... Alicia Schmidt Camacho calls on us to consider migrant melancholia as a framework for understanding not only the material consequences of immigration but also its psychological toll. Schmidt Camacho also invites us to see these narratives as political acts against the substantive erosion...

... to consider how the notion of radical health developed throughout this book extends to literary engagements with mental health. In the work of Grande, Díaz, Zamora, and Cornejo, migrant parents are often as traumatized as their children. Excavating this trauma, Grande, Díaz, Zamora, and Cornejo offer not only...

... This chapter examines three recent documentaries that focus on the children of migrant workers and their access to education. These documentaries include Jocelyn Ford’s Nowhere to Call Home , Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home , and Ji Dan’s When the Bough Breaks . These films dramatize conflicts...

... of the region—tells the story of one such young migrant. In the city, he resorts to begging, playing music for money, and carrying loads in the market. Like many highland peasants in this period, he travels as an agricultural settler ( colonizador ) to the subtropical lowlands, where land was available...