Aging in Urban Precarity: Community-Engaged Research with Older Latinx Immigrants

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Melanie Plasencia
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University

Title: “Aging in Urban Precarity: Community-Engaged Research with Older Latinx Immigrants”

Bio: Melanie Z. Plasencia, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University–Newark. She earned a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a multi-year César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College. Her research examines how older immigrants navigate aging amid poverty, declining health, limited access to social safety nets, and the intersecting forces of race, ethnicity, gender and class.

She is currently working on her first book manuscript, Aging on the Hudson, an ethnographic study of older Latino immigrants aging in an urban community across from Manhattan. She also leads a community-engaged research project in Paterson, New Jersey, through the Rutgers Hub for Aging Collaboration, partnering with grassroots organizations to better understand and address the everyday needs of older adults.

Her scholarship has appeared in Social Problems, The Gerontologist, Generations, and Inside Higher Ed. She is also a Ford Foundation Fellow and currently serves as membership chair for the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association. A committed educator and mentor, she teaches courses on aging, migration, race and inequality, and works to equip students with the tools to critically engage with the social issues shaping their communities.

Co-sponsored by: Department of Human Development and Family Science

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Research Support

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Lectures and Seminars

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Virtual

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Organizer

Aging Studies Institute

Contact

Katherine Hills
315.443.2703

kchills@syr.edu

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