Date
Feb 21, 2025, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
Location
144 Louis Simpson Building

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Event Description

A Brazil LAB event with José Juan Pérez Meléndez. Discussants: Isadora Moura Mota and Miqueias Mugge.

José Juan Pérez Meléndez is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Davis. His research centers on political, business and migratory dynamics that have shaped governmental mechanisms of population control and transport in the Americas. His first book, titled Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil: Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization (2024), charts the formation of early migration policy in Brazil in counterpoint to global processes.