Overview
- Addresses the complexities of border immigration from a critical pedagogy perspective
- Gives a comprehensive treatment of issues of power on Latinos/as
- Helps readers to gain a more educated and informed perspective for Latinas/os
Part of the book series: Explorations of Educational Purpose (EXEP, volume 14)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
There are an estimated forty-eight million Latinas/os living in the United States, roughly sixteen percent of the population. Not only are they the largest minority group in the country but also the youngest: one out of five children is Latina/o. The rise in the Latina/o population has caused for panic in some areas of the country, resulting in hostile and sometimes violent racism and xenophobia, and yet, much of that hatred is fueled not on facts but rather on myths about immigration.
To date, most studies on immigration have been data driven, focusing on migrating groups or policy analyses. Latina/o Hope is different. It incorporates salient theories on migration as it moves toward a new theorizing, one that views immigration from the immigrant's perspective. Thus, it integrates research into the depiction of various slices of immigrant experience—the young women disappearing in the city of Juarez, the various students at various stages of their educational journeys,the young children in need of ESL programs, the ethnically-mixed immigrants, the undocumented workers, and others.
Latina/o Hope discusses the impact of neoliberal policies and global capitalization on the daily lives of Latina/o immigrants, serving as an inspiration for dialogue, praxis and imagination to love and serve one another.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Latina/o Hope
Authors: Lourdes Diaz Soto
Series Title: Explorations of Educational Purpose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0504-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0503-6Published: 09 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3522-4Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0504-3Published: 23 March 2011
Series ISSN: 1875-4449
Series E-ISSN: 1875-4457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 113
Topics: Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education