With speaker Juan Espindola, Assistant Professor, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, Mexico City
Discussant: Tatiana Geron, HGSE Doctoral Candidate
April 19, 2018
In his presentation, Espindola argued that normative theories of immigration fail to appreciate that children of returning migrants (for example, of Mexican migrants returning to their homeland) ought to benefit from educational provisions addressing needs that are particular to their situation. Since these children may be forced to move between two societies (their parents’ homeland and the host society), they have a right to receive an education that not only allows them to integrate into the host society, but also that prepares them to transition between, and develop fully in, both societies. The duty to provide for this right must be discharged jointly by the two nations involved in the migratory process.
Speaker Biography:
Juan Espindola is an Assistant Professor in the Education Program at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. As a political theorist and author of Transitional Justice after German Reunification. Exposing Unofficial Collaborators (Cambridge University Press, 2015), he also researches private schooling and educational equality.
