Mr. Robert Sandler was selected to attend a seminar at Barnard College sponsored by The Academy of Teachers. The seminar, taught by Nara Milanich,a Professor of Latin American History at Barnard College and director of the Center for Mexico and Central America at Columbia University. Milanich also volunteered as a translator and legal assistant for Central American mothers and children incarcerated in the U.S.’s largest immigrant detention center. She has written about immigration in the Washington Post, Dissent, New York Daily News, and NACLA: North American Congress on Latin America. Her seminar, "U.S. Empire and Latin American Migration Past and Present" explored The “border crisis” a topic of discussion and debate. But where does this “crisis” come from? This master class explore the historical roots of the current border situation by focusing on three topics: first, the long history of U.S.-Latin American relations over the course of the 20th century; second, an earlier wave of forced migration during the Cold War; and finally, the current wave of migration, whose reverberations are felt around the world and in our city.
