Photojournalist Lectures As Part Of Globalization Series
Photojournalist and former labor organizer David Bacon will present a lecture, “Globalization, Displaced Communities and Migration,” on November 13 at 7 p.m., Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Thursday, November 8, 2007 01:59 PM
The talk, part of the semester-long Center for Ethics series, Globalization from Above and Below, is free and open to the public.
In his presentation, Bacon will discuss the effect of free trade policies in displacing people and entire communities in developing countries, like Mexico. Displaced communities are swept up in a migration process that takes people both into maquiladoras on the U.S./Mexico border, and across that border into the U.S. Should U.S. trade and immigration policy simply take advantage of that available and vulnerable labor, or should it protect the human rights of migrants and reduce the economic pressure on their home communities? Bacon will explore these questions through the voices of migrants themselves, and photographs documenting their communities.
He is the author of Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices From the World of Migration (Cornell, 2006). In this work of photojournalism and oral history, he documents the new reality of migrant experience: the creation of transnational communities. Drawing on his experience as a photographer, journalist, and former labor organizer, Bacon portrays the lives of the people who migrate between Guatemala and Mexico and the United States. He takes us inside these communities and illuminates the ties that bind them together, the influence of their working conditions on their families and health, and their struggle for better lives.
A reception will follow the discussion.
For more information on this program or other Center for Ethics programs, please visit www.muhlenberg.du/cultural/ethics.
Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.
