Book Launch: Bordering on Indifference

Join us for the online book launch of Irene I. Vega’s Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality. The author offers an original, detailed analysis of the rationales that shape how U.S. immigration agents understand and carry out their professional responsibilities. Drawing on interviews with ninety immigration agents—Border Patrol Agents and ICE Deportation Officers, most of whom are Mexican Americans from the region around the border—Vega shows that indifference is the bureaucratic resource that allows agents to look away from the most morally ambiguous aspects of their work. 

The author will present her book, followed by a discussion with the moderator, Ibrahim Ince, and then a Q&A session with the audience.