Dr. Negrón-Gonzales will talk about the killing of three teenage boys – Sergio Adrían Hernández Guereca, José Antonio Elena Rodríguez and Cruz Marcelino Velasquez Acevedo – at the US-Mexico border between 2010 and 2013. Through an examination of these murders at the hands of US Border Patrol and Customs and Border Enforcement Agents, she will discuss how these killings demonstrate that not all children are afforded the so-called universal protection of childhood. She will also draw the connection to the deportation regime, and her 15+ years of researching undocumented young people, to discuss the politics of children's suffering at the border and under the inhumane immigration system.
Bio: Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the School of Education and affiliate faculty in the Migration Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of education and immigration and speaks across the nation on issues related to diversity, equity, higher education and immigrant rights. Raised on the U.S.-Mexico border, Negrón-Gonzales has been working with, supporting, and researching the lives of
undocumented youth for the past fifteen years in multiple capacities: as a student affairs professional, a researcher, and as an activist.
Dr. Negrón-Gonzales’ work has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Harvard Educational Review, Latino Studies, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, The Journal of Latinos and Education, and Jesuit Higher Education. She is a co-author of Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (2016, UC Press), co-editor of We Are Not
Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theoerize Undocumented Life in the United States (Duke University Press, 2020), and co-author of The Latina/o/x Guide to Graduate School (Duke University Press, 2023).
Co-Sponsors: Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Undocumented Student Services
