Beschreibung:
Karina O. Alvarado is a lecturer in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at UCLA. Her articles on U.S. Central American, Chicana/o and Latina/o literature have been published in Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Latino Studies.
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility - yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States.