ICE in the Heartland showcases a multifaceted project that gathers and disseminates the stories of communities impacted by immigration worksite raids with the aim of bringing underrepresented narratives to news media, classroom, and public discourse. This project comprises qualitative public health research conducted in impacted communities and visual arts generated from the research outcomes. Research teams of graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Michigan, led by Professor William Lopez, and the University of Iowa, led by Professor Nicole Novak, collaborated with a range of community members and organizers at sites of six large-scale immigration worksite raids that occurred in 2018 in Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. The researchers visited these sites, spoke to advocates, detainees, their families, and other community members. In conversation with the seventy-seven interviews, artists Dalia Harris and Carolina Jones-Ortiz generated ten images that comprise ICE in the Heartland. On display with the artworks are community member testimonies, analysis on the public health detriments to immigration worksite raids and deportation, insights to the artists’ methods, and the curricular materials used in public outreach programs.
Hosted and sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, U-M.
Hosted and sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, U-M.
| Building: | Lane Hall |
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| Event Type: | Exhibition |
| Tags: | Activism, advocacy, Art, Education, Exhibition, free, Human Rights, immigration, Inequality, institute for research on women and gender, irwg, public health, research, social inequality, social justice, Storytelling, Visual Arts |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Women's and Gender Studies Department |
| Upcoming Dates: |
Monday, October 6, 2025 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
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