J.C. Salyer is Associate Professor of Practice in Anthropology and Human Rights at Barnard College and is also the staff attorney for the Arab-American Family Support Center, a community-based organization in Brooklyn, where he runs the organization’s immigration clinic.
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The Challenge of Trump’s Totalitarian Lawfulness
Malick, a pseudonym, is facing an immigration judge who is over 1,000 miles away and is presiding via WebEx video conference. Malick is being detained in GEO Gr... More
Postelection Revanchist Anti-Immigration Policy
Contestations around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) and the Sanctuary movement draw attention to two views of noncitizen members of s... More
Michel Foucault
We, along with many other scholars, are reading Lecture Eleven in Michel Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976 (2003... More