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Speakers: Abby Córdova, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Faculty Fellow of the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Bermeo, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration, Duke University; David Scott FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego
Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Join our panel as we focus on the recent surge in, and debates over, migration and asylum seekers at the southern US border.
Abby Córdova is a tenured associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and concurrent faculty in the Department of Political Science. She is a co-Principal Investigator of the Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab (V-TJLab), and a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Her research on the intersections between criminal violence, militarization, gender-based violence and their consequences for international migration in the context of Central America has been recognized with a 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. As a scholar of public opinion, she has a long trajectory carrying out surveys across Latin America. Her research relies on a mixed method approach, informing experimental and non-experimental statistical analyses with qualitative information. She is the author of multiple peer-reviewed articles, including publications in World Politics, the Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies, among several others. Currently, she serves as an associate editor for the Latin American Research Review’s Politics and International Relations section.
Sarah Bermeo is a political economist, associate professor of public policy and political science in the Sanford School at Duke University, co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and director of graduate studies for the Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) program housed in the Duke Center for International Development. Her research lies at the intersection of international relations and development, with a particular focus on foreign aid, climate change, migration, and global public goods. She is author of Targeted Development: Industrialized Country Strategy in a Globalizing World (Oxford, 2018) as well as multiple journal articles and book chapters. Sarah is a contributor to the Future Development blog at the Brookings Institution, has authored reports to inform foreign aid policy for multiple governments, and frequently provides insights to media outlets for stories on foreign aid and migration, particularly from Central America.
David Scott FitzGerald is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego. His research analyzes policies regulating migration and asylum in countries of origin, transit, and destination, as well as the experiences of people on the move. FitzGerald’s books include The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach (Polity Press 2023); Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers (Oxford University Press 2019)—winner of best book awards from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) International Migration Section, ASA Human Rights Section, and the International Studies Association’s Human Rights Section; Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press 2014), whose awards include the ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award; and Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration (University of California Press 2009). His seven co-edited books include Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy (Stanford University Press 2021).
Steven Levitsky is the Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. As the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, his research focuses on democratization, authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions. He is author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), a New York Times Best-Seller that has been published in 25 languages, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge, 2010), and Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2003), and co -editor of Informal Institutions and Democracy in Latin America (with Gretchen Helmke) and The Resurgence of the Latin American Left (with Kenneth Roberts). He has written frequently for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Vox, The New Republic, The Monkey Cage, La República (Peru) and Folha de São Paulo (Brazil). He is currently writing a book (with Lucan Way) on the durability of revolutionary regimes. Levitsky received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Presented in collaboration with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs