Student Worker - Romero and the New Migration
Student Worker - Romero and the New Migration
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Job Title: Student Worker - Romero and the New Migration
Job Classification: Lab and Research Support Student
Department: Honors College
Hiring Manager: Autumn Henneke
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Work Schedule: Max 10 hours per week
Desired Length of Employment: Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Pay Rate: $10/hr
Job Description:
Since 2014 more than one million children and families have sought asylum in the United States from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala El Salvador and Honduras. This migration differs from the kind of migration typically seen along the southern U.S. border as more Central Americans now see Mexico and the United States as their preferred destination and as migration is increasingly driven by families and children seeking protection (asylum) as opposed to economic migration. This work draws upon the life and thought of martyred El Salvadoran Archbishop scar Romero to argue that this new migrationdriven by the ordinary violence of landlessness along with urban and rural poverty; by the rise of gang social and gender-based violence; and by the pressures climate change puts upon smallholder farmingshould be seen in relationship to older forms of violence and migration patterns. The project argues that the response to this crisis is the advocacy of a twofold right: the right not to migrate for people to be able to live in safety and dignity in their homes; and the right to migrate when those conditions are not met. This twofold right though seemingly contradictory ultimately derives from the belief that God gives creation in common for the survival and flourishing of all people.
Contributing to annotated bibliographies on the right to migrate the right not to migrate and the link between coercive violence and migration in Central America. Compiling data and creating charts on migration from Central America to Mexico and the United States over time (including by country gender and unaccompanied children) and social factors leading to migration (violence poverty etc.). Assistance in formatting and confirming quotations/citations to prepare the manuscript for publication.
Employer: Baylor University
Work Location: Draper
Work Address: 1420 S Seventh St. Waco
Employment Type
Part-Time
