IIR Colloquium: Dr. Kathleen Schwartzman
Following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas
Monday, March 3, 2014 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
Commerce Building, 3rd floor
Due to the inclement weather, this event is CANCELLED
In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that undocumented worker take jobs that Americans don't want to do is too simplistic. Schwartzman argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict.
Kathleen C. Schwartzman is a professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona School of Sociology.
This event is part of the Institute for Immigration Reserach [IIR] monthly Colloquium Series. IIR Colloquium Series brings together researchers, academics, and policy contributors to share their work related to immigration with GMU faculty, students, staff and the surrounding communities.
