Book Talk | Enduring Illegality: Angela S. García in Conversation with Asad L. Asad Moderated by Xóchitl Bada
Join the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice for a conversation celebrating the publication of Enduring Illegality: Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life by Angela S. García, associate professor at the Crown Family School.
What happens when undocumented status stretches across decades and becomes embedded in the life course? Drawing on longitudinal research with undocumented Mexican immigrants who came to the United States as young adults and entered middle age still waiting for a path to legalization, García traces how enduring illegality reshapes work, family, health, aging, and care across borders. The book reframes waiting as a form of immigration governance, showing how prolonged legal uncertainty structures immigrants’lives across decades.
García will be joined by Asad L. Asad, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University and author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life, for a conversation about how undocumented immigrants navigate institutions and the long reach of legal exclusion. Bringing their books into dialogue, García and Asad will consider how immigration governance operates through both time and institutional encounters.
The conversation will be moderated by Xóchitl Bada, Professor and Chair in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Book Talk: 4–5 p.m.
Reception: 5–5:30 p.m.
Xóchitl Bada is Professor and Chair in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement and coauthor of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power.
Angela S. García, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, with affiliations in Sociology and Comparative Human Development. Her award-winning first book is Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law.
Asad L. Asad is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. He is the author of the award-winning book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life.
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