Guest: Professor Shirley Leyro
What does belonging mean to undocumented students in CUNY? How does the threat of deportation impact the emotional well-being of those students dreaming for a better life through higher education? Professor Shirley Leyro discusses her “CUNY belonging” project and the responsibility of CUNY Professors to these young people.

Episode Seven: The "War on Terror" and expansion of the security state

They Are Just Deportees is an innovative new podcast from the Social Anatomy of a Deportation Regime at John Jay College. Over the course of this podcast series Darializa Avila Chevalier and Nick Rodrigo will be interviewing scholars, journalists and activists researching, reporting on and resisting the structural violence of the US immigration enforcement system.