Office for Human Mobility: How North American policy collaborations could facilitate moving and staying in a post-NAFTA era
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Most conceptualizations of borders and migration center the perspective of states and are inadequate to understand, predict or facilitate how people work with and around policies. The intertwining of some aspects of North American economies with NAFTA, and later the USMCA prompted and yet were incapable of handling the massive displacements they generated. While it may be true the solution lies outside of trade deals, and even nation states, with the ethical response an elimination of borders, this talk will focus in the meantime on the potential for more creative and humanitarian responses within the existing policy frameworks, an anti-NAFTA within the existing tri-national policy environment. Centering lived experiences of those directly impacted by NAFTA will enable better, more grounded policy design, even while acknowledging that the existing national policy landscapes continue to generate and sustain structural inequalities and harm.
About Professor Gálvez:
Alyshia Gálvez is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She is professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College and of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.