The Center for the Humanities Presents: Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, Innocence for Whom? The History of Rights Violations Against Migrant Mexican and Central American Youth in the U.S.
In the United States, the treatment of migrant minors effectively robbed them of their innocence and the privileges associated with modern childhood. This talk reveals that these deprivations are part of a long history. By focusing on the migration of Mexican and Central American minors to the U.S. in the past century, the talk will trace how the U.S. began designing legal and policy tools to deprive impoverished migrant minors of their childhood at the very moment the U.S. began to codify the rights of childhood into law. It will also show how decades of legal decisions and bipartisan policy choices in the twentieth century deprived migrant workers’ children of the emergent rights of childhood.
There will be a Q&A after led by Valeria Ochoa, Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Heritage Education at OSU.
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois Chicago. A social and legal historian of child migration, she is currently working on a book project that traces the origins of the school-to-deportation pipeline, migrant youth labor trafficking, child detention, and family separation.
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