Advancing Social Science Scholarship and Teaching on Latino Youth and Families

Faculty Lead: Deborah Rivas-Drake

This Think-Act Thank aims to establish an interdisciplinary working group of scholars focusing on Latino youth and families. This group will bring together faculty from various U-M social science departments (e.g., Education, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work) who are already conducting scholarship on Latino youth and families but who have not had an opportunity to think and work collectively on their scholarly pursuits. The group will meet regularly with the purpose of stimulating dialogue around issues in their research, supporting faculty in conducting high quality research with Latino participants, facilitating and developing new research collaborations, building networks with colleagues at other institutions who will be invited to present cutting-edge scholarship, and producing a collaborative scholarly publication that may be an edited book or a journal special issue. Specific thematic topics (e.g., immigration/migration, parenting and cultural values, etc.) will be identified over the course of the group's activities.