Description
Kimberly Gauderman discusses migration from Central America’s Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) to the US, focusing on country conditions that push people to leave their homes and the perils they face in crossing Mexico and entering the US asylum system. As an expert witness in Latin American asylum cases since 2010, Gauderman includes an explanation of the asylum process and the growing restrictions that prevent asylum seekers from finding safety in the US, a right that is guaranteed in US and international law.
Kimberly Gauderman received her PhD in Latin American History at UCLA and joined the UNM’s History Department in 1998. She is the 2020 Distinguished Feminist Research Lecturer at UNM, awarded by the Feminist Research Institute.