Inside a cardboard box, Mama packed a tin of chicken soup, heavy on cilantro, along with a jar of peppermint tea, peppers from our garden, and a hunk of white goat cheese that smelled like Uncle...

This article builds on previous scholarship on Julia Alvarez’s Finding Miracles (2004) and Return to Sender (2009) to explore the educational potential...

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the way in which unaccompanied children who, for various reasons, embark on the “road to the North” aboard La Bestia...

This essay explores the notion of violence in Yo tuve un sueño: El viaje de los niños centroamericanos a Estados Unidos by Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos...