Related: Social and Cultural Inclusion
Challenges of migration shape our times. People facing lives of marginality mixed with violence leave homes for dangerous treks in search of new lives. They cross borders that governments seek to rule and regulate with limited success. Many aim to work, then return home. Others remain in el norte, often working without rights, sustaining transnational families and the U.S. economy. In time they build communities essential to the fabric of U.S. life.
The Crossing Borders series offered presentations by and conversations with leading analysts of the origins, processes, and outcomes of migrations between Mexico and the United States as they accelerated during the twentieth century and define key challenges of our times.
This event series was hosted by the Georgetown College Americas Forum and co-sponsored by the Georgetown Americas Institute.
February 2, 2022: Women Crossing Borders: Family Migrations, 1890-1965
Larisa Veloz, History, University of Texas El Paso
February 9, 2022: A Century of Mexican Guestworkers in U.S. Fields
Mireya Loza, History and American Studies, Georgetown University
February 16, 2022: The Big Push: Medical Miracles, Green Revolutions, and the Roots of Migrations
John Tutino, History and International Affairs, Georgetown University
February 28, 2022: Urban-Origin Migration: Industrial Monterrey in the U.S.-Mexico Migratory System
Rubén Hernández-León, Sociology and Latin American Studies, UCLA
March 28, 2022: Making Mexican Los Angeles—and America—in Boyle Heights
George Sánchez, History and Ethnic Studies, University of Southern California
April 4, 2022: Making Mexican Chicago: From Post-War Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
Mike Amezcua, History, Georgetown University
April 20, 2022: Generations Making Mexican America
Francisco Jiménez, Literature, Santa Clara University
Tomás Jiménez, Sociology, Stanford University
April 25, 2022: Carrying New York City Through Covid: Undocumented Deliverance
Martha Daniela Guerrero, Journalist/Historian
As New York City became the country’s COVID-19 pandemic epicenter in 2020, app-based couriers for companies like UberEats and DoorDash emerged as essential workers, bringing food to many during…
What does it mean to be a person of Mexican descent in the United States today? How has that meaning changed overtime? Drawing insights from Francisco Jiménez's memoirs and Tomás Jiménez's original…
This talk discussed how the Windy City became a Mexican metropolis in the second half of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, working-class Chicago neighborhoods like Pilsen and…
Recent mexican immigrants to Boyle Heights, in the eastside of Los Angeles, join a long list of newcomers that have populated that community since the late nineteenth century. The longer history of…
Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest metropolitan area, has long been a magnet for internal migration due to its economic prowess, but the city has also been intimately connected to cross-border flows…
Migrations from Central America and Mexico to the United States escalated through the second half of the twentieth century. The challenges that drove so many to leave rural communities and urban…
