This event is hosted by Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement.

Waylaid in Tijuana is a documentary film that explores how immigration policies adopted in Washington, DC reverberate just south of the border in Tijuana, Mexico. It features migrants and asylum seekers from Haiti and Central America, migration experts, government officials, and migrant advocates from the Tijuana/San Diego region who grapple with the consequences of these policies on a daily basis.

This screening is followed by a conversation with Katrina Burgess, the filmmaker and Associate Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Henry J. Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Katrina Burgess is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Henry J. Leir Institute at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is the author of Courting Migrants: How States Make Diasporas and Diasporas Make States (Oxford, 2020) and co-editor with Abraham F. Lowenthal of The California-Mexico Connection (Stanford, 1993), along with numerous articles and book chapters on labor politics, remittances, migration, and diasporas. She has been a consultant for USAID and served as Assistant Director of the U.S.-Mexico Project at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, DC and Associate Director of the California-Mexico Project at USC in Los Angeles. She received a BA in political science from Swarthmore College, an MA in international relations from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in politics from Princeton University.