Mesoamerican ‘climate refugees’ on the rise
by Tomasz B. Falkowski, Ph.D. for the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Adolfo Chankin, an indigenous Maya farmer, manages the same land in Chiapas, Mexico as his father before […]
Category Archives: migration
Invisible no more: Lemus-Sanchez from Mexico to Ithaca, NY
On Februrary 15, Ithaca, NY resident Gloria Lemus-Sanchez, who was born in Mexico, shared her story with CUSLAR students. Lemus-Sanchez works at Cornell University, is enrolled the university’s employee degree […]
CUSLAR in the news: Solidarity among Dominican and Haitian peoples
The Ithaca, NY-based Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations was in the press (here, here and here) in the Dominican Republic last week after releasing a statement calling for support and […]
Migration: Moving people, moving capital
by Richard Gaunt Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Immigrant and migrant workers who depend on precarious wage labor are at the crux of global capitalism’s explosive crises. As members […]
Poverty: An obstacle to the exalted but unrealized United States
by Evelyn Sanchez Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) In our aging apartment on Long Island, during hot summer days, my sister and I would place our hands flat against […]
Indocumentada: ‘I thought the U.S. would solve my problems’
By Julissa Martinez Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) My mother migrated to the United States in 1994 at the age of twenty-eight de la hermosa isla de la República […]
Mexican DREAMers and the end of DACA: Between real threats and empty promises
by Maria de Lourdes Ramirez-Flores Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) More than 600,000 Mexican Dreamers who are DACA recipients are caught between a government that uses them as scapegoats and […]
