Stories of Undocumented Workers from Mexico
Frans Schryer
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2015 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Frans Schryer is the author of They Never Come Back: A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico. He will discuss how the migrant experience has changed over the past two decades and its implications for immigration reform.The book traces the personal lives and careers of indigenous men and women on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, showing how NAFTA, migrant labor legislation, and more stringent border controls have all affected migrants' home communities, their relations with employers, their livelihoods, and their identity. Frans Schryer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Canada, where he taught in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.Frans Schryer has held part-time teaching posts at the Centre for Rural Development Studies of the Colegio de Postgraduados at Chapingo, Mexico, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Agrarian Studies at Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Farming in a Global Economy: A Case Study of Dutch Immigrant Farmers in Canada and The Rancheros of Pisaflores: The History of a Peasant Bourgeoisie in Twentieth-Century Mexico.
Cosponsored By:
- Anthropology
- Sociology
- U.S. Latina/o Studies Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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