Youth

The Biden administration has proposed legal frameworks to protect unaccompanied immigrant children, while also reopening facilities that have caused widespread harm.

This series explores the politics of child migration in the hemisphere from a historical and contemporary perspective.

Many children of Ecuadorian migrants are de facto orphans, growing up with their parents physically absent, while others lost their parents on the journey to the United States.

The Mexican state legitimizes deportations and family separation by veiling these violent interventions as "protection practices."

Decades after being forcibly separated from their mothers, children put up for transnational adoption under Chile's military dictatorship are searching for their origins.

Tens of thousands of Guatemalan children sought refuge in Mexico during the country's civil war, a history often overlooked in today's discussion of child migration.

Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids' access to education. But this fraught politics of childhood has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.

Understanding the history of child migration and the discourses attached to the phenomenon is critical to countering unjust immigration policies across the hemisphere.

A new documentary draws on Silvio Rodríguez's recollections of Cuba's 1961 literacy campaign, offering an intimate gaze of the humanitarian initiative.

After the interim government declared an early end to the school year, patchy internet and poverty threaten to reduce the number of low-income youth that pursue higher education.

Ofelia Fernández is the youngest lawmaker in Latin America. Despite online hate, she's leading the youth movement for the political rights of women. 

Teachers at an urban public school where violence is rife fear that a new U.S.-backed, police-run gang prevention program may be just another political tool.