Category: Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Kristin Yarris Publishes “Care Across Generations Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families”

Assistant Professor of International Studies Kristin E. Yarris has just published her book, Care Across Generations, with Stanford University Press. Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children. Some determine that migration in…

Study finds microfinance can help, even if goals aren’t met

Pictured is Erin Beck.

Editor’s Note: Erin Beck is a long-time CSWS affiliate and co-coordinator of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group. Source: Study finds microfinance can help, even if goals aren’t met | Around the O August 7, 2017—UO political scientist Erin Beck…

Cultural Adaptation of Career Development Intervention for Latina Immigrant Partner Violence Survivors

Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Diamond Lake Room Room 119 Faculty Research Series: Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) “Cultural Adaptation of Career Development Intervention for Latina Immigrant Partner Violence Survivors” Dr. Krista Chronister, Professor, Counseling Psychology, School of…

Roundtable will address immigrant and refugee rights issues

Roundtable will address immigrant and refugee rights issues | Around the O April 10, 2017 (From Around the O) — With plight of immigrants and refugees an issue of rising concern, the UO Center for the Study of Women in…

Fractional Freedoms: CSWS to Celebrate Director Michelle McKinley’s New Book

On May 25, CSWS will celebrate the release of Director Michelle McKinley’s book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, October 2016). The book explores domestic slavery and what Professor McKinley terms “fractional…

CLLAS Receives Tinker Foundation Grant for Graduate Student Funding

University of Oregon is Now a Tinker University The Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation <http://www.tinker.org> has approved a matching grant of $10,000—renewable for three years—to the University of Oregon to initiate a Tinker Field Research Grants Program within…