Spring 2025
Course Title: "Latinx youth, mobility and rights"
Professor: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
Associate Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies (info about meLinks to an external site.)
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Meetings: MW 10:30-12:20pm in 154 Mueller Hall
Email: cpt4@uw.edu
Off Hours: TBA in A517 Padelford Hall
In a discussion-based seminar, students will explore the relationships between youth, mobility and rights in the context of migration. What has changed for Latinx children and youth in the experience of migration? What are the changing social and economic patterns of family organization and relationships? Students will examine the complex experiences across the life stages of young migrants in family, work, documentation, deportation, and social movements, just to name a few. Students will also have a broad understanding of laws and policies that structure the lives of Latinx migrant youth as well as this community's impact on their design. I approach this course as a sociologist, but the course literature will draw on critical race and migration scholarship across several disciplines.
By the end of the course students should:
- Understand how to use youth, race and gender as analytical categories in the study of different arenas of social life impacted by international migration;
- Be familiar with main concepts, theories and empirical contributions, in the field of youth and migration studies;
- Be familiar with young migrants’ contributions to research, policy and practice.
This is an upper-division course – students should be prepared to:
- Speak aloud in every class meeting – discussion is a core, required assignment in this class.
- Complete and assess readings analytically in class discussions.
- Conduct independent work and research and work on a final research project.
- Share observations and insights with class members. At all times, you must do so in a respectful tone and conscientious manner towards your peers and professor.
Learning Outcomes. After completing this course students will:
- Advance skills in writing, reasoning and in organizing coherent arguments.
- Advance competency in data analyses, theories, and methods, mainly from social sciences.
- Be familiar with public discourse on topics like migration, racism and diversity.
- Be able to critically analyze and write in varied texts a richer contribution about race, justice, rights and inclusion.
Course readings are interdisciplinary from sociology, anthropology, critical race and ethnic studies, education, feminist studies, history, and legal studies. You should have a basic familiarity with studies in race, ethnicity, gender, labor, inequality and migration OR read supplementary material on your own that will support your studies.