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STATUS
​2019

Original Base Button Design by Kimberly Coombs
STATUS is a participatory artwork exploring the concept of citizenship in the United States, specifically the different types of citizenship status labels that Immigrants in the U.S. live with, defining their lives and effecting all their daily interactions in society. The title "Status" reflects several layers of experience, social and legal. The dictionary defines status as: 

                          1: position or rank in relation to others. Example = the status of a father
                          2: relative rank in a hierarchy of prestige, especially high prestige.
                          3: the condition of a person or thing in the eyes of the law.

                          4: state or condition with respect to circumstances. Example = the status of the 
                               negotiations


Each of these definitions relate how an immigrant is viewed
by their family, by different communities, by society, and by the law. Immigrants are viewed by many in our society as the lowest rung in the social hierarchy. In the eyes of the law, the immigrant's status is clear-cut, either legal or illegal. 

​This artwork asks the gallery visitors to randomly choose and adopt a status for the duration of their gallery visit, by choosing an envelope and wearing the included button, which advertises their status to the other gallery visitors. In this piece, the participants become the interactive art event, being labeled with an identity status that stigmatizes. 

It is my hope and goal that this small action, coupled with the information in the selected STATUS envelope and here on the web page, will provide the participant with an opportunity to put themselves in another person's shoes, and think about the process one goes through to achieve (or not achieve) such a status
. A secondary goal of this art action is to counteract the rampant misinformation and ignorance present in today's society surrounding immigration and immigrants present in the U.S. 

STATUS Terms Used in this Art Action: 

  • Approved: Naturalized legal citizens w/ all rights and responsibilities
 
  • Legal: Permanent Legal residents but not a Legal Citizen
 
  • Temporary: Nonimmigrant; Legal temporary residents: student, worker, diplomat, dependents...
 
  • Illegal: Individuals in this country without documents to be here legally
 
  • Deported: Illegal residents who have been deported to country of origin or other appropriate                                   country
 
  • Refugee: A person outside their country of nationality who is unable/unwilling to return                                            to their country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution based                              on the person's  race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or                                political opinion. 
 
  • Asylum: An Asylee is a foreign national in the United States or a port of entry who is unable                                  or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality, or to seek the protection                                      because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution or the                                      fear thereof must be based on religion, nationality, membership in a particular social                                group, or political opinion. 


Information in each letter is quoted from the guidelines on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services website, which is run by the Department of Homeland Security. https://www.uscis.gov/tools/how-do-i-guides 

The Statistics for Immigrant populations in the U.S. come from the 2019 Pew Research Center report on the data from 2017, the most recent collated data.  ​https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/  

Information on Refugees and the process to achieve that status can be found at:  https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/refugees-asylees https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2017/table13
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum 
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/05/for-the-first-time-u-s-resettles-fewer-refugees-than-the-rest-of-the-world/

Refugees resettled in 2017: In FY 2017 53,716 refugees were resettled in the United States. https://www.wrapsnet.org/archives 

Refugees resettled in 2018: In FY 2018 (October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018), a total of 22,491 refugees were resettled in the United States, under a refugee ceiling of 45,000. https://cis.org/Rush/Refugee-Resettlement-Admissions-FY 2018  https://www.wrapsnet.org/archives  

Refugees admitted by region from 1975 through 2019: Excel file https://www.wrapsnet.org/s/Refugee-Admissions-Report-FY2019_06_30-7-5-19.xls 
Website Link: https://www.wrapsnet.org/admissions-and-arrivals

Asylum Statistics: 2012-2016: In 2016 8,726 asylum applicants were granted asylum  https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2018-03/Asylum_2012%2B2016.pdf 

Department of Homeland Security 2017 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2017?collection=immigration-data-and-statistics 

Center for Immigration Studies - Immigration Data Portal: https://cis.org/Immigration-Statistics-Data-Portal 
Letter for Naturalized Immigrants living in the states. They are legal citizens. 45% of all foreign-born population in the US. 20.7 million people Statistics from 2017: Pew ResearchCenter
Letter for Permanent Legal Immigrants. 27% of all foreign-born population in the US 12.3 million people Statistics from 2017: Pew ResearchCenter
Letter for Legal Temporary Immigrants living in the states. They include temporary workers, students, and such. 5% of all foreign-born population in the US. 2.2 million people Statistics from 2017: Pew ResearchCenter
Letter for undocumented Immigrants living in the states illegally but NOT caught or deported. 15% of all foreign-born population in the US. 23% of all foreign-born population in the US are Unauthorized, including deported and "Illegal" 10, 205,000 people Statistics from 2017: Pew ResearchCenter
Letter for undocumented Immigrants who are deported. 35% of Unauthorized Immigrants 8% of all foreign-born population in the US 295,000 people Statistics from 2017: Pew ResearchCenter
Letter for Refugees There were 120,356 in 2017 Statistics from 2017: Department of Homeland Security https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2017/table6
Letter for Asylees There were 25,647 in 2017 Statistics from 2017: Department of Homeland Security https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2017/table6
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    • Exhibitions >
      • Mott Art Faculty Exhibition -GFAC
      • STATUS 2019
      • Flint City Artists 2019
      • Flint: More than Just Water, and Exhibition
      • ArtPATH Lansing 2018
      • Lifeblood
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Nomadic Boarderlands
      • Second Skin
      • All They Survey
      • Liminal
      • Touching Life
      • intervals…interfaces…interstices
    • Suffer the little children series >
      • Suffer the little children, COVID-19 Portrait Series
      • Suffer the little children... War/Refugee Portrait Series
      • Suffer the little children...(Installations)
      • Postcards from the forgotten edge of forever
    • Selected Artwork >
      • Of Umbrellas & Votes
    • In Process >
      • Suffer the Little Children... In Process
      • SAY HER/HIS/THEIR NAME
  • Publications
    • Books >
      • Flint Water Crisis
      • Lost In Media
      • Dissertation
    • Articles
    • Presentations >
      • Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment
      • The Water Within LAND Conference 2-7-19
      • Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project.
      • Seek & Find: Connections
      • Contemporary Artists as Stewardship
      • Act! Do Something
      • Wangechi Mutu
      • Ask me Why I'm RAD
      • Exploring ‘My Place(s) in this World’
      • Watching a Revolution
    • Speaking Engagements >
      • Multiple Identities, Two Cultures, One Voice: The Art & Activism of Contemporary Afro-Latina & Afro-Latinx-Q Artists
      • Don't tell me what to do: Creative Careers Vol. 1
      • The Aesthetic Lens: Engaging Sociopolitical Injustice Through Art
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Social Justice Speaker in Residence
    • Press >
      • Student Project
      • Donor Mural
    • CV
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