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An Artistic Response to U.S. Immigration Policy

Feb. 11, 2019

Adela C. Licona
Adela C. Licona

Article by Rob Enslin

Adela C. Licona, this year’s Syracuse Symposium keynote speaker, finds the euphemistically termed “tender-age facilities”—in reality, prisons for migrant babies and children—wholly reprehensible.

The University of Arizona (UA) professor, artist and activist believes the oft-repeated phrase masks extreme cruelty and violation. “I seek to unmask such violence, using socially engaged art to intervene and offer shared outrage,” she explains...

Read the full article at SU News.