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X-WR-CALNAME: Geography Colloquium Series: ‘Illegality’ and the Transfo
 rmation of Low-Wage Labor Regimes in the Context of Rural Gentrification 
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Geography for the Colloquium Series talk
  with Lise Nelson on ‘Illegality’ and the Transformation of Low-Wage L
 abor Regimes in the Context of Rural Gentrification.\n\nOver the last thre
 e decades\, domestic amenity or lifestyle migration across the United Stat
 es has accelerated processes of rural gentrification\, shifting landscapes
  of production to landscapes of consumption--from Jackson Hole\, Wyoming\,
  to Highlands\, North Carolina. This talk explores how employers recruit l
 ow-wage\, mostly undocumented Latine immigrants to work in gentrifying rur
 al communities historically “off the map” of immigrant settlement\, dr
 awing on qualitative fieldwork in Colorado and Georgia. I trace how\, over
  time\, employers transformed their business model to reach new levels of 
 profitability predicated on access to racially marked\, “illegal” work
 ers even as public\, commodified images of these places celebrated them as
  sites of luxury\, recreation\, and whiteness. I contribute to debates abo
 ut rural gentrification\, geographies of immigrant settlement\, and to the
  ways scholars theorize immigrant networks\, illegality\, and labor in the
  contemporary United States. \n\nLise Nelson is Professor in the School of
  Geography\, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona. She
  is author of Illegality and the Production of Affluence: Undocumented L
 abor and Gentrification in Rural America (2025—University of Californi
 a Press). She was a member of the geography faculty at the University of O
 regon between 2001-2013.
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LOCATION:Condon Hall\, 106
SUMMARY: Geography Colloquium Series: ‘Illegality’ and the Transformati
 on of Low-Wage Labor Regimes in the Context of Rural Gentrification 
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 s-illegality-and-the-transformation-of-low-wage-labor-gegimes-in-the-conte
 xt-of-rural-gentrification
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
CATEGORIES:Free
CATEGORIES:Diversity and Multiculturalism
CATEGORIES:LatinX/Hispanic
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