A lecture about Migrant Justice in the Age of Illegality by Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.
Dr. Alicia Schmidt Camacho is a Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale, and the Associate Head of Ezra Stiles College. Her scholarship concerns the femicide in Ciudad Juárez, transnational migration, border governance, and social movements in the Americas. She is the author of Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the Mexico–U.S. Borderlands (NYU Press, 2008). It discusses “transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward.” She is currently at work on a second book project entitled, The Carceral Border: Social Violence and Governmentality on the Frontiers of Our America. She chairs the board of Junta for Progressive Action, a community agency serving the Latina/o community of Fair Haven, and is a contributor to local and transnational projects for immigrant and human rights.
The event was organized by The Working Group in Latinx History with co-sponsorships of The History Department, NYU Steinhardt, and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
The hashtag for the event was #NYULatinxHistory
Event Recap
Dr. Alicia Schmidt Camacho visited us to speak about the caravans carrying asylum seekers to the U.S-Mexico border. She discussed the power displayed in the caravan’s ability to test limits of multiple nation-states, and that their collectivity and will teach us much about mobilization and organizing.
