TY - JOUR AU - Collins-Dogrul, Julie PY - 2015/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Transnational Migration and Latina/o Communities Syllabus JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/transnational-migration-and-latinao-communities SP - AB - This course helps students examine transnational migration and its effects on communities in the United States and Latin America. The geographical focus is transnational communities that span the United States and the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. The course includes multiple ethnographic assignments that help students explore, analyze, and engage with local transnational communities. The course includes journal articles and three books. The journal articles develop theory and provide empirical analyses of transnational migration using multiple methodologies. Enrique’s Journey, written by Los Angeles Times journalist Sonia Nazario, explores the hardship of transnational love and family by telling the story of a child in Honduras trying to reunite with his immigrant mother in the United States. Translation Nation, by Hector Tobar, another Los Angeles Times journalist, examines how immigrants are creating a new America. The Transnational Villagers is a theoretically rigorous monograph written by sociologist Peggy Levitt about transnational politics, culture, and family in the Dominican Republic and Boston. ER -