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Latina/o Immigrant Youth: Challenging Boundaries and Creating Safe Spaces  \nHinda Seif  \nUniversity of Illinois at Springfield Springfield, IL  \nResearch Paper Series on Latino Immigrant Civic and Political Participation, No. 5  \nJune 2009  \n[www.wilsoncenter.org/migrantparticipation](www.wilsoncenter.org/migrantparticipation)  \nThe Civic Education and Engagement of Latina/o Immigrant Youth: Challenging Boundaries and Creating Safe Spaces By Hinda Seif, University of Illinois at Springfield  \nAs demographics shift and immigration is a hotly contested area of US civic life, the civic preparation and participation of Latin American immigrant youth is becoming increasingly important. I examine the growing literature on this topic, inquiring into the political and demographic changes that have stimulated this area of inquiry, the challenges of studying this population, and what we currently know and what we still need to know about immigrant youth civic engagement and activism. At a time when the struggle for immigrant rights in the US is caught in the crossfire of severe recession and racism, young immigrant activists offer a ray of hope through their modest yet noteworthy successes. Scholarship on their civic engagement sheds light on ways that young people who live on the fault line between nation-states are creatively forging civic identities, claiming political voices, and making an impact.  \nDespite assertions that Latin American immigration threatens the vitality of U.S. civic life (Huntington 2004) and research findings that immigrants are less likely to engage civically than US citizens, 1 in 2006, Latinos with varied relationships to the US nationstate led some of the largest political mobilizations in U. S. history.2 In the 2008 presidential election, Latinos may have provided the margin of victory in swing states.3 Numerous scholars are revisiting the question of Latina/o immigrant civic engagement to make sense of the gap between academic findings that it is low and their recent, remarkable political activism and influence.4 Due to the geographic proximity of Latin America, the dependence of Latin Americans on remittances, and the increasing construction of Latin American immigrants as illegal,5 the transnational and human rights  \n1 S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Mark Baldassare, \"The Ties That Bind: Changing Demographics and Civic Engagement in California,\" (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2004); S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Celia Viramontes, \"Civic Inequalities: Immigrant Volunteerism and Community Organizations in California,\" (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2006) .  \n2 Gustavo Cano, \"Political Mobilization of Latino Immigrants in American Cities and the U. S. Immigration Debate,\" (New York: Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, 2009) ; Sylvia R. Lazos, \"The Immigrant Rights Marches (Las Marchas): Did the “Gigante”(Giant) Wake up or Does It Still Sleep Tonight?,\" Nevada Law Journal 7 (2007) .  \n3 Laura Limonic, \"Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Elections: A Visual Data Base,\" (New York: Latino Data Project, Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies, City University of New York, 2008) .  \n4 Irene Bloemraad and Christine Trost, \"It's a Family Affair: Inter-Generational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests.,\" American Behavioral Scientist 52, no. 4 (2008) .  \n5 Nicholas De Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Mexican \"Illegality\"In Mexican Chicago (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005) .  \ndimensions of Latina/o politics challenge traditional paradigms of borders and citizenship.  \nGrowth and Dispersal of Latina/o Immigrant Communities  \nAs part of a long tradition of examining the acculturation process of the children of immigrants, scholars are looking at the recent political activity of 2nd generation Latina/o youth, for example in the 2006 protests.6 Although immigrant youth education7 ","cbCaioUAF50zKWZM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioUAF50zKWZM","pdf",213862,31,"English","# Introduction\n## Research focus and significance\n# Background and scholarly debate\n## Civic engagement, mobilization, and political influence\n# Community context\n## Growth and dispersal of Latina/o immigrant communities","[{\"question\":\"What is the main research focus of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper investigates how Latina/o immigrant youth engage civically and how they form civic preparation and participation in the context of changing political and demographic conditions.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper emphasize the importance of immigrant youth civic engagement now?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that as immigration becomes central to US civic life and is contested amid recession and racism, young immigrant activists’ actions offer important, observable successes and insights for scholarship.\"},{\"question\":\"What broader claim does the paper make about civic boundaries and citizenship?\",\"answer\":\"It contends that the transnational and human-rights dimensions of Latina/o politics challenge traditional paradigms of borders and citizenship.\"}]","The Civic Education and Engagement of Latina/o Immigrant Youth - Challenging Boundaries and Creating Safe Spaces | PDF",1792061776,78]