The California-Mexico Studies Center. Inc.

and

Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras (DEAS-INAH) XXX Aniversario,

invite you to the

Seminar on California-Mexico Policy Issues to be held in Mexico City at

The University of California’s Casa California during

June 28 – 30, 2012

Seminar Program

 

Thursday, June 28th:

 

6:00 p.m. – Welcoming reception & review of seminar program

Friday, June 29th:

10:00 a.m. – Welcome & Inauguration

Keynote Presentations:

Armando Vazquez- Ramos & Juan Manuel Sandoval – “Politicas entre California y México después de las elecciones de 2012”

Mesa #1: Políticas públicas sobre migración

Ana Alicia Peña (Facultad de Economía, UNAM): “La situación actual de los migrantes laborales mexicanos en Estados Unidos”.

Iván Jiménez (Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras): “De migrantes a empresarios agrícolas”

Mesa #2: Politicas públicas sobre elecciones y medios de comunicacion

Frambel Lizárraga (Posgrado en Ciencias Poíticas y Sociales, UNAM y Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras): “Los Mass Media y la participación de los latinos en las elecciones en Estados Unidos”.

1:00 p. m. Discusión y reflexión colectiva

2:00 p.m. – Receso de comida

3:00 p.m. – Keynote Presentation:

Senator Tom Hayden – “Student Movements Since The 1960’s to #YoSoy132”

4:00 p.m.

Mesa #3: Las elecciones 2012 de México – “Democracia o fraude electoral ?”

Alfonso Velasco (Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras): “Secciones electorales irregulares en el fraude electoral de 2006, la antesala del 2012.”

Mesa #4: El voto en el exterior y la representacion politica de los mexicanos en el exterior

Gonzalo Badillo (Coalición por los Derechos Políticos de los Mexicanos en el Extranjero/CDPME). “El voto y la representación de los mexicanos en el exterior.”

Juan Manuel Sandoval (Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras): “El voto de los chilangos en el exterior”.

5:00 p. m. Discusión y reflexión colectiva

6:00 p.m. – Receso

Saturday, June 30:

10:00 a.m. – Keynote Presentation:

Gonzalo Santos – “El panorama político de México hacia los Estados Unidos post-electoral”

11:00 a.m. – Keynote Presentation:

Primitivo Rodriguez – “La Nación mexicana en el exterior”

12:00 a.m. Reflexión colectiva

2:00 p.m. Clausura del Seminario

There will be no registration fees but a nominal charge for meals will be expected from the participants.

The location of the seminar is as follows:

 

Casa California

Casa de la Universidad de California en México

Carmen #1, Chimalistac, Delegación Álvaro Obregón

México City, México CP 01070

Teléfono (+ 52 55) 56-62-41-35

The following “Open Letter” (Click here to read full letter!) to all candidates for Mexico’s Presidency and Congress on the July 1st 2012 election, reflects the framework of the agenda that will be discussed and debated at the Seminar on California-Mexico Policy Issues that the CMSC will host with El SeminarioPermanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras (SPECHF), as we did jointly in June 2006.

The goal of this year’s seminar is to publish a comprehensive document that will be submitted for consideration to the next President of Mexico, Mexico City’s new Mayor, State Governors and the new Federal and State Legislatures.

The proposed comprehensive policy document will recommend and propose the structure and priorities that the new executive and legislative branches of government need to implement, in response to the needs of over 32 million Mexicans that live outside of Mexico and that equal over 25% of the total Mexican population:

(http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br- 04.pdf)

At the same time, please consider signing the following petition that will indicate your support of this initiative, and please request the same from all your contacts, even if you cannot attend the seminar.

“The CMSC’s letter to all Mexican presidential and congressional candidates seeks to promote policies and programs that will respond to the needs of over 32 million Mexican immigrants in the United States, under the new president and legislature to be elected on July 1st 2012. Letter and articles related to this petition at: www.california-mexicocenter.org” Click here to sign the petition!