Friday, November 14,2025 | 12:00PM – 1:30PMPacificTime
Will be held via Zoom (This Event May Be Recorded) Register for Zoom Info Here

Book Talk Speakers:

Andrew Selee is President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a global nonpartisan institution that seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through fact-based research, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.

Diego Chaves-González is Senior Manager for MPI’s Latin America and Caribbean Initiative, which aims to create dialogue and foster the exchange of innovative policy ideas among Latin American governments and their partners.

Valerie Lacarte is a Senior Policy Analyst with MPI’s U.S. Immigration Policy Program, where she contributes to research design and conducts data analysis on a range of issues, including native-immigrant gaps in socioeconomic outcomes and access to public benefits for vulnerable immigrant and humanitarian populations.

Ariel G. Ruiz Soto is a Senior Policy Analyst at MPI, where he works with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program and the Latin America and Caribbean Initiative

Discussant: Rubén Hernández-León (Director of the UCLA Latin American Institute and Professor of Sociology)

On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

In a newly published , On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) President Andrew Selee and coauthors Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, and Diego Chaves-González offer the first comprehensive look at policy responses by governments in the region and shed light on the lesser-known dynamics of migration in, to, and through the region. Through compelling storytelling and rigorous analysis, the authors uncover how governments and societies in Latin America and the Caribbean are adapting—unevenly, yet innovatively—to an era of unprecedented human mobility