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, Feb. 2, at 2 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 Jan. 1. 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.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at January 30, 2006 03:34 PM