Asad L. Asad, "Siting Surveillance: Place, Deportation Threat, and Institutional Involvement among U.S. Latinos," In conversation with Jayashri Srikantiah

Date
Thu April 21st 2022, 12:00 - 1:30pm PDT
Event Sponsor
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Asad L. Asad

"SITING SURVEILLANCE: Place, Deportation Threat, and Institutional Involvement among U.S. Latinos" with Asad L. Asad (Soc) in conversation with Jayashri Srikantiah (Stanford Law)

This talk examines whether and how the siting of surveillance—place-based variation in the monitoring and sanctioning of subordinated populations—is associated with individuals’ rates of institutional involvement across place. 

Research on surveillance and system avoidance predicts that individuals worried about state punishment are likely to avoid institutions that keep formal records. Although surveillance exists inside defined institutional spaces, it is also a feature of place given that the policies and practices governing surveillance are unevenly distributed across the United States.

Our empirical case is immigration enforcement, which targets Latinos through its racialized policing and exhibits subnational variation in its implementation.

Asad L. Asad is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. His scholarly interests encompass social stratification; race, ethnicity, and immigration; surveillance and social control; and health. Asad's current research agenda considers how institutions—particularly U.S. immigration law and policy—reproduce multiple forms of inequality.

Jayashri Srikantiah (Stanford Law School), Associate Dean of Clinical Education, Director of the Mills Legal Clinic, Professor of Law, Director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic

 

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