Join us for a free screening of the film “Los Eternos Indocumentados” by Jennifer Cárcamo, a Salvadoran scholar, filmmaker, and organizer, followed by a Q&A with her. The film is a documentary on Central American Refugees in the United States. This event is free and open to the public and will take place at Bregamos Theater, 491 Blatchley Ave, New Haven.
Jorge Perugorría
There is consensus that humanitarian actors should respond to the mental health and psychosocial needs of displaced populations through multisectoral action and coordination. Multisectoral programming may enable the integration of mental health and psychosocial support with services designed to address critical social and structural determinants of mental health including poverty, stigma, safety and security, and social connectedness and cohesion. In this presentation, Professor M.
Professor Yang-Yang Zhou will be presenting the research of her new book project ‘Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens’. How are migrants received by host countries and communities? A substantial body of scholarship on migrant reception focuses almost exclusively on majority White citizens in the Global North and their (negative) attitudes towards migrants from the Global South.
Using social media data for over 2 billion individuals, Professor Hsiang uses new techniques to study whether climate change is likely to contribute to global migration flows.
SESSION 3
Sustainable Development
March 3rd 2023 – 2 pm to 3.30 pm (ET)
Public policy challenges: territory, society and gender
Scholars:
Margarita Velázquez Gutiérrez,
Professor-Researcher, Center for Multidisciplinary and Regional Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Co-founder Gender, Society and Environment Research Network
Countries in Latin America have enjoyed periods of democratic revival and suffered from periods of democratic decline since their independence. Recent events in Peru and Brazil add to the many cases in which democracy was about to break, but it did not.
Spring Colloquium Lecture with Reinaldo Funes-Monzoto, visiting research scholar at Princeton University. Lunch will be provided.
This two-day workshop will enable a group of outstanding scholars in the emergent field of studies of Latin American science-fiction, fantasy, and horror to reflect on the current state of the field and to continue discussing some of the significant questions posed by these forms of storytelling
Maria Aguilar (Yale Latin American Studies) will present as part of CLAIS Colloquium Series. Join us for coffee and pastries and a great conversation!
