The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline
Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this fraught politics of childhood has also inadvertently ...
The Homeland Securitization of Education in the Borderlands
On April 26, eight high school students ran from their seats in the audience of a Tucson, Arizona district school ...
Beyond the Stigma: Geography of an Identity
For six days they fled through the underbrush from the Salvadoran army, near the Honduran border. The families pushed on ...
The Children of War: Street Gangs in El Salvador
Edgar Bolaños, also known as Shy Boy, trudges to the edge of a soccer field with his friernd Scrappy a ...
ARGENTINA Where Youth Is a Crime
For youths in Buenos Aires it is a weekend institution to trasnochar, to begin the evening at midnight and return ...
Heroes or Hooligans: Media Portrayals of Peruvian Youth
On February 28, 1995, hundreds of people marched through the streets of Comas, a popular district in northern Lima, to ...
The Rights of Children
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November ...
Soccer and Devotion in the Barrios of Santiago
The empty lots of land which dot the and landscapes of Santiago's urban periphery were once planned as tree-lined plazas ...