Mano a Mano presents Posadas y Pastorelas This Sunday December 20 10AM-6PM! Mano a Mano celebrates the traditional Mexican Posadas y Pastorelas with delicious Mexican food, music and more! The event will be held at the Museum of the City of New York. Central Park North (110th St). All events are free with Museum admission.
The
Bildner
Center’s Mexico Studies Group
cordially invites you to the following event:
Mexico
Colloquium The
World of Mexican Migrants
Judy
Hellman
Professor,
York University (Canada)
Moderator:
Kathleen
Waldron University
Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
|
WHEN:
Friday,
February 19, 2010, 4:00 PM
WHERE:
The
Graduate Center, Rooms 9204/9205
365
Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street)
In her
earlier work, Mexican Lives, Judith Adler Hellman told the story of
fifteen rural and urban Mexicans and the strategies they invented to respond to
economic and political changes totally beyond their personal control. In The
World of Mexican Migrants, Hellman examines the lives of people for whom
neither rural nor urban Mexico now offers any means to secure economic survival.
Drawing on five years of in-depth interviews with migrants and the families they
leave behind, Hellman explores the reasons that families pool their scarce
resources to sponsor the border crossing of loved ones. She also looks at the
dense networks formed in New York by documented and undocumented Mexicans who
provide support to the new arrivals. This book is full of surprises and provides
an intimate picture very much at odds with the common notions that dominate the
migration debate in the United States about why Mexicans flow across the border
and whether they hope to remain.
About
the Speaker:
Judith
Adler Hellman holds a B.A from Cornell University, and an M. Phil and Ph.D. in
Politics from the London School of Economics. She is Professor of Political and
Social Science at York University, a Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin
America and the Caribbean, and has been editor of the Canadian Journal of Latin
America and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Mexico in Crisis (NY:
Holmes & Meier, 1978, 1983, 1988), Journeys Among Women: Feminism in Five
Italian Cities (NY: Oxford UP, 1987), Mexican Lives (NY: New Press
1994, 1999), and The World of Mexican Migrants (NY: New Press, 2008) as
well as articles on peasant movements, rural development, feminism, distance
education, human rights, international migration in the Americas and and Europe,
and social movements in Europe and Latin America. Her experience with fieldwork
began in 1967 in the north-central desert of Mexico.
This Sunday December 20 10AM-6PM!
