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Biography
The central concerns of my research and teaching include: labor and class formation, racialization, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship, and transnational social processes, especially migration. My ethnographic research explores the social productions of racialized and spatialized difference in the experiences of transnational Mexican migrant workers within the space of the U.S. nation-state. More specifically, I examine transnational urban conjunctural spaces that link the U.S. and Latin America as a standpoint of critique from which to interrogate U.S. nationalism, political economy, racialized citizenship, and immigration law. This work contributes to a reconceptualization of Latin American, Latino, and "American" (U.S.) Studies. Likewise, I am interested in the methodological problems of ethnographic research practice and the limits of anthropological disciplinary forms of knowledge and modes of representation. My current research concerns the politics of race and immigration in relation to the Homeland Security State and the so-called "War on Terrorism".
Representative Publications:
1998. "Race, Space, and the Reinvention of Latin America in Mexican Chicago," in Latin American Perspectives, Volume 25, Number 5.
2002. "Migrant 'Illegality' and Deportability in Everyday Life" in Annual Review of Anthropology #31.
2003. "Latino Racial Formations in the United States: An Introduction" (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Volume 8, Number 2.
2003. "Latino Rehearsals: Racialization and the Politics of Citizenship Between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago" (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Volume 8, Number 2.
2003. Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) (New York: Routledge).
2004. "The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant 'Illegality'" in Latino Studies, Volume 2, Number 1.
2005. Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).
2006. Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (edited, with an Introduction, by Nicholas De Genova); in press.
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