Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Anthropogenic climate change has already begun to displace millions of people from their homes globally, and is projected to induce hundreds of thousands of people to mig [...]

Nearly half a million undocumented students in the United States are enrolled in a university or college. This thesis investigates how Undocumented Student Liaisons creat [...]

This paper explores the connections between Bakongo cosmologies on the role, function, and manifestation of the spirit in the Petwo rites of Haitian Vodou. I argue that t [...]

Femicide is the term given to describe the gender-based murder of a woman or girl by a man (Merriam-Webster). This is the most extreme form of gender-violence and, sadly, [...]

In 1969, the Peruvian military launched a coup and quickly enacted what has been called Latin America’s ‘most radical agrarian reform’. The focus of this study is a [...]

The American middle-skilled labor market, which consists of jobs that require some postsecondary training but not a Bachelor’s degree, presents various opportunities fo [...]

This paper examines speeches, articles, interviews and tweets from four New York City Latinx public figures: attorney Elizabeth Yeampierre, journalist Yessenia Funes, con [...]

This paper examines Catherine Cortez Masto's appeals to Latino Voters over her three statewide elections in nevada. Cortez Masto made headlines in 2016 when she became th [...]