This event forms part of a quarterly works-in-progress series, Dangerous Subjects, hosted by Latin American & Caribbean Studies, which invites fruitful collaboration and feedback from students and faculty across campus.
In this work-in-progress, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez investigates the complexity and opacity of immigration policy and bureaucracy as game-like structures. Llamas-Rodriguez analyzes The Green Card Game, a browser-based game that stimulates the avenues available to achieve permanent residence status in the United States, to argue against the reactionary talking point that it is easy or simple for potential migrants to "immigrate the right way."
Through a detailed examination of this case study, Llamas-Rodriguez explores what it means to model bureaucracy as a game when this bureaucracy is already designed as a set of challenges impossible to solve. Comment will be provided by Lupe Flores (Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies, UW).
Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, so we kindly request that participants RSVP in advance to vfreije@uw.edu.