BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250731T013034EDT-0488UUnMo0@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250731T053034Z DESCRIPTION:\n Technology and migration in global processes have created the opportunities for imagining social life. A homeland futurity encompasses the critical analysis of the contemporary world and possibilities in a fut ure\, with a particular emphasis on such imaginings as determined by natio n-states. Current US rhetorical strategies of imagining a future of their homeland have propagated ‘discourses of emergency’ which are part of a ‘ri sk management program designed to extract profit from projections of an ev er-susceptible border.’ This presentation will grapple with homeland futur ity in anti-trafficking discourse and practice. Fukushima examines multipl e sites –policies\, campaigns\, media\, qualitative data\, and websites–to trace how homeland futurities emerge in US anti-trafficking efforts. Fuku shima’s presentation illuminates how migrant laborers are impacted by a di scourse of threat and containment regarding the border. However\, migrant laborers and collaborators are innovating to enact migrant futures. Theref ore\, this presentation illustrates through the example of Contratados.org how technology in the anti-trafficking movement may facilitate opportunit ies of future visioning by migrant laborers beyond a homeland futurity\, t o enact a migrant futurity.\n\nAbout the author\n\nDr. Annie Isabel Fukush ima is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Division in the School fo r Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. She is aut hor of Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S. (Stanfo rd University Press\, 2019). Dr. Fukushima’s research scholarship covers i ssues of migration\, violence\, race\, gender\, and witnessing\, where her scholarly works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in p eer-reviewed anthologies: Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Rethinking the P roblem\, Envisioning New Solutions (2014)\, Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies\, Special Issue on Transnational Feminisms (2015)\, Documenting Ge ndered Violence (2015)\, Feminist Formations: Special Issue\, Mobilizing V ulnerability: New Directions in Feminist Studies & Human Rights (2016)\, G ender: War (2017)\, VOCI: Human Sciences Semi-Annual (2018)\, Biography (2 019)\, The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises\, Violations\, & Asian Ameri can Critique (2019)\, Journal of Human Rights & Social Work (2020)\, and J ournal of Human Rights Practice (accepted 2019\, forthcoming 2020). Dr. Fu kushima is currently leading up a project on Visualizing Gender-Based Viol ence funded by the University of Utah’s Vice President of Research office seeded grants (2020) and a Global Learnings Across Difference Grantee (201 9 – Present). Her expertise on immigration\, violence\, and human traffick ing is recognized across the continental US where she has served as an exp ert witness on human trafficking\, immigration\, and violence for a range of courts (immigration\, civil\, and criminal)\, in California\, Colorado\ , Utah\, and Washington\, United States. Dr. Fukushima values praxis\, hav ing implemented community-based research projects funded by the San Franci sco’s Department on the Status of Women (2018)\, the Salt Lake City’s Mayo r’s office (2018)\, to assess the needs of survivors of violence. Dr. Fuku shima is also the co-editor and co-founder of the Institute of (Im)Possibl e Subjects and the web-platform migratorytimes.net.\n DTSTART:20200311T190000Z DTEND:20200311T210000Z LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Peel 3487\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W7\, 3487 rue Peel SUMMARY:'Witnessing Migrant Futurities\,' a talk by Annie Fukushima\, Unive rsity of Utah URL:/igsf/channels/event/witnessing-migrant-futurities -talk-annie-fukushima-university-utah-303476 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR