A report from the field Latina/o youth, JROTC and ethnographic practice

Autor: Gina M. Pérez
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Latino Studies. 13:269-279
ISSN: 1476-3443
1476-3435
DOI: 10.1057/lst.2015.14
Popis: In mid-July 2014 at the height of increasing alarm and frenzied media coverage about the unfolding humanitarian emergency involving thousands of unaccompanied minors at the US–Mexico border, the New York Times published a powerful essay by journalist Sonia Nazario who argued that the events constituted not a new immigration crisis, but instead a refugee crisis with tens of thousands of young people fleeing extreme violence in their homes throughout Central America. And while the origins of this calamity are complex and deeply rooted in local, transnational and geopolitical events, the response by the US government, according to Nazario, should be straightforward and aligned with clear international conventions guiding humanitarian responses to refugee crises around the world. “It would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since October, many of them legitimate refugees,” Nazario argues. “This is not how a great nation treats its children” (Nazario, 2014). In both her essay and broader investigative reporting, Nazario provides the kind of detailed, nuanced and extensive engagement with peoples’ lives that is absolutely essential for telling a story that both defies reductionist and deeply polarized positions on immigration, and offers, instead, the possibility for
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