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Latapi 4.2.08
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
"Measuring the Cost of Migration for Mexico”
Dr. Agustín Escobar Latapí
 
Dr. Agustín Escobar Latapí is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S. – Mexican Studies. Concurrently, he is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social en Occidente (CIESAS). Dr. Escobar is a member of the Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (CONEVAL) and of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) at the highest level. In 1994, he received the national award for scientific research in social sciences from the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias to which he is also a member. He has authored or been co-author of 8 books and over 90 articles and chapters. Until 2006, he was director of the “Mexico – US Migration Management: a Binational Approach”. From 1999 to 2005, he oversaw the qualitative evaluation of Oportunidades, Mexico’s main social policy program. His most recent publications include: Pobreza y migración internacional (CIESAS, 2008) and “The Economy, Development and Work in the Final Report of the GCIM” International Migration (4: 2006).
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