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SUMMARY:Mexican and Central American Youth Migration and the Making of Childhood in the United States
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DESCRIPTION:Frau Julia Fleck ()
Mexican and Central American Youth Migration and the Making of Childhood in the United States
9th Global Migration Lecture with Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez
In the United States, where innocence is considered inseparable from the ideal of childhood, the treatment of migrant minors presents Americans with a harrowing exception. In spite of their tender age, noncitizen youth in recent years have faced family separation, prolonged detention, dangerous human smuggling, labor exploitation, and continuous threats to their educational access. These rights violations have effectively robbed them of their innocence and the privileges associated with modern childhood.

This talk reveals that these deprivations are part of a long history. By focusing on the migration of Mexican and Central American minors to the U.S. in the past century, the talk will trace how the U.S. began designing legal and policy tools to deprive impoverished migrant minors of their childhood at the very moment the U.S. began to codify the rights of childhood into law.

The lecture is organized by the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in cooperation with the InZentIM.
Tuesday, 5. December 2023
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