González-López to discuss “transnational incest”

Gloria González-López, associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, will present the lecture “Transnational Incest: Mexican Families, Sexual Violence, and Migration” at the CSRC Library on Friday, May 25, noon–1:30 p.m. González-López will report preliminary findings from a qualitative study she conducted in 2005 and 2006 involving sixty Mexican women and men with histories of incestuous relationships. Using the rubric of “transnational incest,” her research examines the ways in which migration, settlement, and return migration may become part of the nuanced and complex context surrounding women’s and men’s incestuous experiences (both voluntary and involuntary) in Mexican society. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on International Migration at the UCLA International Institute, the UCLA Latin American Institute, the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, the Gender Working Group in the UCLA Department of Sociology, and the CSRC.

Watch the video of this event here.