21028 - Latinx Professionals: An Intersectional Lens on Professional Pathways

Description

How are Latinx professionals managing their careers amidst the complex policy climate? Historically, Latinx labor force participation has investigated the relationship between migration policy, worker rights, and migrant social and economic outcomes with a tendency to focus on low-income manual labor. However, a growing number of studies examine the experiences of college-educated Latinx professionals. Together, the rapidly growing and class-diverse Latinx populations in the U.S., the relatively young age of Latinx populations, the growing number of Latinxs obtaining college and professional degrees, and policy and scholarly debates regarding who fits within the “Latino/x/e” category raise the following question: what can the experience of Latinx professionals teach us about the structural changes within workplaces, the contentious policies around immigration and workplace diversity, and the global political economy? The panelists present varied case studies to answer different dimensions of this question. The future of work would be incomplete without detailing the complex experiences of Latinx professionals in different work contexts.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Karina Santellano, Arizona State University-Tempe

Individual Presentations

• Panethnicity in the Professions: The Importance of Disaggregating Latinidades in Workplaces - Glenda M. Flores, University of California Irvine

• Middle-Class Latinxs’ Work-Related Lessons to Their Children - Lorena Garcia, University of Illinois-Chicago

• Latino STEM Pathways: Education, Professionalization, and Community - José A. Muñoz, California State Univ-San Bernardino

• Marginalization at Work: Latinx Professionals Entering Entrepreneurship - Karina Santellano, Arizona State University-Tempe

• How Afro-Latinx Professionals Navigate Ethnoracial Exclusions - Pamela Zabala Ortiz, Boston University

Session Organizer

• Melissa Victoria Abad, Stanford University