Migration | Public Scholarship and Engagement

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Humanizing Displacement During a Pandemic

by Robert McKee Irwin
January 19, 2022

Access, Equity & Justice

After a year-and-a-half of restrictions, Professor Robert Irwin and his team traveled to Tijuana to conduct their PIRI funded, community-engaged scholarship. The trip was invaluable and reaffirmed just how much this type of work is needed as this pandemic pervades.

Los Migrantes Hablan, los Migrantes Actúan, los Migrantes Saben

New Audiovisual Production on and by Migrants: Presented by the Global Migration Center

Puente México, Zona Centro, Tijuana (en viv

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Humanizing Deportation: Vulnerable Migrants in Tijuana

May 24, 2021

Access, Equity & Justice

Professors Robert McKee Irwin and Leticia Saucedo received a Public Impact Research Initiative grant to deepen ties with migrant communities in Tijuana through Irwin’s digital storytelling project, Humanizing Deportation, which has been active in Tijuana since its launch in 2016.

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Migration and Aesthetics Research Colloquium IV

Hosted by the UC Davis Global Migration Center

Our Migration History is a community-based inclusive participatory project which seeks to promote learning on current and past immigrant narratives at the secondary, undergraduate, an

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Girlhood in the Borderlands: Mexican Teens Caught in the Crossroads of Migration

Presented by: Quarter at Aggie Square

Lilia Soto, Associate Professor and Director of Latina/o Studies and American Studies at University of Wyoming, will be giving a guest lecture on her book, Girlhood in the Borderlands: Mexican Teens C

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Humanizing Deportation: The Faces of Contemporary Migration

October 30, 2020

Access, Equity & Justice

Robert Irwin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Leticia Saucedo, School of Law received grant funding for “Juntos Somos Más” a two-week public exhibition of the Humanizing Deportation project in Tijuana at the Border Line Crisis Center.

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Migration Research Center Faculty Symposium

Brief presentations of 15-20 minutes will reflect the multi-disciplinary and policy-oriented nature of the group and will be accessible to scholars of immigration across fields. They will touch economic, social, legal, and political themes linked to migration as well as historical and human-cultural ways of looking at this phenomenon.

Dec 6, 2019 @ 12:00pm - 5:00pm
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2203 SS&H (Andrews Conference Room)
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