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MCC Daily Tribune

International Education Week Lecture Today: The Political Economy of Leaving Home 1 pm (note new time)

This talk examines how the financial realities of outmigration from Central America to the United States reinforce return attempts after deportation. Because of the nature of mortgage payments, liens, and debt terms, deported out-migrants often find themselves with little recourse except to try to emigrate North again to find employment. This talk, therefore, examines how prevailing narratives of migration ignore or work around a fundamental economic reality--not one principally of poverty and underemployment but one rather of indebtedness stemming from the significant costs of transnational migration itself.

Our speaker, John Kennedy, is a PhD student at Cornell University where he studies migration and its narratives, broadly conceived. He is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and is currently at work on a project on the financial ecology of migration in Mexico and Central America; he is a first-generation Guatemalan American.

You can register during the event and will be given the zoom information.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlceuqrzgqGNXE7i9Qe18bhWETMbhT1bFU

Co-sponsored by AHPS, GEIS, and Cornell University's Einaudi Center for International Studies

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Christina Lee
Global Education & International Services
11/20/2020