Dr. Amy Bhatt examines how family formation, marriage and reproduction allow temporary Indian migrants to make claims on the U.S. state even though they are classified as "non-immigrant" workers who are expected to return to their home country of India. Using ethnographic and online evidence, Dr. Bhatt examines how reproduction becomes a strategy for renegotiating the value of national citizenship in the face of neoliberal immigration and labor policies.

Sponsored by ARHU-DRIF, Asian American Studies Program, and Department of Women's Studies.

Date: Friday, Nov. 15, 2013
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: 2101 Woods Hall Conference Room