Join us for an informal discussion about a scientific topic. Anyone is welcome, although seating may be limited. We will meet in the Gateway Film Center in the South Campus Gateway.

The Next Cafe:

Date: May 5, 2010, 6:30pm

Speaker: Jeffrey Cohen, Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University

Title: Myths and Mexican Migration: Modeling Mobility

Summary:
In this presentation I share insights to Mexican migration to the US with a focus on sending communities in the south of the country. I also introduce a model of human mobility that is founded in political ecology and the recognition of the processes that frame migration from the local to the global.

More about our speaker:
Jeffrey H. Cohen is an associate professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University. He received his PhD in 1994 in Anthropology from Indiana University. He is co-editor of the journal Migration Letters, an officer for the Society of Anthropological Sciences, the former president of the Society for Economic Anthropology. His research focuses on migration, economic development and food safety/nutrition. He has worked in Oaxaca, Mexico for many years with support from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society and the Fulbright program. He has also conducted research with Dominican migrants in the US with funding from the Russell Sage Foundation. His articles have appeared in American Anthropologist; International Migration; Population, Space and Place; and Gastronomica. His books include Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca and The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico by the University of Texas Press.


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