Name: TH3.01 ‘Informal Networks at the Border: the Mexico/US Case’
Start: 2014-03-20T13:30:00-0500
End: 2014-03-20T14:50:00-0500

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TH3.01 ‘Informal Networks at the Border: the Mexico/US Case’

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Moderator: Jose Carlos G. Aguiar, Leiden University

Informality as a Resource: Cross-Border Trade and Non-Hegemonic Globalization'
José Carlos G. Aguiar, Leiden University

Conceptualizing Human Trafficking Along the US/Mexico Border
Jenny Clark, South Texas College

Inequalities and Global Flows in Mexico’s Northeastern Border: The Effects of Migration, Commerce, Hydrocarbons, and Transnational Organized Crime'
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, The University of Texas at Brownsville

Changes and Continuities in the Use of Networks for Undocumented Border Crossing in Northern Mexico
Juan Carlos Narváez Gutiérrez, Centro de Estudios Migratorios; Salvador Cobo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

US-Mexican Border Enforcement and Drug Trafficking Networks'
Michelle Keck, University of Texas at Brownsville

Understanding Learning in Participatory Budgeting: Identifying Dialectic Tensions + Resolutions using a Discourse Analysis Approach
Presenter: José W. Melendez, University of Illinois at Chicago

Presenters

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Associate Professor and Chair, The University of Texas at Brownsville

Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Associate Professor and Chair of the Government Department of the University of Texas at Brownsville. Her areas of expertise are Mexico-U.S. relations, border security, immigration, and organized crime. Her teaching fields include comparative politics... Read More →

Juan Carlos Narváez Gutiérrez

Centro de Estudios Migratorios

Michelle Keck

University of Texas at Brownsville

Jose W. Melendez

Postdoc in Teaching and Mentoring, University of Illinois, Chicago

José W. Meléndez received his doctorate from the Learning Sciences program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), with a co-discipline in Urban Planning and Policy. His research focuses on the interrelation between the environment, participants, and language and how each... Read More →

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