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Oct. 20 Lecture to Focus on Immigration
Speaker will discuss immigrants who come to the United States from Latin America
Why do millions of Latin Americans decide to leave their native lands, cross a dangerous desert, and attempt to live in a country, the United States, that some say has increasingly “draconian” anti-immigrant laws?
A guest speaker coming to Gannon University will address that question and others related to the immigration debate that again is heating up.
The guest lecture, by Paola Gutierrez Galindo, will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20 in the Yehl Room of the University’s Waldron Campus Center, 124 West 7th St. It is free and open to the public.
The lecture is part of the Witness for Peace Mid-Atlantic Speaker Tour and is sponsored by the Gannon University History department. Through Oct. 25, Gutierrez Galindo is touring cities in the United States with Witness for Peace.
“People aren’t migrating (to the United States) because they want to, seeking pleasure,” she says. “There are economic roots, the causes of poverty, that force people to seek work in the U.S.”
During her visit to Gannon, Gutierrez Galindo will share stories of family members and neighbors from her southern Mexican community now living as immigrants in the United States. She will discuss the range of sometimes complex factors, including U.S. economic policies, that lead some immigrants to live in this country.
More about Paola Gutierrez Galindo
Gutierrez Galindo was born and raised in the community of San Lorenzo Victoria in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, Mexico. She dedicates most of her time to community organizing with the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (FIOB) as the district coordinator for her home area of Silacayoapan.
Through FIOB, Gutierrez Galindo works in local indigenous communities to coordinate community-based initiatives that respond to the causes and impacts of migration. While she has chosen to remain in her community, Gutierrez Galindo has been surrounded by high levels of migration her entire life. She estimates that 90 percent of her family has migrated, many now living along the U.S.-Mexican border and in California and New York.
Reflecting the patterns of migration common throughout her state, Gutierrez Galindo is the only member of her 25-person graduating class who has not migrated to the U.S.
A guest speaker coming to Gannon University will address that question and others related to the immigration debate that again is heating up.
The guest lecture, by Paola Gutierrez Galindo, will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20 in the Yehl Room of the University’s Waldron Campus Center, 124 West 7th St. It is free and open to the public.
The lecture is part of the Witness for Peace Mid-Atlantic Speaker Tour and is sponsored by the Gannon University History department. Through Oct. 25, Gutierrez Galindo is touring cities in the United States with Witness for Peace.
“People aren’t migrating (to the United States) because they want to, seeking pleasure,” she says. “There are economic roots, the causes of poverty, that force people to seek work in the U.S.”
During her visit to Gannon, Gutierrez Galindo will share stories of family members and neighbors from her southern Mexican community now living as immigrants in the United States. She will discuss the range of sometimes complex factors, including U.S. economic policies, that lead some immigrants to live in this country.
More about Paola Gutierrez Galindo
Gutierrez Galindo was born and raised in the community of San Lorenzo Victoria in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, Mexico. She dedicates most of her time to community organizing with the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (FIOB) as the district coordinator for her home area of Silacayoapan.
Through FIOB, Gutierrez Galindo works in local indigenous communities to coordinate community-based initiatives that respond to the causes and impacts of migration. While she has chosen to remain in her community, Gutierrez Galindo has been surrounded by high levels of migration her entire life. She estimates that 90 percent of her family has migrated, many now living along the U.S.-Mexican border and in California and New York.
Reflecting the patterns of migration common throughout her state, Gutierrez Galindo is the only member of her 25-person graduating class who has not migrated to the U.S.
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