Erik Camayd-Freixas is Professor of Modern Languages at Florida International University, USA. A cultural critic, literary theorist and forensic linguist, he is an award winning author of nine books including Realismo mágico y primitivismo, Primitivism and Identity in Latin America, Etnografía imaginaria, Orientalism and Identity in Latin America and U.S. Immigration Reform and Its Global Impact. Drawing from cognitive linguistics, semiotics, genre theory and narratology, he has coined the term 'metagrammar' as a new mode of inference and critical reasoning whose application to public policy has earned him international human rights awards.