\, personhood and relationality in detention & deportation research URL:/miam/channels/event/beyond-cruelty-agency-personh ood-and-relationality-detention-deportation-research-371537 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR