Dear RSF:
Please join us next Tuesday, June 3rd at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Caitlin Dickerson entitled “Deported: The Hidden Toll of American Expulsion.”
Dickerson is an immigration reporter at The Atlantic, where she has been on staff since 2020. Her 2022 cover story on the 1st Trump administration’s deportation policy was the longest story published in that outlet, at 30,000 words.
She held previous positions as a national immigration correspondent at the New York Times (2016-2020), where she also guest hosted for the podcast The Daily and as an investigative reporter (2014-2016) and producer (2011-2014) at NPR News. She holds a BA in International Studies and a minor in Spanish from California State University Long Beach. Among her many awards, Dickerson has a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2023).
At RSF Dickerson is completing a book which examines the impacts of deportation from the United States, a process that has upended the lives of millions of immigrants and their families and created a permanent underclass of workers living in fear. Dickerson is documenting our reliance on these workers, showing that this quietly lowers the cost of goods and services in the U.S. economy, an uneasy bargain supported by a multi-billion dollar industry in the service of enforcing deportation or capitalizing on these workers.