Our
daily news is replete with examples of the disruptive influence of
migration.
Here
in Southern California, we’ve been impacted by Central American children
escaping social chaos at home for a better life in the U.S.
At the same time, some of us welcome home children who have been adopted internationally.
Why
are children from other countries treated differently depending on why
they have arrived here?
Jessaca Leinaweaver
is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, where she is
affiliated with the Population Studies and Training Center and the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Her work delves into
the politics of reproduction - illustrated by
child care, adoption, new reproductive technologies, and family separation -
based on her comparative research into Latin American and Spanish cultures.
Leinaweaver has
authored works on different aspects of adoption including The Circulation of Children: Adoption,
Kinship, and Morality in Andean Peru (Duke, 2008), which won the
Margaret Mead Award, and her most recent work Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain
(Duke, 2013). She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, the Fulbright IIE, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and
the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.
Join Dr. Leinaweaver
and BCOC for a provocative discussion of the causes – and possible solutions –
to these social trends.
- Date: Monday, June 20, 2016
- Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
- Admission: FREE!
- Space is limited and Pre-Registration is required.
- Click here for tickets: https://alumni.brown.edu/Alumni/BRAVO/Events/Registration.aspx?Event=1738
- Location: Oasis Senior Center, 801 Narcissus Ave, Corona Del Mar, CA 92625
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