ABOUT OUR CENTER

BOOK PRESENTATION

"The Farmworkers' Journey: Globalization

and the Migrant Circuit between

West-Central Mexico and Central California"

Ann Aurelia López

Dr. Ann López is currently a Research Associate with the Center for Agro ecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UCSC. She completed a University of California Office of the President post-doc in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley in 2006. She is an emeritus professor at San José City College and has taught courses in biology, environmental science, ecology and botany in the biology department for many years. Her research addresses the human side of the binational migration circuit from the subsistence and small producer farms of west central Mexico to employment in California’s corporate agribusiness. She is currently completing the paperwork for the establishment of a non-profit organization, designed to benefit farm workers and their family members on farms in Mexico; Center for Farmworker Families.

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