Migration Dialogues Speaker Series: "Leveraging Protections, Navigating Punishments: How Adult Children of Undocumented Immigrants Mediate Illegality in Latinx Families"

Presented by the UA College of Social and Behavioral Science's Binational Migration Institute and co-presented by the UA Center for Latin American Studies, School of Mexico Initiatives, School of Mexican American Studies, School of Sociology, and the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry

Join us Wednesday, March 30th at 12pm on Zoom for a talk in the Migration Dialogues Speaker Series!

This talk,  "Leveraging Protections, Navigating Punishments: How Adult Children of Undocumented Immigrants Mediate Illegality in Latinx Families," will be hosted by UC Irivine's Department of Sociology PhD candidate Vanessa Delgado. 

Talk summary: There are 16.7 million people who live with at least one undocumented family member in the US today. Scholars have documented how children of undocumented immigrants can help navigate the negative consequences of illegality in their families. However, less is known about how the immigration status of these youth shapes the support they provide to their undocumented parents. This research uncovers how parents' precarious legal status contributes to the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage among citizen and DACAmented young adults--and how these youths try to mediate the harms of illegality.