Pearson Lunch and Learn with Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Join us for our May Lunch and Learn!

About this Event

Join the Harris School of Public Policy MAIDP program and The Pearson Institute as we host Guadalupe Correa for a talk on Latin America, immigration, security and US policy issues.

About The Speaker

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Ph.D. in Political Science, The New School for Social Research) is Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are Mexico-US relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, and human trafficking. Her newest book is titled Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017; Spanish version: Planeta, 2018). She was recently the Principal Investigator of a research grant to study organized crime and trafficking in persons in Central America and along Mexico’s eastern migration routes, supported by the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Professor Correa-Cabrera is now working on a new book project that analyzes the main political, cultural, and ideological aspects of Mexican irregular immigration in the United States and US immigration policy entitled “Illegal Aliens”: The Human Problem of Mexican Undocumented Migration. She is also finalizing a book titled An Improvised War: Personal Stories and Political Perspectives of Mexico’s Security (co-authored with Dr. Tony Payan). At the same time, she is co-editing a volume titled North American Borders in Comparative Perspective: Re-Bordering Canada, The United States of America and Mexico in the 21st Century (in contract with University of Arizona Press, forthcoming Spring 2020).

• This event is free and open to UChicago students, faculty, staff and the public. If you cannot attend, please cancel your ticket order on Eventbrite so others may register.
• Registration is required and does not guarantee a seat. Lunch is provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Questions? Please contact our Assistant Director of Events at kdawkins@uchicago.edu