Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration / Evening with Deepa Fernandes
Deepa Fernandes, an award winning journalist and radio host, will offer an update on the most recent developments around immigration policy and the way the immigration debate figures into this year's presidential election, as well as a discussion of book her book Targeted. This new publication is the result of four years of research collecting narratives from immigrants as well as from human rights groups, community organizers and lawyers who are challenging the Bush Administration's policies.
American Dream or American Nightmare?
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—-a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them. Fernandes—-herself an immigrant, is well acquainted with U.S. immigration procedure and takes the reader on a harrowing journey inside the new American immigrant experience and the creation of an "Industrial Immigration Complex".
Deepa Fernandes is co-director of the People’s Production House, a media justice organization based in New York City and Washington, D.C. Her award winning radio features have aired on the BBC World Service, and Public Radio International. Her writings have appeared in the Village Voice, In These Times, and the New York Amsterdam News.
For more information contact Erika Arthur at (413) 253-5432 or erika@foodforthoughtbooks.com.
