Refugees, Returnees, and Rebordering: How Border Communities Respond and Adapt to Mixed Migratory Flows
Interdisciplinary seminar on transborder studies
Presented by Olivia Ruiz Marrujo
Shift in U.S. policy toward refugees and immigrants during the Trump administration has created an emergency situation in cities along the US-Mexico border. In this session of the Seminar on Transborder Studies, Prof. Olivia Ruiz will talk about the exodus of Central American migrants and refugees to Tijuana, the response of citizens and institutions to the humanitarian emergency, and prospects of integration of immigrants to this transborder metropolis.
With commentary by Dr. Angela Arzubiaga.
Olivia T. Ruiz Marrujo is an anthropologist in the Department of Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Her most recent research focuses on deportation and forced family separation, child immigration, and the social representation of Mexico and Mexicans in the early 19th century United States.
Angela Arzubiaga is an associate professor in Justice Studies and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on justice issues related to the education of children of immigrants, sociocultural perspectives on family life and home-institution connections, and immigrant families’ adaptations.
Light refreshments provided. Please RSVP to ptc@asu.edu.