{"id":3906,"date":"2014-01-01T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2018-04-16T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:59:04","slug":"transnational-americas-series-crossing-mexico-violence-and-the-commodification-of-central-american-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/transnational-americas-series-crossing-mexico-violence-and-the-commodification-of-central-american-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Americas Series \u201cCrossing Mexico: Violence and the Commodification of Central American Migrants\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wendy-Vogt-Poster-final.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4040\" alt=\"Wendy-Vogt-Poster-final\" src=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wendy-Vogt-Poster-final-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wendy-Vogt-Poster-final-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wendy-Vogt-Poster-final.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>125 McKenzie Hall<br \/>\n1101 Kincaid St.<br \/>\nUO campus<\/p>\n<p><em>The Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and the Latin American Studies Program present the third lecture in the 2014 Transnational Americas Speaker Series<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>A Lecture by Wendy Vogt<\/h4>\n<p>Each year hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants travel clandestine routes across Mexico where they risk abuse, injury, extortion, kidnapping and death. 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