Oye Mi Gente: Las múltiples crisis de las comunidades latinas en EEUU
Por Tim Shenk Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Presentación en el foro virtual, “Oye Mi Gente: Foro Público de la Comunidad Latina de la Campaña de la Gente […]
Category Archives: migration
Easter reflections: “If they kill me, I’ll be resurrected in the people” – St. Oscar Romero
by Tim W. Shenk, CUSLAR Coordinator Easter is Resurrection, the triumph of the poor living under empire, the final victory of life over death. Today as we face multiple crises, […]
#ElPasoFirme: Border Network Brings Compassion in midst of Violence, Militarization
By Kimberly St Fleur “Mommy! Mommy! I see my dad!” Those were some of the words I heard while in El Paso, Texas volunteering at the seventh edition of the […]
Empire of Borders: On Security, Democracy and the Money Behind the Expanding Global Border System
An interview with Todd Miller Todd Miller, winner of the 2018 Izzy Award for investigative journalism, has written three books about borders. On October 22, he gave a talk at […]
Hugs Not Walls: The Border Issue of the CUSLAR Newsletter
By Tim W. Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Excerpted from the opening article of the issue, Making Sanctuary: Claiming and Defending our Human Rights. Access the full […]
Where is one to go? The Effects of Zero-Tolerance Policy on Displacement
by Rebekah Jones “In our countries, we were already dead,” Central American migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border told Mexican anthropology student Margarita Nuñez last year. “Here some of […]
On the border and in New York: Everybody’s got a right to live
Reflections prepared for a presentation at the forum titled, “Everybody’s Got a Right to Live,” hosted by the New York State Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral […]
Exodus and Central America
by Tim W. Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations More and more analysts, activists and migrants themselves are speaking in terms of an “exodus” northward out of Central America. […]
Asylum crisis on the southern border
by Kevin Maldonado Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations The U.S-Mexican border may have receded from our news feeds, but the asylum crisis there still rages on. On March 22 Cornell […]
Migrant Caravans: A View from Ground Level
by Margarita Núñez Chaim This article is based on a talk given by at Cornell University on March 22 by Margarita Núñez Chaim, a Ph.D. student at the Centro de […]
