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.