Mental Health, Youth and Immigration: Book Talk with Daniel Jenks
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Join us for a discussion with Daniel Jenks, co-author of 鈥淩eunited; Central American Youth and Family Separation鈥�. Focusing on mental health and immigration, symptoms of PTSD and depression among Central American youth who migrate to reunite with family.
Book Talk: 鈥淩eunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration鈥� sociologists Ernesto Casta帽eda and Daniel Jenks explain the reasons for Central American youth migration, describe the journey, and document how minors experienced separation from their families and their subsequent reunification. Specifically telling the stories of youth and families settling in the DC area, the book shows how reunifications imply many separations over years and years, and how reunification as a process is socially informed.
The discussion will focus on chapter 6 of the book 鈥淢ental Health and Immigration: Symptoms of PTSD and Depression鈥� spotlighting how the experience of long-term separation, hardships in their country of origin, and the trauma and stress of their own migration journey and their legal statuses weigh on their mental health post-migration.
About The Author
Daniel Jenks
Daniel Jenks is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Jenks current research engages disaster, migration, and climate change using mixed methods.
Jenks co-authored book, Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2024.
Prior to Penn, Daniel Jenks worked as a Survey Analyst at Mathematica and as the Deputy Director of the Immigration Lab at American University. He holds BA and MA degrees in Sociology from American University, as well as an MA in Sociology from Penn.
This event is sponsored by the聽Hispanic Serving Institution Task Force.
For more information, please contact Sandra Castro at 聽scastro@adelphi.edu.