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CUNY FORUM Volume 7:1

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The latest Fall/Winter 2019-2020 special issue, guest edited by Stephen Lee and Elizabeth Hanna Rubio (University of California, Irvine), centers on the experiences of Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) and in doing so, contributes to a small, but growing body of literature within Asian American and U.S. immigration studies that explores what it means to be Asian American and living under the threat of immigration-related consequences such as deportation. The contributions in this volume of CUNY FORUM touch upon a variety of themes: Politics, Identity, and Social Movements.

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From ‘Women on the Loose’ to ‘Women in the Lead’: Indian Nurses Navigate the International Division of Nursing Labor

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How is nursing tied to histories of capitalist imperialism in India and the United States? How was it divided by gender, race, class, caste, sexuality, region and religion? How do we find the stories of marginalized women workers in the archives? What happens when we ask Indian nurses about their own life stories? A talk that traces the shifting positions of Indian nurses within an international division of nursing labor, and connects the colonization of the Indian subcontinent, the racial apartheid of the Jim and Jane Crow United States, the construction of Cold War neocolonialism, and the last major overhaul of U.S. immigration law over fifty years ago.

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Asian Americans and Immigrant Rights: Keep on DREAMing?

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This talk explores the close and constitutive relationship between Asian immigration and struggles for migrant justice. How can we understand the continuing impacts of the seminal role that Chinese and later Asian exclusion played in creating the infrastructure of immigration in the United States? What was the relationship between the emergence of an Asian American … Read more

2017-2018 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor

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Sujani K. Reddy is the 2017-2018 Thomas Tam Visiting Professor of Asian American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Reddy’s work focuses on histories of U.S. imperialism, immigration, and South Asian diaspora, as well as mass criminalization, immigrant rights, transnational feminism, and struggles for liberation. She is the author of Nursing & Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States (UNC Press, 2015) and co-editor of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013). Both books are also published in South Asia by Orient BlackSwan.

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