J. C. Salyer

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

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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

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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

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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