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Migrations and the Americas / Baden-Württemberg Seminar Deporting Democracy: A Repression Boomerang Between the US and El Salvador

  • Thursday, 24. July 2025, 18:15
  • HCA Atrium
    • Noelle Bridgen, Marquette University

Using a recent deportation flight from the US to El Salvador as a starting place for analysis, I argue that the emergence of a powerful, complicit authoritarian partner in El Salvador erodes US democracy at home. Building on a decolonial literature on boomerang effects and research on transnational policing and borders, I discuss how the emergence of that partner followed a long, predictable trajectory of US imperialism and global apartheid.

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    HCA Atrium

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    Talk

All Dates of the Event 'Migrations and the Americas'

Migration movements turn out to be a particular global challenge of the twenty-first century in many regions of the world. The HCA addresses this topic together with the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies and the Institute of Geography with the lecture series “Migration and the Americas,” with a special focus on the United States and Latin America.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yaatsil Guevara GonzálezProf. Dr. Ulrike Gerhard

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