Faculty Enrichment: "When Parents Don’t Have Papers: The Experiences of Citizen Young Adults in Latino Mixed-Status Families" by Cassaundra Rodriguez

Cassaundra Rodriguez earned her doctorate degree in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She specializes in the areas of immigration and citizenship, race and gender, and family. In particular, her research primarily tackles questions on (1) how citizenship and race are constructed in media and public discourse, and (2) how belonging is negotiated and claimed in immigrant and Latinx communities. Currently, she is working on a book project that centers on how members of Mexican mixed-status families – that is families that include U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants -  experience belonging and manage illegality in their lives.

Dr. Rodriguez has received grant funding from the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity where she is also a NCID Diversity Scholar. Her research articles have been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The Sociological Quarterly, and Sociology Compass.

Please join UNLV Professor Rodriguez's Faculty Enrichment lecture on Thursday, April 11, 2019. Lunch will be served.

Registration is required. Please RSVP HERE