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Alarcon

Discussing The Deportation of Innocence

Thu Sep 27, 2018
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Rafael G. Alarcon is a senior professor at the research institute at Tijuana, Mexico, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. He has published numerous articles and books, most recently for the University of California Press, Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States (2016). He also co-authored the classic work on Mexican migration to California, Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico (UC Press, 1987). He has been a visiting professor at UC San Diego, UCLA, University of Valencia, University of Paris and Columbia University. He is currently conducting research on deported immigrants and their families, which will inform this public lecture. He will screen and discuss the documentary The Deportation of Innocence directed by Francisco Alarcon who won the 2017 Emerging Directors Prize at the Global Migration Film Festival in Geneva. The film examines the experiences in the United States of immigrant families that have been separated by deportation.