Root Causes and Manufactured Crises: On the Ongoing Dispossession and Displacement of Central Americans
Speaker: Leisy J. Abrego
Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 6 PM
Address: Global Education Center Room 4003
Leisy J. Abrego is Professor in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in sociology, she is a law & society scholar who studies the intimate consequences of U.S. foreign and immigration policies for Central American migrants and Latinx families in the United States. Her book, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press, 2014), examines the well-being of Salvadoran immigrants and their families—both in the United States and in El Salvador—as these are shaped by immigration policies and gendered expectations.
