The University of Miami’s Miami Institute for the Americas, in conjunction with the Department of Sociology, and the Cuban Heritage Collection, will present a panel discussion on Wednesday, March 30, on The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents, a book co-authored by research professor Alejandro Portes that examines the organizations immigrants create to protect themselves in their receiving nations, and how those organizations relate to developmental initiatives.

The discussion, which will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Cuban Heritage Collection Reading Room, will feature UM’s David Abraham, professor of law, Jorge Dominguez, the Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University, and Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul, director of the Miami Institute for the Americas and professor at the Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences.

UM sociology professor Jomills Henry Braddock will moderate the discussion, and Portes, the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle S. Beck Professor of Sociology (Emeritus) at Princeton University will provide commentary.

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