Migrant World-Making in the Central/North American Migration Corridor (event in Spanish)

People

912 Sproul Hall

 

Speakers: 

Round table discussion featuring:

  • Amarela Varela, Professor of Communication and Culture, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
  • Juan Antonio Del Monte, Professor of Cultural Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
  • María José Gutiérrez, Visiting Professor, Oxford College, Emory University
  • Lucas Ruppel, PhD Student of Spanish/Human Rights, University of California, Davis

Moderated by Robert Irwin, Deputy Director, Global Migration Center 

 

Abstract : 

This roundtable proposes a dialogue among researchers who are experienced in working on the ground with vulnerable migrants (deported migrants, migrants in transit, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants) and share feminist and horizontalist approaches to their scholarship. They will discuss the contemporary dynamics of migration in the context of the American hemisphere with the aim of understanding the knowledge acquired by migrants that compels them to ponder alternative forms of living. We’re interested in exploring the interventions that migrants seek to make in the social spaces that they occupy both along their migration routes and at their destinations, and in analyzing how traumatic circumstances of flight can turn into creative processes of world making. 

Event Category

Seminar