Javier Muñoz, a Luskin Center grant recipient for 2017, is a doctoral student in the UCLA Department of History. His research focuses on twentieth-century United States history, including social movements, constructions of race, racial capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, migration, and the African Diaspora. He is also a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow. His Luskin Center grant allowed him to attend the Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Forum in Berlin, Germany in November 2017, entitled “Flight and Migration: Societies in Transition,” which he describes in his report here.