Migrants, Migrations, and Border Challenges
The Georgetown University Americas Forum, with the Americas Institute, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Institute for the Study of International Migration Presents: Mexico, Mexicans, and the United States: Inseparable Challenges. Approaching sequential national elections, Mexico in June, the U.S. in November, the Americas Forum explores key bi-national questions with leading scholars and journalists.
Panelists:
Ana Raquel Minian, Professor of History, Stanford University. Originally from Mexico, Minian is author of “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard 2018) and “In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States” (Viking 2024).
Martha Guerrero. Originally from Mexico, she earned a BSFS in Culture and Politics at Georgetown in 2019, an MS in Journalism at Columbia in 2021. She writes regularly for the bilingual Mexican news site, Informe Confidencial, where she reported on undocumented house cleaners and delivery workers carrying NYC through times of COVID. She is now in the History Ph.D. program at Yale.
Katharine Donato, Herzberg Professor of International Migration and Faculty Chair in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Long a leading scholar of global migration and related policy challenges, among many works, she has authored “Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age” (with Donna Gabaccia, Russell Sage, 2015) and “Refugees, Migration, and Global Governance: Negotiating Global the Compacts” (with Elizabeth Ferris, Routledge, 2019).
Moderator: John Tutino, Professor of History and International Affairs, Director of the Americas Forum at Georgetown. Among many works, he is author of “The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000” (Princeton 2018) and editor of “Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States” (Texas 2012).