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Hull-House Theatre LABOR FILM SERIES presents:
Dying to Get In
Undocumented Immigration at the U.S./Mexico Border

An Award-Winning documentary followed by a moderated conversation and update on the case of Elvira Arellano with Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-Gonzalez.

Wednesday, August 29

5:30pm - Dinner and Film Screening
6:15 - Conversation

Jane Addams
Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall (south building, first floor)

800 S. Halsted

SEATING IS LIMITED
Reservations Recommended, call: 312.413.5353.

Like so many people, we at the Hull-House Museum are shocked, furious and ashamed by Elvira's deportation. Yet we are also uplifted by her courage to risk everything to stand up for what she believes in and to fight for the legalization of
millions of others in her situation.
Join the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Latin American and Latino Studies at UIC on August 29th at 5:30 pm to screen a short award- winning documentary about undocumented immigration, followed by a moderated conversation about the case of Elvira Arellano.

As the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and legalization of undocumented immigrants grows in breadth and depth, we feel it is of vital importance to foster public dialogue on the issues surrounding Elvira's case.

Elvira Arellano


Labor Film Series
Working Questions:

1). Do work roles reflect hierarches -like race, class, and gender- or do they create them?

2). How have we transformed from a "working society" into a consumer society?"  What kind of society do we want to be?

3). How do we understand the many different divisions of labor - intellectual or manual, blue collar or white collar, masculine or feminine in a socially just world?

 

 


 

 


 

 

“Dying to Get In: Undocumented Immigration at the U.S./Mexico Border” provides an intimate perspective of border crossing and the people who cross. The U.S./Mexican border, dubbed a "gauntlet of death" by documentarian Brett Tolley, is infiltrated first-hand in this gritty examination.  Along the U.S./Mexican border, since 1994, the number of deaths in the Southern Arizona desert has continued to increase until the summer of 2005 when it reached a record high. Many of these deaths occurred from dehydration. Insight into America's undocumented population shows that trade policies and economic sanctions have effectively forced people off of their own land. “Dying to Get In” was produced in Association with the Elon University Program for Ethnographic Studies and Community Studies. Awards: News Program Feature 2007 DV Awards, Most Socially Relevant Documentary 2006 Hollywood Film Festival, Finalist 2006 Angelus International Student Film Festival, Best Student Film 2006 Plymouth Film Festival, Official Selection 2006 Arpa International Film Festival.

Amalia Pallares is an Associate Professor of Latin American and
Latino Studies (LALS) and Political Science at UIC, and Nilda Flores-
González, is an Associate Professor of LALS and Sociology at UIC.

This event is ADA accessible. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations to attend this event, please inform us at the time of reservation.