ICEBREAKER & Conference

Activity Overview. Students will hear from a Mexican expert about the law and operation of the refugee status determination system in this country. Students will have about 15 minutes of Q&A with the expert. Afterwards, you will be arranged in discussion groups to meet, exchange your contact information, and arrange a meeting to do the asynchronous activity.

STEP 1: Join Zoom (LIVE)

Date: Monday Sep 14th

3pm (Toronto), 2pm (Mexico City)

Join the Zoom itesm.zoom.us/j/95859703518 live session where you will meet your professors and global week classmates. You will receive the session password from your professor.

The meeting will begin with a brief overview of the global week goals and objectives.

STEP 2: Conference With Expert (LIVE)

Date: Monday Sep 14th (2:00 pm Mexico-Ecuador, 3:00 pm Toronto)

Lecture: "Mexico Transit to Destination Country: between a criminalization immigration policy an incipient asylum system"

Speaker: Alethia Fernández De la Reguera

Hear attentively to the speaker, and be ready to participate in the Q&A session towards the end of the talk. Alternatively you can post your questions in the zoom chat-box during the conference.

We only ask you to keep an attitude of respect and to ask questions associated with the topics addressed.

STEP 3: work groups

Date: Monday Sep 14th (3:00 pm Mexico-Ecuador, 4:00 pm Toronto)

Ok! Let's start working! You will now be assigned to breakout rooms and you will meet with your global week team.

Begin by introducing yourself, we suggest including the following information:

Who are you? Tell us a little bit about your educational/professional background. What are your strengths, hobbies, or passions?
Exchange with your teammates your contact information and set-up a day/time to meet and work on the collaborative activity.

In summary:

You will get to know the Global Week goals, objectives and activities.
You will meet Global Week teammates and prepare for the collaborative activity.
You will attend the lecture: "Mexico Transit to Destination Country: between a criminalization immigration policy an incipient asylum system".

Alethia Fernández de la Reguera, Ph.D. is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she also coordinates the National Laboratory on Diversities. Mostly, her research focuses on the study of gender immigration policies, institutional violence and immigration detention processes. She coordinates the Erasmus M.A. Program “Euroculture” at UNAM and for the last five years has been a guest scholar at the Erasmus M.A. Program “Transnational Migrations” at the University of Lille, France. She obtained her Ph.D. with honors in Humanistic Studies from Tecnológico de Monterrey, with a dissertation titled “Autonomy processes for decision-making of Mexican female migrant workers returning from the U.S.”. She holds an M.A. in European Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a B.A. in International Relations from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Currently, she is an elected member of the Conacyt-National System of Researchers. She collaborates with the Universitary Seminar on Internal Displacement, Migration, Exile and Repatriation at UNAM. Also, she is part of the UNESCO-Tec Chair on Ethics and Peace Studies and a board member of the Institute for Women in Migration based in Mexico City.

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