We asked Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, What is democracy?
[quote style=”default”]”Democracy Is…
the inclusion of diversity and heterogeneity on public affairs, a process in which power is shared by people with multiple socio-cultural and ethno-racial backgrounds in order to promote well-being across any type of borders and frontiers harming individuals and communities.[/quote]
Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa is a research associate at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and the Observatory on Immigration Legislation and Policy in Tijuana. He is PhD candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and was research fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego. He was also a student fellow at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and collaborates in the Mexican Initiative for Deferred Action at Baruch College. His work was supported by COMEXUS –Beca Fulbright-García Robles. Follow him @gyrizar.