Tag: migration

What Happens to Guatemalan Children After Deportation
February 4, 2026

What Happens to Guatemalan Children After Deportation

Detention, deportation, and the cost of return for Guatemalan children Lauren Heidbrink Art by Gabriela Afable. Used with permission. Camila was fourteen when she was deported from Houston to Guatemala. It was her first time on an airplane. When the chartered plane landed at Guatemala …

Anthropology, Featured, Latin American Studies
September 10, 2015

The Barbarism of the Migrant

Mexican immigrants to the U.S. face a stigma that stretches back to ancient civilization.

Philosophy, Politics
March 11, 2015

Dismantling the Racial Paradise

How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil.

Latin American Studies, Sociology
August 12, 2014

Intervention and Displacement

How U.S. involvement in Central America pushes children and families to migrate. by LEISY ABREGO There is no doubt that violence and extreme insecurity are significant and immediate driving factors in the migration of children and families from Central America today. Since the early 1990s, …

Latin American Studies, Sociology