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Veronica Escobar Olivo

0000-0003-2064-8536

Research Associate (Education; Race and ethnic relations; Sociological methodology and research methods)

Toronto, Canada

Veronica Escobar Olivo obtained a Masters in Immigration and Settlement Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her areas of interest include equity and belonging, Latin American and Caribbean diasporas in Canada, violence against women and children, decoloniality and epistemologies of the South, and sociological feminism. Her current body of research explores the experiences of othering of Latin American and Caribbean youth in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), specifically in the education, judicial, immigration, and child protection systems. She currently works as a Research Associate for the Rights of Children and Youth Partnership, based out of Toronto Metropolitan University.

Publications

  • Latinx Youth's Experiences in the Ontario Education System: Race, Invisibility, and Capital
  • “I Just Want to Belong Somewhere”: Latinx Youth’s Experiences in the Education System in Ontario, Canada
  • Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada
  • COVID-19 and Venezuelan Refugees
  • Explorando el sistema de protección de la niñez en El Salvador
  • “I don’t want anyone to follow my path:” Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Dominican Republic
  • The Settlement experience of Salvadoran refugees
  • Our Daughters: Central American Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Gender of Caring
  • “Do white parents feel the same?”: Latin American and Black Caribbean parents fighting for participation in partnership-oriented education
  • “I Feel Like I Was Targeted:” Black Youth Navigating Policing in Ontario, Canada
  • Understanding the Over-representation of Latin American children in Ontario child welfare services
  • Understanding the Over-representation of Latin American children in Ontario child welfare services
  • “Parents don’t know they have the option to say no”: the experiences of Caribbean and Latin American parents navigating special education in Ontario
  • “Our community needs to heal”: Using Photovoice to Explore Intergenerational Memories of Civil War with Young Central Americans in Toronto
  • The Overrepresentation of Latin American Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System : Findings from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019
  • The Overrepresentation of Latin American Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System : Findings from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019

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Henry Parada

Graduate Program Director & Cross-Appointed Professor - Toronto, Canada

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