Immigration & Homelessness
| IMMIGRATION & HOMELESSNESS |
| Sonia Barrios Tinoco is associate professor of Spanish and chair of the Modern Languages and Cultures Department at Seattle University. She was born in Venezuela where she studied Literature at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and then earned her Spanish Literature master’s Degree at Washington State University and a Hispanic Languages and Literatures Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Her main area of study lies in marginalized and out of the law subjects, hence she has published essays such as “Reconceptualizing the ‘American Dream’ for Undocumented Immigrants: The Yearning for a Lost Sense of Family, Identity and Belonging”; “The Construction of Identity through Violence: Joaquín Murrieta’s Corrido,” “Maria Moura, a woman outlaw,” among others. She is also deeply invested in migration studies and for ten years has been teaching a course entitled “Buscando visa para un sueño”: Cultural products on (Ill)legal Immigration. |
Links for You to Consider
- The Connection Between Homelessness, Immigration, and Displacement Links to an external site.
- A Broken Dream: Homelessness & Immigrants Links to an external site.
- Shadow City: Homelessness in New York | Fault Lines Links to an external site.
Centering Wisdom |
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Reflection: Paying a little kindness forward can make us all feel better. Especially for people experiencing homelessness, a friendly gesture can brighten their day; contribute a sense of dignity; and help them fight the isolation, depression and embarrassment they face every day. Here are 10 ways you can practice a little kindness provided by the National Health Foundation Links to an external site. |
Activity: Imagine you and your family were just told that you have 10 minutes to vacate your home. You can take only whatever you can fit into a backpack. What things would you take with you? What things would be hard to leave behind? Why did you choose the items you took and left behind? How did it feel to make your choices? How will you do without the things you left behind? Where will you get the things you need but no longer have? |