Trade, Improvement and Survival: An Indigenous Approach to the Current Immigration “Crisis”

Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj

Part of the Fall 2020 Bay Area Latin America Forum

September 24, 2020

Trade, Improvement and Survival: An Indigenous Approach to the Current Immigration “Crisis”

Event Description

In this talk, Dr. Velásquez Nimatuj will examine the theme of migration from an indigenous perspective, within a larger context of racial oppression.

Speakers

Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj is a Maya-K’iche’ journalist and activist. She is an international spokeswoman for Indigenous communities in Central America and was the first Maya-K’iche’ woman to earn a doctorate in social anthropology in Guatemala. She was instrumental in making racial discrimination illegal in Guatemala and is featured in the film 500 Years.

Moderator: Beatriz Manz, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley; author of Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope