Mapping Global Chicago: Venezuelans in the Crosshairs

Undergraduate / Graduate

Mapping Global Chicago is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research lab where students take the lead in order to brainstorm, design, and execute research projects on what makes Chicago a "global city" here in Chicago. This year's lab will focus on Chicago's growing Venezuelan community. Little more than three years after Texas governor Greg Abbott started busing asylum seekers to sanctuary cities such as Chicago, Venezuelans find themselves once again at the unenviable intersection of some of some of the most aggressive US policies, from ICE raids to the US overthrow of the Venezuelan government. With a choice of methods from across history, law, and the social sciences, students will examine the past and present of that community.