Join us for the last event in our Speaker Series on Migration, Racialization, and Inequality, featuring Laura Madokoro. She will present her talk, “‘Otherness’ and the Politics of Sanctuary: Exploring the History of Refuge Over the Long Twentieth Century.”
This event will be held in a hybrid format. Lunch will be served at 11:45 AM in Dodson Room. The lecture will start at 12:15 PM and wrap up at 1:45 PM.
For in-person attendance, please register by February 28, 2025. Please arrive on time (11:45 AM) to ensure your spot.
Abstract
In recent months, the simmering anti-immigrant discourse in North America has become more pronounced. Central to this discourse has been profound othering, scaffolded by words such as “undocumented,” “illegal,” and “criminal aliens.” The ease with which this language has gained traction serves as an invitation to consider the ways in which understandings of the relationship between migration, race, and refuge have been reformulated in recent years. Drawing from her new book, Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City (MQUP, 2024), Dr. Laura Madokoro offers a timely exploration of the politics of otherness as seen in the search, offer, and refusal of sanctuary over the long twentieth-century.
About Laura Madokoro
Laura Madokoro is a historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton, located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Nation. She is a proud UBC alumnus and the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard, 2016) and Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City (MQUP, 2024) as well as numerous articles on the history of race, migration, and humanitarianism. She is a member of the editorial collectives for Active History and Refugee History and co-director of the journal Histoire Sociale / Social History.
