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Marie-Laure Coubès – Migration Flows at the Mexican Borders: New Variations inside Old Patterns

Monday, April 22, 2019

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

The Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Mexican Perspective Lecture Series is sponsored by the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship, and co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Population Studies and Training Center, and the Department of Sociology.

Marie-Laure Coubès is a faculty member of the Population Studies Department at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, México. She received her PhD in demography from Paris Nanterre University. Her research focuses on employment and mobility in Mexico, particularly on the Mexico-US border. From 2010 to 2018 she coordinated the Migration Survey Project in Mexico’s northern and southern borders (EMIF Norte and EMIF Sur). Her most recent book is Población y Salud en el Nuevo Escenario Fronterizo del Norte de México [Population and Health in the New Border Scenario of Northern Mexico] coedited with E. Vargas and F. Uribe.