2015 Springdale March against Violence

This research is guided by a theoretical approach that frames structure and agency as mutually constitutive elements to explain the relationship between the larger society and social actors. This scholarship focuses on settlement patterns of Latina/os and migrants in the U.S. South. It seeks insight into how larger social forces affect Latino and migrant mobility, ascertaining the extent to which these social actors assert their agency to engage larger power differences on the basis of race, citizenship, and gender. This distinct strand to approaching theory and research is underlined in The Southern Latina/o and Migrant Voices Project. Built from ethnographic and visual exploration data, this study is a community-based effort intended to study and document Southern Latino and migrant experiences through a Life and Visual Archive. It gathers and organizes a collection of in-depth interviews and visual materials around selective themes to vocalize participants’ life events through a diverse array of critical perspectives.