Displacement & Mexico: Internal, External, Past, Present and Future
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 12pm in Foster 103 [1130 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637]

Speakers
Mauricio Tenorio [Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago]
Susan Gzesh[Director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago]

Abstract
Mauricio Tenorio: "Displacement and economic development seem to have acquired an unprecedented pace, especially in the case of such apparently "fixed" places and cultures, the U.S. and Mexico. A brief look to the history of both countries, however, would show that such "places" and "cultures" have never been that fixed, and thus current economic displacement ought to be understood in radically different fashion, with important political and legal consequences."

Susan Gzesh will speak on on Mexican emigration to the U.S. as a type of "forced migration" based on human rights violations within Mexico.


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