Crossing Paths: The Diversity in Mexico-US Migration

Date: 

Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 4:30pm

Location: 

Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Filiz Garip
Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Mexicans in the United States are a diverse population. But this diversity often gets lost in scholarly work and in the popular press. This lecture will explore the sources of the diversity in the Mexican migrant stream, which, for more than a century now, has remained stable in its presence but changed remarkably not only in its composition and origins in Mexico, but also in its destinations and settlement patterns in the United States.

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Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Instituto Cervantes en Harvard (Observatorio), David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Harvard Latina/o Student Alliance.