Thursday, October 6 and Friday, October 7, 2022
#youthmobility
For this symposium, we will highlight child or youth-centric research focused on mobilities between and within countries in the Americas, or between the Americas and another geographic region. We conceptualize mobilities broadly to include migrations, adoptions, legal status shifts, and educational and social mobilities. The goal is to emphasize what we gain from putting children or youth at the center of research inquiry, as this helps us to better understand (a) theories related to mobilities more broadly, and (b) the policy implications of such research.
The format we are implementing is through Zoom. The Zoom platform would allow us to reach a wider audience considering the challenging times we are all experiencing as a result of COVID. This virtual environment offers the ability to connect with the various presenters while considering everyone’s unique context.
Registration
- Email [email protected] with your contact information and institutional affiliation before Friday September 30th.
- You will receive a confirmation of your registration, follow by the links to the Zoom presentations.
Organization
- Leah Schmalzbauer, Amherst College
- Joanna Dreby, University at Albany,
Sponsored by
- Amherst College: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Department of American Studies and Program in Latinx and Latin American Studies.
- University at Albany: LACS and Sociology Departments, the Center for Intercultural Student Engagement and the College of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s office.
Tentative Symposium Schedule
Thursday, October 6
12:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
1 – 2:15 Plenary I: Spaces and Places of Belonging
Sarah Bruhn, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston College & Roberto Gonzales, University of Pennsylvania
Alexis Silver, SUNY Purchase College
Monica Ruiz-Casares et al, Toronto Metropolitan University
2:30 – 3:45 Plenary II: In Transit
Chiara Galli, University of Chicago
Óscar Gil-García, University at Buffalo, Sarah Vener, Binghamton University, Francesca Bové, Binghamton University, & Nilüfer Akalin, Michigan State University
4-5:15 Plenary III: Critical Lenses on Educational Mobility
Andrea Flores, Brown University
Sarah Gallo, Rutgers University, & Melissa Adams Corral, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Kristina Lovato, University of California Berkeley, & Ruth Enid Zambrana, University of Maryland
Friday, October 7
10-11:15 Emerging Scholars Panel I: Youth as Creative Actors
Vanessa Delgado, Stony Brook University
Argenis Hurtado Moreno, Brown University
Benoît Vallée, University at Albany
Mario Martinez Garcia, Ohio State University
11:30-12:45 Emerging Scholars Panel II: Navigating Legal Structures
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, University of California Davis
Eric Macias, University at Albany
Lucia León, Dominican University of California
Sophia L. Ángeles, University of California Los Angeles
1:30 - 2:30 Breakout Rooms – Paper Discussions between Partners
Plenary Scholar Paper Titles
Sarah Bruhn and Roberto G. Gonzales
Geographies of Belonging: Migrant Youth and Relational, Community, and National Opportunities for Inclusion
Alexis Silver
Young Return Migrants in Mexico
Monica Ruiz-Casares et al
Mobility & Agency in Assessing Appropriateness of Child Supervision/Care in the Context of Cultural Diversity
Chiara Galli
The Effects of the COVID Pandemic on Unaccompanied Youth Navigating US Removal Proceedings
Óscar Gil-García, Sara Vener, Francesca Bove, Nilüfer Akalin
Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous and Black Migrant Children and Youth Through a Transnational Ecological Model Across the Americas and Caribbean
Angel Escamilla Garcia
Precarious Stepwise Migration and its Limits
Andrea Flores
‘I’ve lived everything they are trying to teach us:’ Immigrant Youth’s Ambivalent Educational Mobility in Predominantly White Institutions
Sarah Gallo and Melissa Adams Corral
Young Transborder Children’s Critical Consciousness and Schooling
Kristina Lovato and Ruth Enid Zambrana
The Impact of Institutional Barriers on the Life Course of Latino/a/x Youth’s Educational, Social Mobility & Stability: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Emerging Scholar Paper Titles
Vanessa Delgado
Uncovering Youth’s Invisible Labor: How Immigration Laws Shape Children’s Roles and Familial Obligations
Argenis Hurtado Moreno
Medical Recrossings: the circulation of care and kinship across borders.
Benoît Vallée
A B-Side Take on Candensuses: Counterhegemonic Narratives on Dominicanyork Youth’s Return to the Dominican Republic During the Late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
Mario Martinez Garcia
From English Learners to English Teachers: Educational Experiences of Transborder Students in a TESOL College Program in Mexico
Lizbeth De la Cruz Santana
Undocumented Youth Activist Consciousness on the Legal Violence of Waiting: ‘We are immigrants not saints’
Eric Macias
From Potential ‘Ninis’ to ‘Drop Outs’: The Transnational Continuity of Labels and Stigmas of Undocumented Youth
Lucia Leon
‘I’m still living with the effects of over a decade of growing up undocumented:’ Latina/o/x Young Adults, Legal Violence and Transitions Towards Legality
Sophia L. Ángeles
Migrating Dreams: Latinx Newcomer Youth’s Multiple and Varying Future Aspirations
Pairings:
Óscar Gil-García / Benoît Vallée
Sarah Gallo and Melissa Corral / Sophia L. Ángeles
Sarah Bruhn and Roberto Gonzales / Lucia León
Andrea Flores / Eric Macias
Kristina Lovato and Ruth Enid Zambrana / Vanessa Delgado
Chiara Galli / Lizbeth De la Cruz Santana
Alexis Silver and Angel Escamilla Garcia / Mario Garcia Martinez
Monica Ruiz-Casares / Argenis Hurtado Moreno