César Chávez Fellow Melanie Plasencia in Generations Today
"Immigration status plays a significant role in how one navigates old age," says Melanie Plasencia Cesar Chavez Fellow in Generations Today.
[more]This event convened a panel of experts to discuss the upcoming October 2022 federal elections in Brazil, arguably one of the most pressing elections of modern contemporary Latin American politics. In 2018, Brazilians elected the far-right Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Bolsonaro's election represented the most serious challenge to Brazil's democracy since the restoration of civilian rule in 1985 after over two decades of military dictatorship (1964-85). In conjunction with Bolsonaro's sustained weakening of democratic institutions and norms, his presidency has seen record deforestation of the Amazon, rising violence against Afro-Brazilians, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ persons, and a troubled response against the COVID-19 pandemic in which Bolsonaro spread misinformation about vaccines. His main opponent is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores), the former trade union leader and president of Brazil (2003-10), whose previous imprisonment on corruption charges based on flimsy evidence preemptively ended his 2018 presidential campaign. The current election promises to be no less dramatic and our panel of experts will address a complex, highly fluid situation whose implications extend beyond Brazil and will engage anyone interested in the global rise of right-wing authoritarian populists, climate change, and the potential redux of the 2000s "Pink Tide" of leftist leaders across Latin America.
You can view the recording here: Precarious Democracy recording
"Immigration status plays a significant role in how one navigates old age," says Melanie Plasencia Cesar Chavez Fellow in Generations Today.
[more]Almita Miranda is the 2015-2016 César Chávez Fellow. Miranda is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her research interests are in cultural and political/legal anthropology, race/ethnicity, gender, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, Latino families and grassroots organizing in the U.S. and Mexico/Latin America.
[more]Charlene Cruz-Cerdas is a Ph.D. candidate from the department of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and is the current 2014-2015 César Chávez Fellow.
[more]This year, Dartmouth is home to three scholars fresh from the graduate programs where they have prepared their doctoral work.
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