Folge 76: Migration in the Americas – Children on the Move - Soledad Álvarez Velasco, University of Illinois Chicago

Unaccompanied migrant children from Central and South America are
coming to the United States in record numbers, often driven by
economic desperation made worse by the pandemic. In the last two
years, 250,000 children have crossed the Mexican border into the
United States, and only a third of them reunited with their
parents. Many of them end up in grueling jobs that ignore child
labor laws, a situation that has recently attracted immense media
attention.  On this episode of the HCA podcast, Anja Schüler
talks to Soledad Alvarez Velasco,  a social anthropologist
and human geographer at the University of Illinois Chicago, about
the shifting dynamics of child migration in the Americas.