part of the GLOBAL MIGRATIONS FILM SERIES
The Pre-Screening discussion of "Immigrants for Sale" will be led by Dr. Esperanza Roncero, Professor of Spanish at Nazareth College.
The Post-Screening discussion and Q&A session will be conducted by Guest speaker Carly Fox.
In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
About our guest speaker:
Carly Fox is an advocate from the Worker Justice Center of New York. She works with and for immigrant farm workers who face oppression in so many ways: being forced to silence, and facing the constant threat and reality of deportation and incarceration, which lead to further risk to their fragile situation and that of their families.
Film synopsis:
The documentary "Immigrants for Sale" explores the detention of migrants and how this practice has become a multi-billion dollar industry, in which immigrants are sold to the highest bidder and traded like mere products. The Corrections Corporation of America, The Geo Group, and the Management and Training Corporation run over 200 facilities all over the nation. These facilities offer over 150,000 bed spaces and rake in a total profit of close to five billion dollars per year. These detention centers get paid for the number of people who are in the center per night, yet offer no incentive to speed up legal processes to allow the detainees to leave the facility.
"Every label is all about how they treat the cow, how local is the milk, the environmental impact, the small family farm." "There's never anything about labor, ever. In this whole wave of ethics, we've got this brainwashing that the workers don't matter." (Carly Fox)
This event is organized with the collaboration of the FLLD and the Department of Social Work.
For more information, please, contact Dr. Roncero at eroncer5@naz.edu or at 607 434 1962
ABOUT THE GLOBAL MIGRATIONS FILM SERIES
The Foreign Languages and Literatures Department brings to our community the opportunity to "see" the world from other cultures' perspectives - in their own terms, and in their own languages. We are witnessing the advance of a global economy that involves great opportunities as well as concomitant challenges at the geographic, social, economic, cultural and political levels.
Without a doubt, the global era's hallmark is the instantaneous movement of transnational capitals and consequent cultural trends via cyberspace. This trend is accompanied by humongous diasporas across the globe; thousands and thousands of human beings are displaced from their original territories each day in search of better opportunities for their families.
According to the United Nations, the number of international migrants - persons living in a country other than where they were born - reached 244 million in 2015 for the world as a whole, a 41% increase compared to 2000, according to new data presented by the United Nations on January 12th, 2016. This figure includes almost 20 million refugees.
In an attempt to contribute to this ongoing dialogue, the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department presents its first annual film series on "Global Migrations" with a focus on social justice.
Select movies and documentaries are tied to course offerings in FLLD that range from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The screenings aim to generate a cross-disciplinary dialogue with fields such as Anthropology, Art History, English, History, Law, Interfaith Studies, International Relations, Political Science, Religious Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Peace and Justice, and more.
Pre-screening and post-screening discussions are conducted by FLLD faculty, guest faculty members, and/or experts in the field of migration issues.
The series is free and open to the public.
mlebret5@naz.edu