Grace Pena Delgado, History, UC Santa Cruz, "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking."

Event Date: 

Friday, February 21, 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Event Location: 

  • Room 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building

Professor Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) and co-author of Latino Immigrants in the United States (2011). Delgado participates in the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Project on Trafficking, Smuggling, and Illicit Migration in Historical and Gendered Perspective. She is also a collaborator with Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition working group on modern day slavery. Sponsored by the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies and the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.