Latino Families and the Educational Dream
Insisting that we do our interview in English, Ricardo Robles reluctantly recalls the dreams he had for his children when first arriving nine years ago to the U.S. from Zacatecas, Mexico.” They…
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Theme: Immigration and Latino Studies
Harvard Immigration Project
A refrigerator is the most important thing in life, the 10-year-old immigrant child reported in a matter-of-fact sort of way…
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Education in Latin America
Whenever one asks about ways of struggling against impossible odds in Latin America, one is told not to worry because no”hay mal que dure cien anos” (no evil lasts one hundred years). The…
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Delivering the Data
Marta was 18, living at home in El Salvador, when she dated a man who raped her. She told her father about the rape, and he responded by threatening to kill her for damaging the family’s …
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The Environment
In planning my schedule for the weeks of research I spent on the U.S.-Mexican border this summer, I knew I would have to factor traffic into my plans. This was certainly on my mind as…
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