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Professor Anita Casavantes Bradford

Anita

Professor, Chicano Latino Studies and History, University of California Irvine, United States

Email: acasavan@uci.edu

Profile

Anita Casavantes Bradford is associate professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and History at the University of California Irvine. A historian of childhood, immigration, race and ethnicity, foreign relations, and critical refugee studies, her current book, Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States, was released by University of North Carolina Press in June 2022; it is the first comprehensive historical analysis of unaccompanied child migration to the United States from 1930 to present day. Her previous book, The Revolution is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014.

Research

Expertise

History of childhood, immigration, race and ethnicity, foreign relations and critical refugee studies.
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