Deporting Democracy: A Repression Boomerang Between the US and El Salvador

Using a recent deportation flight from the US to El Salvador as a starting place for analysis, Noelle Bridgen argues 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, she discusses how the emergence of that partner followed a long, predictable trajectory of US imperialism and global apartheid.

Part of the Migrations and the Americas / Baden-Württemberg Seminar lecture series.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰 July 24, 18:15

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