In gentrifying places, people of color are often portrayed as displaced and evicted with little agency. However, while some people of color may be forced to leave their gentrifying neighborhood, others may choose to stay. Sociologist Miguel Montalva Barba will explore how people of color make sense of their gentrifying neighborhood. He will conduct interviews with African American and Latine residents of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as analyze archival data and data from the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Corporation for his study.
Approximately 7.7 million Venezuelans have been forced to migrate to escape widespread human rights violations, crime, hyperinflation, scarcity of food and essential goods, and a deteriorated healthcare system. In response, governments in the Americas have passed various legalization programs to legally integrate Venezuelan migrants. However, these policies vary in their inclusivity and provide uneven access to lawful permanent residency and citizenship.
The achievement gap between high- and low-income students has grown since 1970. One possible factor could be the growth of funds provided by school-supporting non-profits (SSNPs), including parent-teacher associations/organizations (PTA/PTOs) and booster clubs. More common in high-income areas, SSNPs may improve student outcomes by augmenting activities funded by school districts or by funding opportunities they do not provide.
Little is known about the extent to which changing racial demographics over the past decade has shifted disciplinary practices and students’ racialized experiences in schools. Sociologists Jennifer Candipan and Chantal Hailey will combine school zone shapefiles with national data from the Census and Civil Rights Database Collection (CRDC) to explore how growth in Black and Latino populations in neighborhoods is associated with changes in racial disparities in school discipline.