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Nina Siulc

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Rutgers University
Family Research Scholar, 2010-11

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Political and legal anthropologist Nina Siulc’s research focuses on the impact of U.S. deportation practices on children and families. As a 2010-11 Family Research Scholar, Siulc studied the impact of new deportation policies on families in the northeastern United States. She looked at both children whose parents have been deported and noncitizen children that have been removed from the U.S. and returned to uncertain future in their homeland.

Siulc recently joined the faculty at Rutgers as an affiliated professor in the Program in Criminal Justice, as well as an assistant professor of Anthropology. She is finishing her first book, Unwelcome Citizens, which describes the experiences of Dominican adults who came to the United States as young children and were later deported after being convicted of crimes. In addition to studying how people adjust to life in the Dominican Republic after many years abroad, the book explores what freedom means to people who have experienced migration, criminalization, incarceration and deportation or who have been subjected to extreme forms of state intervention in their lives. In her new research project, “Children of the Crimmigration Era,” Siulc will study how parental deportation impacts the socialization and identity formation of the citizen children who remain in the United States.

Siulc frequently translates her research to public engagement and policy, through ethnographic filmmaking and working as a consultant on a number of immigration legal cases.

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