Lisa Maya Knauer, professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, speak sabout immigration from Guatemala at the 2019 annual meeting of the Friends of the Millicent Library on 5/20/19. Submitted photo.
Press Release
The Friends of the Millicent Library held their annual meeting on Monday, May 20. The meeting began with a moment of silence for a teenaged migrant who died that afternoon in ICE custody, as well as all those coming to America since the seventeenth century who did not survive their journeys.
Nearly fifty people heard Lisa Maya Knauer, professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, speak about immigration from Guatemala. She described the violence and poverty that have led people to leave their country, the reasons they have come to the South Coast, and the opportunities and problems they face once they are here.
Professor Knauer has lived in Guatemala and has worked with New Bedford’s immigrant community for more than a decade.
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