We are pleased to invite you to the second lecture of the Western Hemisphere Lecture series in the 2025 Spring semester!
Xóchitl Bada
(University of Illinois Chicago)
Scaling Migrant Worker Rights. How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power
Thursday, June 5, 2025
at 5 p.m.
You can get 3 OZN points for participating in this event.
Where?
What?
In the United States, immigration policy has undergone substantial changes in recent years. These changes have been particularly evident since the beginning of President Donald Trump’ recently inaugurated second term. In her analysis, Professor Xóchitl Bada will address these changes by focusing on the experience of migrant workers.
Who?
Xóchitl Bada is a Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Forced Migration Review, Population, Space, and Place, Latino Studies, and Labor Studies Journal. She is the author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement (Rutgers University Press, 2014) and coauthor with Shannon Gleeson of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights (University of California Press, 2023). Her areas of specialization include migrant access to political and social rights, migrant organizing strategies, violence and displacement, and transnational labor advocacy mobilization in Mexico and the United States. She is co-editor of the books New Migration Patterns in the Americas. Challenges for the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2018), Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (The University of Texas Press, 2019), the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America, and The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration.
