Jorge Castaneda

New York University

Guest

Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and author of Ex-Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants; former Foreign Minister of Mexico (2000–2003) and former fellow at the New America Foundation

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