Join us at the Centennial Museum for a powerful conversation on immigration justice with Dr. Jose Jorge Mendoza and Dr. Luis Ruben Diaz Cepeda. Explore new perspectives on migration and resilience in this program for the “Punto de Partida: Immigrants, Asylum, Seekers, and Hospitality in the Borderlands” exhibition. Don’t miss it!
Dr. Mendoza is the book review editor at Radical Philosophy Review, author of The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration: Liberty, Security, and Equality (Lexington Books 2017), and has published extensively on the philosophy of migration. His current research centers on migration ethics, Latinx identity, and racial justice. Dr. Diaz Cepeda is a philosopher and a sociologist. His research focuses on ethics, borders, migration, and social movements from a decolonial perspective with an emphasis on the philosophy of liberation. His recent works include Latin American Philosophy and Social Movements: From Ciudad Juárez to Ayotzinapa (Lexington Books, 2020), Latin American Immigration Ethics (Eds. Reed Sandoval and Díaz Cepeda, AUP, 2021), and Struggles for Liberation in Abya Ayala (Eds. Díaz Cepeda and Rosen Velasquez, Wiley Blackwell, 2024). Dr. Diaz Cepeda is currently a second-year Ph.D. student pursuing a second doctorate in sociology at UTEP.
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