Migrant Political Membership in U.S. and Mexico

EMBEDDED CITIZENSHIPS: Contexts and Practices of Migrant Political Membership in the U.S. and Mexico

ROBERT COURTNEY SMITH
Associate Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies, and Public Affairs Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York   

Tuesday, February 6, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Building
Conference Room 115, First Floor
Reception to follow

Drawing on more than fifteen years of ethnographic research, Robert Smith will discuss how Mexican immigrants move back and forth between New York and their hometown in the state of Puebla, borrowing from and contributing to both communities as they forge new transnational identities and gender roles, new strategies of social mobility, and new brands of politics and egalitarianism.

Robert Courtney Smith is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Mexican New York: Transnational Worlds of New Immigrants (University of California Press, 2006), which won the 2006 W.I.Thomas and Florian Zaniecki Prize for the best book on migration from the International Migration  Section of the American Sociological Association. He is also the author of more than 30 articles and chapters on migration, education and immigration, and state-diaspora relations. His current research project explores the school, work and social lives of children of immigrants as they enter early adulthood.  He is also working as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice on a Voting Rights Act case involving Latinos in New York. He is the Vice President and Co-Founder of the Mexican Educational Foundation of New York, a 501(c)(3) organization that promotes educational achievement and community development among Mexicans in the New York area.   ______________________________________________________________________________

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