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Child and Nation in Latin America
Global Ideals, Local Realities
What does it mean to be a child?
What qualities, experiences, rights, and liberties do Western discourses assign to childhood as a social category?
And how have modern Latin American states, societies, and institutions reconciled these with local realities?
This space is dedicated to the exploration of the bounds of childhood: biological, legal, cultural, visual, rhetorical, and social.
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Ecuadorian Roses: Child Labor on Flower Farms
Flowers bloom and become beautiful products. The same could be said of children. In order for a child to bloom into a beautiful adult,...
It'll Stunt Your Growth! Or Will It? Child Labor vs. Working Child on Guatemalan Coffee Farms
Coffee. The preferred drink of many people in the morning and the lifeline of the Guatemalan economy. Would you still be drinking that...
In Search of the Lost Children of El Salvador's Civil War
Pro-Busquéda’s ad for family members to submit their DNA into the database and find their biological family members. Photo credit...
Drug Money and Disrupted Childhoods: A Look at Children's Involvement in Mexican Cartels
Assault rifles have long been the symbolic representation of revolutions, insurgencies, and violent uprisings around the world....
Bleeding for a Buck: Child Poverty and the Profitability of Pain in Mexico City
A young man, 18, performing with broken glass in the streets of Mexico City In Mexico City, street children do what they can to make sure...
The Evocative and the Endangered: Climate Change and Children in Mexico
Children make up 37-40% of the population in Mexico’s poorest states of Chiapas and Guerrero. 60% of the population under 18 fall below...
C is for Children, R is for Revolution: Castro’s Curricular Revolution
Although the campaign helped adults become literate, it also provided the groundwork to establish primary and secondary schools in...
The Children among the Barrels: Extractivism and Climate Change in Ecuador
Young Ecuadorian child captured in front of a Texaco oil barrel leftover from spillage. Photo courtesy of selva- vida sin fronteras...
Paul Rocha
Investing in the Future: Education as an Economic Alternative to Child Labor in Peru
"My dream is to have no more children working by the end of my term." - Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, 2012 The idea that...
The Question of Educational Justice for Mapuche Youth in Chile
“We need to talk about a model of Mapuche education and a form of passing on the knowledge and wisdom of our culture.” This is a quote...
Jordan Proce
Behind Bars: The Criminalization of Migrant Youth
Migrant children held in an El Paso, Texas migrant detention center on the southern border
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The blog posts presented here are the result of our semester-based, interdisciplinary inquiry in the capstone course Child and Nation in Latin America at Miami University of Ohio. These projects culminate student expertise gathered in Latin American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Studies, a degree program housed in the department of Global and Intercultural Studies.
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