Donna Gabaccia - "The Freedom to Move. Immigrants and Natives 1776- present"
Donna Gabaccia - "The Freedom to Move. Immigrants and Natives 1776- present"
Augustana College
Hanson Science Building
Room 102
Saturday October 20
7 PM
Join us for the 23rd annual O. Fritiof Ander Lecture in Immigration History, presented by Dr. Donna Gabaccia, of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The topic of her lecture will be "The Freedom to Move. Immigrants and Natives 1776- present".
Dr. Gabaccia is one of the leading scholars in the field of American immigration history today, and has published numerous books and articles, some of the most notable being Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective (2012), What is Migration History? (2009), Italy's Many Diasporas (2000) and We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (1998).
Her lecture will focus on immigration policy and histories of groups that have been forced to move or not allowed to move, providing a different way of thinking about immigration policy and notions of liberty. Her talk deals with some of the fundamental aspects of immigration history.
The O. Fritiof Ander Lecture in Immigration History is presented annually by a prominent scholar in the field of immigration studies. It is named after Dr. O. Fritiof Ander, a leading immigration historian who taught history at Augustana 1930-1968.
Hanson Hall of Science is on 35th Street, south of 7th Avenue in Rock Island (#74 on this campus map www.augustana.edu/Documents/map_2010.pdf). Room 102 is at the south end of the 1st floor.
Please join us for what promises to be a most stimulating lecture!
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