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• 2003

  University of Arizona

  Binational Migration Institute

  Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary

  Prehistory

  Border

  PI

  Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of their Experiencies

  Course taught (Spring Semester): Womens Activism and Organizations (WS496/596)

  \n Gender and Contemporary Society (INDV 102-2)

  Prehistory

  As an assistant professor at the University of Arizona

  I teach undergraduate and graduate classes

  mentor students

  conduct research

  look for research funding

  serve on committees (e.g. masters and Ph.D. students)

  read alot

  grade a lot of papers

  ... all while trying to keep in touch and serve communities outside the university.

  University of Arizona

  Assistant Research Social Scientist

  Border

  Binational Migration Institute (BMI)

  University of Arizona

  The Binational Migration Institute (BMI) is an association of scholars engaged in researching the impact of border enforcement and immigration control policies on Latino communities. More about these activities are on the BMI website at http://bmi.arizona.edu

  Co-Director

  Courses taught: Exploring Nonwestern Cultures (ANT 112)

  Human Evolution and

  Pima Community College

  Adjunct Faculty

  Pima Community College

  Binational Migration Institute

  University of Arizona

  Pilot study: Family Separation and Child Welfare Protocols in Mixed-Immigration Status Immigrant\n Households\n\n2008-2009 Principal Investigator for PIMSA-funded project: A Multidisciplinary Binational Study of Migrant Women in the Context of a U.S. Mexico Border Reproductive Health\n Care Continuum

  Principal Investigator

  This project is in progress.

  Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of their Experiencies

  Graduate Research Assistant

  PI

  Professor and Dept. Head

  University of Arizona

  President

  Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary

  Spanish

  English

  University of Arizona

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Dissertation title: \"Investment in Female Education as an Economic Strategy among U.S.-Mexican Households

  Anthropology

  Eastern Arizona College

  Associate of Arts (AA)

  Political Science

  Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology

  and Bachelors Degree in Political Science

  Cultural Anthropology

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  Teaching

  Instructional Design

  Gender

  Curriculum Design

  Research

  History

  Higher Education

  Policy Analysis

  Applied Anthropology

  Urban Politics

  Grant Writing

  Latinas’ Practices of Emergence: Between Cultural Narratives and Globalization on the U.S.-Mexico Border

  Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea

  Norma E. Gonzalez

  In this article

  we attempt to map out the “in-between” space between global and cultural narratives that mediates women's educational trajectories. Case studies of women living on the U.S.–Mexico border make visible these spaces

  sites of “practices of emergence”: the practices that emerge from incommensurable economic demands and social prescriptions and produced in the act of social survival. In negotiating both global and cultural narratives

  materially and ideologically

  the occupants and ideas that inhabit these spaces are in constant flux

  resulting in the reformulation of the notions of mothering

  pedagogy

  and place

  resulting in variable educational outcomes for women

  Latinas’ Practices of Emergence: Between Cultural Narratives and Globalization on the U.S.-Mexico Border

  Azucena Sanchez

  In this paper we use some of the results of a binational study of immigrant women’s reproductive health care strategies to show how emerging anti-immigrant policies in Arizona adversely impact more than the beleaguered undocumented immigrants that are singled out for exclusion. We do this by taking into account how such policies impact mixed immigration status households

  domestic units in which the immigration status of members vary.

  “Mixed Immigration Status Households in the Context of Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Policies.”

  Purpose – Examined here are some of the tenets of social capital in the context of the migrants’ crossing the U.S.–Mexico border without official authorization. Using this context helps identify how social capital development is weakened by the structural and gendered dimensions of migration

  contributing to the rise in undocumented border crosser deaths since 1993.\n\nApproach – A selection of published works provide an overview of social capital

  and in particular

  how the framework has been used to further our understanding of the process of migration and immigrant settlement in new destinations. The principles of social capital are then examined in light of women's border crossing experiences and used to argue that migrants from emerging migrant-sending states in southern and central Mexico have had less time to accumulate resource-enhancing migration-related social capital. The narratives of repatriated women collected during research on the border in 2006–2007 are used to illustrate how controlling environments undermine the acquisition of social capital at a critical time.\n\nFindings – The selection of narratives of women who were repatriated after attempting to cross into the United States without authorization illustrate the perilous interplay of hardening border enforcement and multiplying illicit border smuggling organizations. The outcome is the downward leveling of social capital on the border that potentially poses greater life-threatening risks for migrants.\n\nOriginality/value – This study provides a theoretical understanding that can be used to explain rising levels of violence along the U.S.–Mexico border that increasingly engulf migrants fleeing poverty in Mexico.

  Of Coyotes

  Cooperation

  and Capital

  Interviews with women at the Albergue San Juan Bosco highlight an intersection as a place where opposite processes converge

  not only theoretically but in concrete terms as well. In part

  being caught in the intersection can be understood by the fact that for decades

  the United States’ need for labor and the desire for family reunification have been historically central to decisions to migrate.

  In the Footsteps of Spirits: Migrant Women’s Testimonios in a Time of Heightened Border Enforcement

  This paper summarizes quantitative and qualitative findings from a 1999 study of Mexican-origin households in Nogales

  Arizona. It finds that women's educational progress is facilitated by social support and

  even more important

  that a household's investment in the education of its members is significantly raised with an increase in the education level of the female head of household. It argues that systematic efforts to build on existent cultural frameworks of social support will promote women's educational progress and thus help improve educational opportunities for all people of Mexican origin.

  Social Exchange Practices among Mexican-origin Women in Nogales

  Arizona: Prospects for Education Acquisition

  This two-volume reference work addresses the dynamic lives of undocumented immigrants in the United States and establishes these individuals' experiences as a key part of our nation's demographic and sociological evolution.

  Undocumented Immigrants in the United States An Encyclopedia of Their Experience

  Arizona Senate Bill 1108

  the “anti–ethnic studies bill

  ” proposed to eliminate ethnic studies programs and ethnic-based organizations from state-funded education. Along with other anti-immigrant legislation

  this bill is creating an oppressive climate of discrimination against individuals of Mexican descent in Arizona. This study investigates the impact of SB 1108 on the mental well-being of Mexican-descent undergraduate students and examines protective factors such as ethnic identity

  civic engagement

  and individual coping responses (engaged and disengaged). Ninety-nine undergraduates who self-identified as Mexican

  Mexican American

  or Chicana/o completed an online survey. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis indicates that greater stress due to SB 1108 was significantly associated with lower self-esteem and more depressive symptoms. Engaged coping responses to SB 1108 protected students’ self-esteem even at high levels of stress; in contrast

  students who felt high stress but were not engaged had significantly lower self-esteem. Our results also indicate that a positive ethnic identity

  based on knowledge of cultural history and traditions

  is a significant protective factor. Thus

  while legislation such as the anti–ethnic studies bill may have a negative impact on the mental well-being of youth

  it may also make them stronger as they become academically and civically engaged in response.

  Chicana/o Students’ Respond to “Anti-Ethnic Studies” Bill 1108: Civic Engagement

  Ethnic Identity and Well-being

  In this paper

  the data gathered in 2004 and 2005 by the Coalición de Derechos Humanos (Derechos)

  a Tucson Arizona community-based human rights organization is summarized and analyzed within the framework of “Petit Apartheid.” The organization provides a much-needed service by assisting members of the Mexican-origin community

  many of which are undocumented workers

  file grievances against their employers. This is an important first step in making visible the routine unfair treatment of a virtually invisible workforce. The framework for analysis is useful because it centers on microaggressions: the “everyday instances of harm” that law enforcement agents inflict on members of racialized groups. I argue that the routine harsh and harmful treatment to which undocumented workers are systematically subjected is similarly a product of social attitudes that methodologically deprive them of employment stability and social progress and is therefore apartheid-like. Narratives from the Derechos archives flesh out the social spaces conducive to microaggression

  and at a broader level

  make visible the contradictions between employment practices and immigration law. Although too often in ignored in state and national immigration debates

  the voices emerging from these narratives illustrate how differences and inequality are informally enforced by way of employer-employee exchanges.

  Petit Apartheid in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: An Analysis of Community Organization Data Documenting Work force Abuses of the Undocumented

  Sanchez

  Azucena

  Although the seeds of legislated restrictions for immigrants can be traced to 1994 with California's unsuccessful Prop 187

  more recent trends epitomized by Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 signed into law in April 2010 have renewed concerns about the impact of such policies on the life and livelihood of immigrant communities. We argue that in Arizona

  emerging anti-immigrant policies that by design single out undocumented immigrants for exclusion grossly neglect important historical and geographical factors that have resulted in the prevalence of mixed immigration status households: domestic units in which the immigration status of at least one member is different from the others. As such

  this feature of social organization will make the implementation of such policies untenable.

  Anti-Immigrant Arizona: Ripple Effects and Mixed Immigration Status Households under 'Policies of Attrition' Considered

  In efforts to avoid detection by border enforcement agents

  undocumented migrants from Latin America often risk life and limb to enter the U.S. Most commonly

  they walk two to four days through an inhospitable desert in hopes of being picked up and whisked away to their final destination. Cost in human lives not withstanding

  the price of this venture correlates to increased border enforcement. Interviews with repatriated migrant women on the border helps uncover this economic “underbelly” of transnational movement in what I dub the ABCs of migration costs: those related to assembling

  bajadores (border bandits)

  and coyotes.

  The ABCs of Unauthorized Border Crossing Costs: Assembling

  Bajadores

  and Coyotes

  Interviews with migrant women have provided greater understanding not only of migrants’ encounters with U.S. immigration enforcement agents

  but also of the broader economic and social environments in which migration takes place. These experiences have been analyzed in order to render as complete a portrait as possible of migrant women who are temporarily suspended in a global “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes on the U.S.–Mexico border: immigration enforcement and transnational movement.

  Mujeres en el Cruce: Remapping Border Security through Migrant Mobility

  In this paper

  I discuss several findings of my study of migrant women

  temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: those posed by border enforcement measures and those posed by transnational mobility. A pressing issue that emerged from this research was how close women come to encountering death as they sidestep the border wall to cross without authorization into the US. Their testimonies shed light on how the intersection of contradictory processes contributes to a humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border in which the likelihood of death is increasingly present.

  Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind: Gender

  Migration

  and Border (In)Security

  Rascon

  Michelle

  Cabrera

  Nolan L

  In May of 2010

  a third ethnic studies ban bill managed to pass through Arizona's State House and Senate

  and Republican Governor Janice Brewer signed House Bill 2281 into law. Alongside the passage of SB 1070 in April of that same year

  Arizonans arrived at a historical tipping point

  brought about a by multiple forces including political parties and groups that increasingly rely on a racialized national ideology to undermine a historically subordinated group's claims of belonging by making them the object of fear and rage. In this chapter we analyze HB 2281

  Arizona's anti-Ethnic Studies law

  and discuss its implications for education

  health

  and the broader trend to exclude minority communities from greater democratic participation.

  Assault on Ethnic Studies.

  Anna

  O'Leary

  Binational Migration Institute (BMI)

  Pima Community College