Anthropology Alum Michelle Statz Launches Youth Circulations Website

Michele Statz (LUC Anthropology B.S., 2005) and Lauren Heidbrink are proud to announce the launch of their website, Youth Circulations (www.youthcirculations.com). As anthropologists who research unaccompanied child migration, Heidbrink and Statz recognize a glaring disconnect between the nuanced, transnational lives of the young people with whom they work and the active reduction of these youth into abbreviated tropes--vulnerable victim, delinquent, violent threat, and so--in policy reports and the media. They’ve created Youth Circulations to draw attention to the ways in which these representations delimit and decontextualize young migrants, as well as to highlight active counter-points, occasions in which youth are portrayed or self-represent as agentive, skilled, creative and relational actors. Youth Circulations aims to be a helpful resource for scholars, students and policy-makers.