When:
Friday, November 13, 2015
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, Room 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Carlos Octavio Ballinas
(847) 467-3980
Group: The Latina and Latino Studies Program
Category: Academic
During the summer of 2014, mainstream media in the United States covered the ongoing plight of Central American child refugees. Based on interviews with 130 members of Salvadoran transnational families, this talk will shed light on the U.S. policies that create the need for migration from the region. Why do parents and children migrate separately? What are their experiences of long-term separation? The presentation will explore the reality of these families' daily living arrangements, while delving deeper to expose the structural context that creates and sustains patterns of inequality in their well-being.
Lecture by Leisy Abrego, Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA