Film Screening and Discussion: Deported

Film Screening and Discussion: Deported

College of Arts and Humanities | French | Italian | Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Spanish and Portuguese Thursday, October 6, 2022 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm St. Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room

DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of men in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America. Since 1996, the United States has implemented a policy of repatriation of all foreign residents who have been convicted of crimes. Every two weeks, about 50 Haitian nationals are deported from the United States; 40 percent are convicted legal residents who completed their jail sentence in America. Through the portraits and interviews of four deportees in Haiti and their families in North America, DEPORTED presents the tragedy of broken lives, forced separation from American children and spouses, alienation and stigmatization endured in a country they don't know and don't understand.

(free and open to the public)

4:30PM-6PM Film Screening

6:00-7:00 pm Q&A Roundtable with Professors 

• Cécile Accilien (Kennesaw State),
• Valérie Orlando (UMD FREN) 
• PHD student Ligia Neryanna Gonzalez (UMD SPAP)

Sponsored by:

The Department of French & Italian, The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center of UMD, in conjunction with the Haitian Studies Annual Conference, DC, Oct. 7-9, 2022, Howard University.