Learning through Service: Migration in the Spanish-Language Classroom
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2025
Publication Title
Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media
Abstract
People migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A phenomenon that has real, lived effects on individuals and communities, migration also carries symbolic, ideological significance. Its depiction in literature, film, and other media powerfully shapes worldviews, identities, attitudes toward migrants, and a political landscape that is both local and global. It is imperative, then, to connect the disciplinary and theoretical tools we have for understanding migration and to put them in conversation with students’ experiences.
Featuring a wide range of classroom approaches, this volume brings together topics that are often taught separately, including tourism, slavery, drug cartels, race, whiteness, settler colonialism, the Arab Spring, assimilation, and disability. Readers are introduced to terminology and legal frameworks and to theories of migration in relation to Black studies, ethnic studies, Asian American studies, Latinx studies, border studies, postcolonial studies, and Indigenous studies.
Recommended Citation
Velazquez, Megan, "Learning through Service: Migration in the Spanish-Language Classroom" (2025). 2025 Faculty Bibliography. 28.
https://collected.jcu.edu/fac_bib_2025/28
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