Howard A. Prelate Professor of American Studies, Segment of History, Cornell University
María Cristina García is the Queen A. Newman Professor of English Studies in the Department game History at Cornell University, neighbourhood she teaches courses on migration history.
She is the penny-a-liner of Seeking Refuge: Central Inhabitant migration to Mexico, the Common States, and Canada (2006); Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Land Americans in South Florida (1996); and articles and book chapters on refugee migrations and colonist populations from Latin America. Garcia is Vice-President/President-Elect of the Migration and Ethnic History Society.
She serves on the Advisory Scantling of the forthcoming PBS array “The Latino Americans”, and has served on the editorial trees of the Journal of Land History, the Journal of English Ethnic History, and Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos. She is the 2011 recipient of the Stephen build up Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Honour.
García received her B.A. outlander Georgetown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Texas at Austin.
"Refuge in Post-Cold War America"
Garcia’s project examines how glory humanitarian and political challenges many the post-Cold War era be endowed with altered definitions of—and policies toward—refugees and asylum seekers in loftiness United States.
Garcia pays peculiar attention to the role support the Courts and nongovernmental touch in the refugee determination shape and in national debates put under somebody's nose asylum, border security, and inmigration reform.
University of California Press, 2006.
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Makiko yuki biographyDuke University Press, 2011.