Multicausal Migrations: The Environmental and Policy Disasters That Drive Migration From Central America to the United States
April 1, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Join the UIC Department of Latin American and Latino Studies for their Distinguished Lecture. Environmental disasters are policy disasters. They make evident inequality, violence, indebtedness, corruption, and the legacies of war and colonialism. They produce internal displacement and cross-border migration, and yet there are few tracks for admission for “climate refugees” in immigration regimes. Maria Cristina Garcia will discuss the environmental drivers of Central American migration since 1998 that are often obscured in immigration records, and the limited protections available to those displaced by disasters and accelerating climate change.
Co-sponsored by UIC Anthropocene Lab, Department of History, Institute for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation.
Date posted
Mar 12, 2025
Date updated
Mar 12, 2025