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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum; Law School; and GBH Forum Network invite you to:
Join Suffolk Law Professor Ragini Shah in a conversation about her first book, Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities with Professor Shannon Gleeson, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
120 Tremont Street, Fifth Floor Commons, Boston, MA
6:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to everyone
In-person registration is not required.
Register here to attend via ZOOM.
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Theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics—the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime—entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico. She also highlights the alternative visions elaborated by migrant community organizations that seek to end the conditions that force migration. Recognizing that reform without recompense will never right an unjust migratory system, Shah concludes with a forceful call for the US and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction.
KJ
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