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Guatemalan forced migration: The politics of care in representing refugees

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Photograph of Juana Andres Perez (age 101) and Angelina Andres Alonzo (age 82). They are the oldest midwives of La Gloria, a former Guatemalan refugee settlement in Chiapas, Mexico. Photo © Manuel Gil, September 2006.

Between 21st April and 3 May 2008 the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) will be holding a photographic exhibition looking at the subject of Forced Migration in Guatemala, the venue will be The Gallery at Oxford Town Hall. The photographer Manuel Gil worked in collaboration with Oscar Gil, a Visiting Study Fellow at the RSC and doctoral candidate at the University of California at Santa Barbara. To find out more, you can download and view a PDF file of the RSC’s 2008 Programme of Events.