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September 22: Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights,  

1:30 p.m. |  Haven Barlow Lecture Hall, Room 101, Lindquist Hall

Eladio Bobadilla is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a historian of modern U.S. history, with a focus on social movements, labor, race and ethnicity, radicalism and extremism, and migration. His first book, Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights, illuminates the history of debates over Mexican labor, the emergence of the immigrant rights activism, and the nativist movements that united Latinos with right-wing white Americans. A graduate of Weber State University’s BIS program (2012), he earned his PhD from Duke University (2019). Before joining the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, he was an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

 

 

 

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