America’s Dirty War on Immigrant Children

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor Emerita and affiliated faculty member of BCSM, has co-authored an essay with Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco in the Los Angeles Review of Books. In the essay, they argue that “Our history is riddled with hidden tortures and violent separations of families... Today’s torture is the separation of children from parents.”

Visiting Scholars from Norway

ISSI is pleased to host four visiting scholars from Norway who will be here this spring and summer as part of the project, “Transnational Migration and Inequality: Implications for Health and Health Services.” The project is led by Seth Holmes, Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Heidi E. Fjeld, Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway, and funded by the Peder Sather Center, UCB.

• Heidi E. Fjeld, Dr. polit, Associate Professor, Section for Medical Anthropology and Medical History, Research group for Engaged Community Medicine, Institute of Health and Society (Helsam), University of Oslo

• Johan Fredrik Rye, Dr. polit, Professor, Migrations and Mobilities Research Group, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

• Vilde Fastvold Thorbjørnsen, PhD student, Section for Medical Anthropology and Medical History, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo

• Jakub Stachowski, PhD student, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)