Attached please find promotional flyers and colloquium paper for Alyshia Galvez's visit on Tuesday, 11/27.

QUEENS COLLEGE LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS

A FACULTY COLLOQUIUM WITH ALYSHIA GÁLVEZ

Director of the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies

Alien Mothers, Anchor Babies and the Invading Fetus:

Racialized Contradictions and the Birthweight Paradox

November 27, 11AM-12PM Rosenthal Library, 5th Fl. Conference Room #2

The reproductive futures of Latina immigrant mothers have always been subject to scrutiny and a source of anxiety for those who see them as "excessively" fertile or their offspring as changing the composition of the nation. While Mexican immigrant women achieve favorable birth outcomes in spite of facing many socioeconomic disadvantages, their efforts are not lauded but couched within racialized discourses about immigrant fertility that constrain the ways they imagine citizenship for their US-born children.

To RSVP and receive a copy of the colloquium paper, please contact rperez1@qc.cuny.edu.

Alyshia Gálvez is associate professor and director of the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies at Lehman College. She is a cultural anthropologist (PhD, NYU 2004) whose work focuses on the efforts by Mexican immigrants in New York City to achieve the rights of citizenship. Professor Gálvez is also the faculty advisor for the Lehman College D.R.E.A.M. Team.

Sponsored by QC Immigration Studies Working Group, QC Center for Teaching and Learning and the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies.

Ramona Lee Perez, PhD
Instructor in Anthropology
Assistant Director of Latin American & Latino Studies
Queens College, CUNY
65-30 Kissena Blvd., Powdermaker 314
Flushing, NY 11367-1597
rperez1@qc.cuny.edu