Building safe community spaces for immigrant families, one library at a time

Authors

Max Vazquez, University of North Georgia
Denise Davila, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Silvia Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado, Boulder

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2018

Publication Title

Bank Street Occasional Paper Series

Volume

2018

Issue

39

First page number:

15

Abstract

In today’s political climate, supporting the needs of young children from Latinx immigrant families has become increasingly difficult at the community, institutional, state, and federal levels. This essay is about a group of Latinx families who participated in an innovative early literacy program at a county public library branch in the migration setting of the U.S. Southeast known as the New Latino Diaspora (Hamann, Wortham, Murillo, 2015). We describe the program and its role in building a safe and welcoming environment for Latinx students and their families. We include the voices of the librarian and parents who had never before participated in a family literacy series for Spanish-speaking immigrants. We conclude with a discussion about factors that foster an inclusive community space for educational experiences.

Language

eng

Repository Citation

Vazquez, M., Davila, D., Nogueron-Liu, S. (2018). Building safe community spaces for immigrant families, one library at a time. Bank Street Occasional Paper Series, 2018(39), 15.