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University of Nevada, Reno
2025
University of Maryland, College Park
2022-2024
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2022-2024
Middle East Institute
2024
Liechtenstein Institute
2024
National Council on Family Relations
2022-2024
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2017-2020
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2015-2016
Abstract Mexican mixed‐status families have been front and center in embroiled national debates about the place of undocumented immigrants their citizen family members this country. These face unique obstacles, including possible fragmentation caused by deportation, challenges to birthright citizenship, they are often targeted anti‐immigrant elected officials political pundits that perpetuate a racialized discourse casts even children these as an abomination US citizenship. Therefore,...
Objective: The objective of this study is to examine how citizen young adults with undocumented parents manage parental illegality. Background: These are part mixed‐status families, which consist members different immigration statuses and often include U.S. immigrant family members. With 16 million people in scholars beginning capture their unique experiences, but little known about the adult‐age children these families. Method: Data for interviews 34 Latino/a ages 18 28. Interviews were...
This article compares the discourse on immigration found in Atlanta's African-American press (Atlanta Daily World) to that mainstream Journal-Constitution). The World's black counterdiscourse situates within a racial frame, discussing Latinos and immigrants interchangeably casting African Americans as deserving yet excluded citizens. Immigrants appear World either allies struggle for civil rights or competitors jobs. Although crime frames focus concerns about profiling, Journal-Constitution...
In a seemingly post-racial moment in 2010, Arizona’s Senate Bill (SB) 1070 was under fire and challenged as racially discriminatory. While the 2010 immigration bill popular among white Arizonians, critics charged that SB could facilitate racial profiling of all Latinos/as state law enforcement officers’ efforts to check legal status those they suspect are undocumented. Analyzing 70 recordings from Arizona house floor, press conferences, television interviews during 2009–2012, I investigate...
Book Review| March 01 2016 Review: The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream, by Mary Romero THE MAID’S DAUGHTER: LIVING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE AMERICAN DREAM.. By Romero. New York: York University Press, 2011. 277 pages. Hardcover $75.00, paperback $25.00. Cassaundra Rodriguez of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (2016) 41 (1): 317–321. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2016.41.1.317 Views Icon Article contents...
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Currently, she is working on a book project how members Mexican mixed-status families-