Latin American Transnational Children and Youth

Victoria Derr, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where her teaching and research focus on the intersections between sustainable communities, place-based environmental education, and social justice, particularly in under-represented communities. Yolanda Corona holds a Ph.D. in Ethnohistory and is a professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Autonomous University of Mexico-Xochimilco. Her recent research and teaching include topics of children’s participation and children’s relationship with nature. She provides educational programs about children´s rights to teachers and cultural promoters.

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Perspectives on Place

1. Children’s Sense of Place in Transnational Contexts: La Querencia Explored

2. Love and Care for the Land among Children of a Traditional Indigenous Community

3. The Notion of Neighborhood: Children’s Perspectives on City and Sense of Place in Mexico City

4. The Relationship between Outdoor Nature and Latinx Children’s Sense of Place

5. Cultural Hybridities in the Multiethnic Enclave: Generational Perspectives on Neighborhood Identity in Wilshire Center, Los Angeles

Homeland, Belonging, and Transnational Identity

6. Belonging, Place, and Homeland Nostalgia

7. From the Cuchumatanes to the Plain of Flowers: Imagined Nature and Vivid Nature among Indigenous Children in Kuchumatán, Quintana Roo and Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, Mexico

8. In Transit: The Territory from a Child Migrant Experience

9. Across Transited Landscapes: Memories and Experiences of Terruño from Young Mexican Immigrants in the United States and Mexico

10. Ways of Being and Belonging: Latina Reflections on Development of Environmental Identities

Learning and Expressing Care

11. Rising Voices: Participatory and Anticolonial Frames for Realizing Young People’s Rights

12. In Defense of Mother Earth: Rebel Resistance of Zapatista Children in Chiapas, Mexico

13. Listening to Elders: Birds and Forests as Intergenerational Links for Nurturing Social-Ecological Memory in the Southern Andes

14. "When We Cut Them, They Feel Pain Too." Indigenous and Afro-Descendent Knowledges in Science Classrooms

15. The Emergence of Concern for the Natural Environment: Farm Worker Children, Pesticides, and Direct Experience in Nature

16. "I am an Ecomestizo": Significant Life Experiences of Latinx Environmental Professionals

17. From Paralysis to Activism: Climate Change and World Care by Young People

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