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Lori Flores
Associate Professor
History
College of Arts and Sciences
Biography
Lori Flores' research and writing focus on Latino life, labor, and politics, particularly when it comes to Mexican Americans, immigration, the US-Mexico border region, and California. She is an expert on the Bracero Program and Mexican guestworkers, the Farmworker rights movement both before and after Cesar Chavez, undocumented immigration, and the working and social relationships between different groups of Latinos. Her other interests are gender, civil rights, and global borderlands history.
Education
- PhD, Stanford University
- BA, Yale University
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August 28, 2018
What happened when the Labor Department recruited high school students to replace
migrant farm workers in 1965
The Rural Blog
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September 5, 2017
As Trump weighs ending DACA protections, GW ‘Dreamers’ fear a return to the shadows
The Hatchet
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February 22, 2017
Struggles of world’s refugees spotlighted at Stony Brook forum
Newsday
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February 17, 2017
From California, a Progressive Cry for State’s Rights
New Republic
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January 6, 2017
Migrant Workers-Driven to Death-ABRIDGED story
Associated Press
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