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Wednesday
21
March

The History and Legacy of the Mexican Guest Worker Program in the United States, 1942-1964

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Professor of History and Transborder Studies, Arizona State University

Professor Garcia has also taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the University of Oregon, and Brown University. His book, A World of Its Own:  Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2001) was named co-winner for the best book in oral history by the Oral History Association in 2003.  His current book project, A Moveable Feast:  César Chávez and The United Farm Workers’ Grape Boycott, to be published by the University of California Press,explores the formation of the most successful consumer boycott in US history and the grassroots activists and union leaders who created it.  

This seminar co-organised by the Programme for the Study of Global Migration and the Department of International History

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Room 342, 3rd floor, Siite Voie-Creuse, 16 Voie Creuse
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