Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

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Immigration was a huge issue in our recent election, so huge that it might seem like unrestricted immigration is a recent phenomenon. In fact, migration is as old as human history; what’s new is the idea that governments can and should restrict people’s movements. For most of human history, governments have encouraged, not barred, migrants. Professor Hahamovitch will discuss common myths about immigration and the rise of the biggest myth of them all: the idea that migration can be stopped.

Cindy Hahamovitch is the B. Phinzy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. A historian of international and US labor migration, she is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945, and the tripleprize winning, No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor. She is past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association and of the Southern Labor Studies Association. In addition to writing books about human trafficking and Jim Crow South Florida, she is producing very short films on the history of Athens, Georgia, for 11th grade classrooms.

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