White-Collar Migrants: Labor and Poverty in the Religious Academy

La Comunidad is hosting a roundtable session on the annual meeting theme, “La labor de nuestras manos,” featuring Latinx leaders in higher education reflecting on the distinct challenges facing Latinx faculty in the academy. The goal is to address the issue of economic justice by bringing institutional missional commitments in line with hiring practices and challenging the dominant corporatization of higher education to value the inherent dignity of Latinx labor. Recognizing that Latinx faculty are more likely to end up in adjunct or other contingent faculty positions, panelists will reflect on issues ranging from unionization efforts to gender inequity to the creation of a new permanent underclass in higher education we have chosen to call “white-collar migrants.”