Professor: Meylin Gonzales Huamán
School: Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Semester: Fall 2025

This junior tutorial examines Latinx immigration from a sociological perspective that approaches migration as a lifelong process starting from the context of origin in Latin America and continuing in the context of reception in the US. To this end, we will explore issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America, the origins of the Hispanic/Latino category in the US, transnational immigrant civic and political engagement and their political incorporation in the US. Students will have the opportunity to develop an original research project on a topic relevant to this course. The methodological focus will be qualitative interviews from an inductive research approach. Accordingly, from the third week of the course, students will conduct exploratory interviews on a broad topic they are interested in, which will then inform the research question that will guide their research question and subsequent data collection.

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