
The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
Kwent2@unm.edu
January 30, 2006
New Director of UNM's Southwest Hispanic Research Institute to Talk on Mexican- U.S. Relations
Dr. Manuel Garcia y Griego, the new director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute and associate professor of history at UNM, will speak on Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. The topic of his speech will be “Beating Around the Bush: Mexican – U.S. Relations and Immigration Reform.”
Garcia y Griego has written or edited a number of books and articles on migration, U.S. Mexican relations and public policy. His most recent research has been in the area of assimilation of immigrants in north Texas and the political priorities of Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American leaders.
Garcia y Griego became director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute at UNM on January 1 st . The Institute has 38 affiliated faculty members and promotes multidisciplinary research.
The talk is sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute and the University Libraries Chicano/Hispano/Latino Program.
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