September 25: Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities

Professor Shah's book Constructed Movements examines migration from the perspective of Mexican migrant communities including migrants themselves, their family members and community organizers. These perspectives, gathered over five years, and in four diverse geographic areas of Mexico, form the basis of the book's key insight that migration is part of a larger cycle of colonial extraction from marginalized Mexican communities to benefit Mexican and U.S. elites. The book also profiles community resistance to the extractive cycle of migration and outlines possible ways that U.S. policies could be shifted to recognize and reverse migration as extraction and support the abolition democracy work being done by Mexican migrant communities.
Join us as we welcome Professor Shah in conversation with Fordham University School of Law's Professor Gordon.
Title:
Book Talk: 

Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities

Date/Time:
Thursday, September 25, 2025
5:30 - 6:00 p.m. ET | check-in
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. ET | program
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 Webinar and in-person at 150 West 62nd Street, Room 7-119, New York NY 10023
Speakers:

• Ragini Shah Author: Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic, Suffolk University Law School
• Jennifer Gordon (moderator) John D. Feerick Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

By:
Fordham Law School
Credit:
CLE credits are approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York and New Jersey State CLE Boards for a maximum of 1.5 transitional and nontransitional (1.0 diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias and 0.5 professional practice) credits. In many other jurisdictions, you may be able to self-apply for credit.

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