Child Migrations Across the Americas

3 undergraduate hours / 4 graduate hours The course examines why and how migrant children have played a central role in migration history in the Americas In the first part, we will review critical anthropology and human geography contributions to rethinking childhood as protagonists of migration. Concepts as childhood, adultcentrism, “minor", child subjectivity, and youth as producers of space and time, will be discussed In the second part, we will focus on concrete cases where children and adolescents have been active protagonists of migration processes either as sons and daughters of migrant parents growing up in transnational families, as migrants themselves, as deportees or even as coyotes

We will examine how migrant children have taken a predominant role as jornaleros in migrant-sending communities, as workers in the US, how they face the complex immigration system across the Americas, and how they grow up in sanctuaries or between countries of origin, transit and destination We will review the cases of migrant children in the Andes, Central America, Mexico, the US, Venezuela, Brazil and the Mexico-US border The course will teach you about playful research methodologies, ethics, and responsibilities associated with conducting research on migrant children, all of which will be applied to their final research projects

Prerequisite(s): Any two 200-level Latin American and Latino Studies courses or consent of the instructor

Lecture Instructor

Soledad Alvarez-Velasco

TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

CRN

CRN 32584

CRN 33585

Lals 495

Latin@ Futurity

3 undergraduate hours / 4 graduate hours An exploration of Latin@/e/x futurity including utopian/dystopian and speculative imaginaries in literature, film, and pop media across the Americas Analysis through afro-futurity, queer, and feminist lenses

Seminar discussion and research

Lecture Instructor

Esther Diaz Martin

R 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM

CRN

CRN 36760

CRN 36761