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Ya Llegamos | We Are Here, Audrey Hermila Salgado Jan 2023

Ya Llegamos | We Are Here, Audrey Hermila Salgado

Senior Projects Spring 2023

ya llegamos | we are here, a Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College, is piece on gender and migration. It is a play that explores how family dynamics, class issues, education, and gender play a role in why people leave their home country. It explores the journey and relationship of Saturnina and Francisco as they travel across the Mexico/U.S. border.


The Creation Of The Home: A Sociological And Literary Analysis Of Dominicanidad In Public Spaces Of Washington Heights And Within Dominican Literature, Mádoris Isabel Santana Figuereo Jan 2023

The Creation Of The Home: A Sociological And Literary Analysis Of Dominicanidad In Public Spaces Of Washington Heights And Within Dominican Literature, Mádoris Isabel Santana Figuereo

Senior Projects Spring 2023

“The Creation of the Home” is a study that puts in conversation theories within sociology of immigration, culture, nationality, urban studies, gentrification, and literature. These realms of study allow us to capture the trajectories of meaning making by Dominican Immigrants in New York City who lived in the homeland for the majority of their childhood. It shows that even when the physical home is endangered by larger structural forces such as economic precarity, gentrification, and displacement, Dominican immigrants continue to center their identity and cultural markers through symbolic recreations of the home. Dominican literature of the Diaspora shows us that …


The Traveling Serialized Adventures Of Kid Quixote: Rehumanizing The Experiences Of Immigrant Children During The Trump Administration, Jesuly M. Rosario Jan 2022

The Traveling Serialized Adventures Of Kid Quixote: Rehumanizing The Experiences Of Immigrant Children During The Trump Administration, Jesuly M. Rosario

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Plurinationalism, Interculturalism, And Rights Of Nature: A Look At Ecuador’S Indigenous Activism, Wynnter Faith Millsaps Jan 2021

Plurinationalism, Interculturalism, And Rights Of Nature: A Look At Ecuador’S Indigenous Activism, Wynnter Faith Millsaps

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Beyond Jair Bolsonaro: The Making Of Brazil’S Environmental Crisis, Emma E. Sandman Jan 2021

Beyond Jair Bolsonaro: The Making Of Brazil’S Environmental Crisis, Emma E. Sandman

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Llamas No Son Ovejas The Pervasive Impacts Of Colonization On Indigenous Peoples Labor Market Choices In Peru: An Examination Of Exclusionary Institutions Through Sociohistorical And Economic Lenses, Molly Jeanne Devine Jan 2021

Llamas No Son Ovejas The Pervasive Impacts Of Colonization On Indigenous Peoples Labor Market Choices In Peru: An Examination Of Exclusionary Institutions Through Sociohistorical And Economic Lenses, Molly Jeanne Devine

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Using historical and empirical evidence, this Senior Project looks at the long-term impacts of colonization on economic, social, and cultural institutions. This project explores impacts both immediately upon Spanish arrival in 1532, and created during the Spanish colonization of Peru. Systems of forced labor created through colonization created two separate paths of development: one for the Spanish and Spanish-selected Peruvian elite and another for the Indigenous people of Peru. Vestiges of the Spanish colonization of Peru continue to manifest themselves in modern times in many ways. This Senior Project examines the link between Indigenous individuals and their participation in the …


Time Is A Construct(Ion): Heritage And Becoming In Quito's Historic District, Samuel Abate Jan 2020

Time Is A Construct(Ion): Heritage And Becoming In Quito's Historic District, Samuel Abate

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Family Separation Along The Us/Mexico Southwest Border: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Trauma, Human Rights And Childhood Needs, Christina G. Secor Jan 2020

Family Separation Along The Us/Mexico Southwest Border: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Trauma, Human Rights And Childhood Needs, Christina G. Secor

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing of Bard College.


Hasta Que Haya Justicia: Responses To The 2014 Forced Disappearance Of The Students Of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Olivia Mozdzierz Jan 2020

Hasta Que Haya Justicia: Responses To The 2014 Forced Disappearance Of The Students Of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Olivia Mozdzierz

Senior Projects Fall 2020

This paper examines responses to the 2014 forced disappearance of 43 university students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero by Mexican authorities and criminals working together, for reasons that remain unknown. Rather than accept the losses as yet another consequence of official corruption and impunity, Mexican civil society rebelled. The people sustained protests, enlisted the support of international organizations, and exposed the government’s crimes and attempted cover-up. This study concludes that, despite the failure in the following years to locate the missing and bring the perpetrators to justice, the victims’ families and their allies demonstrated their power to hold the government to account …


Another Massacre In Mexico, Sidney B. Smith Jan 2019

Another Massacre In Mexico, Sidney B. Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Who Was The Man In Mexico? The Degree To Which The Mexican State Enjoyed Autonomy And Sovereignty With Respect To Its National And International Relationships From 1958 To 1964, Sebastian Carrasco Jan 2018

Who Was The Man In Mexico? The Degree To Which The Mexican State Enjoyed Autonomy And Sovereignty With Respect To Its National And International Relationships From 1958 To 1964, Sebastian Carrasco

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Climate Control: The Case Of Chilean Destabilization, Andrew Arlotto Jan 2018

Climate Control: The Case Of Chilean Destabilization, Andrew Arlotto

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Asilo Para Las Mujeres: The Hesitation To Recognize Women As A Particular Social Group Under U.S. Asylum Legislation And Its Effects On The Central American Migrant Crisis Of Women, Yamilet Eliezet Cortes Gil Jan 2018

Asilo Para Las Mujeres: The Hesitation To Recognize Women As A Particular Social Group Under U.S. Asylum Legislation And Its Effects On The Central American Migrant Crisis Of Women, Yamilet Eliezet Cortes Gil

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Under U.S. Asylum Law a person can seek protection by proving that they have been subject to persecution on account of their : 1) political opinion 2) race 3) religion 4) nationality 5) membership in a particular social group (Nexus)[1]. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Federal Circuit Courts, and the Supreme Court continue to hesitate to establish “women” as a particular social group that faces persecution. The current Central American migrant crisis of women is the first challenge of this magnitude to U.S. asylum law rethinking its stance on qualifying women as a particular social group. I …


How Did The Shift In Chilean Cultural Memory Between 1988 To 1998 Become Politically Salient For International Human Rights?, Elena Ann Botts Jan 2018

How Did The Shift In Chilean Cultural Memory Between 1988 To 1998 Become Politically Salient For International Human Rights?, Elena Ann Botts

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Tainted Ideals: The Rise And Fall Of The Tupamaros, Jennifer Ann Dufau Jan 2017

Tainted Ideals: The Rise And Fall Of The Tupamaros, Jennifer Ann Dufau

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Carbon Stocks In Shade Coffee: Strategies For Enhancing Carbon Storage In Smallholder Systems In Jinotega, Nicaragua, Vanessa Katheryn Kichline Jan 2017

Carbon Stocks In Shade Coffee: Strategies For Enhancing Carbon Storage In Smallholder Systems In Jinotega, Nicaragua, Vanessa Katheryn Kichline

Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Climate change has recently shifted focus to adaptation and mitigation strategies in coffee production. Shade coffee systems, already widely recognized for their contribution to biodiversity and soil conservation, are now drawing attention for their role in carbon storage. Researchers have generally assumed that high carbon storage must come at the expense of reduced crop yields, implying that farmers must choose between sustainability and profit. This study uses field inventories of 70 farms in Jinotega, Nicaragua to estimate this tradeoff in smallholder shade coffee systems. Field inventories were used to develop three typologies representing different shade management strategies in use in …


Reframing The Ofrenda, An Analysis Of Material Culture Through The Death Cult Of Mexico, Xochitl Tarcila Salazar Jan 2017

Reframing The Ofrenda, An Analysis Of Material Culture Through The Death Cult Of Mexico, Xochitl Tarcila Salazar

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


The Transformation Of Self In Everyday Life: How Undocumented Latino Youth Perform Citizenship, Caley Emmaline Cross Jan 2016

The Transformation Of Self In Everyday Life: How Undocumented Latino Youth Perform Citizenship, Caley Emmaline Cross

Senior Projects Spring 2016

The purpose of this extended case study is to determine what institutional, social and cultural factors contribute to undocumented Latino youth identity formation. Based on one month of qualitative interviews and participant observation at Peachtree University, a modern day freedom school for undocumented youth in Georgia, I examine how undocumented Latino youth identity evolves within state and societal pressures, and the formation of a commitment to activism through these youths’ experiences. Taken as a whole, this study traces the transformation undocumented Latino youth make from a position of social and political exclusion to actively claiming rights, recognition, and inclusion in …


The Reality Of A Caribbean Paradise: A Historical Overview Of Japanese Immigration To The Dominican Republic, Amy Yanet Mariano Jan 2016

The Reality Of A Caribbean Paradise: A Historical Overview Of Japanese Immigration To The Dominican Republic, Amy Yanet Mariano

Senior Projects Spring 2016


Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.