Historian Brianna Nofil will discuss her recent book, The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration. Nofil will discuss how the century-long economic, political, and ideological exchange between immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system birthed the nation’s vast immigration detention system.
Sponsored by the Robert E. Strippel Memorial Fund for Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights and the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies' Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Fund.
