Mary Romero is Professor Emeritus of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, and 110th President of the American Sociological Association. She is the 2022 recipient of the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and the 2017 recipient of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award [Award for a lifetime of research, teaching, and service to the community or to an academic institution for its work in assisting the development of scholarly efforts in this tradition]. She received the Latina/o Sociology Section Founders Award [Outstanding contributions to the section, Leadership and Research] in 2015, the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award in 2012, and the Lee Founders Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2004.
A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an over... more A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an overview of key research topics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and empirical examples of integrating intersectionaity research with other critical practices.
ABSTRACT We briefly review the ethnic entrepreneurship paradigm, identifying the problems associa... more ABSTRACT We briefly review the ethnic entrepreneurship paradigm, identifying the problems associated with an approach that emphasizes the salience of one social group, ethnicity, to the exclusion or downplaying of others, such as race, class, and gender. We introduce an intersectional approach to the study of (ethnic) enterprise, reviewing the literature and using the articles in this special issue to demonstrate the utility of this perspective. We close by encouraging the use of this approach in future research.
China is considered to be the biggest beneficiary of globalization, as evidenced by the growing v... more China is considered to be the biggest beneficiary of globalization, as evidenced by the growing volume and diversity of people, goods, and information moving across its borders. However, the increase in scholarly attention on China's borderlands that is warranted by such economic, social, and political activities is absent. This special issue of China Information is committed to new research that addresses mounting challenges facing studies on China's borderlands, as well as borderland studies in general. This special issue presents the work of emerging scholars who investigate cross-border migration and the key characteristics of China's borderlands, focusing on previously understudied places that were out of the reach of scholars for years. These studies offer a lens through which the socioeconomic and politico-institutional changes in China's borderlands can be understood within the broader context of China's time-compressed global rise. A cursory glance at the research topics may give the impression that this special issue appears to investigate migratory phenomena in geographically remote places on the peripheries of the country. However, we suggest that China's rise is inseparable from, and critical to, a variety of complex phenomena that should be scrutinized and re-evaluated respectively in each contribution to this special issue. As areas experiencing rapid changes, China's borderlands are the sites of a multitude of processes embedded in the social transformation which affects the country's borderlands as much as its coastal regions. We begin this Introduction by reviewing new trends in global studies on China's borderlands and we explore how meetings between Chinese and global scholars in this field lead to re-examination, confusion, and controversy because borderland studies are undergoing a recalibration in China. We introduce a set of five research articles which integrate different, but not necessarily conflicting, perspectives on China's borderlands. We propose research and policy directions for a post-globalized world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic and China's rapidly evolving border management regimes. This special issue aims to shed new light on our understanding of China's borderlands in the era of post-globalization, the rise of China, and the emerging significance of borderlands in regional, national, and local politics and economies. More importantly, we try Editorial
A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an over... more A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an overview of key research topics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and empirical examples of integrating intersectionaity research with other critical practices.
ABSTRACT We briefly review the ethnic entrepreneurship paradigm, identifying the problems associa... more ABSTRACT We briefly review the ethnic entrepreneurship paradigm, identifying the problems associated with an approach that emphasizes the salience of one social group, ethnicity, to the exclusion or downplaying of others, such as race, class, and gender. We introduce an intersectional approach to the study of (ethnic) enterprise, reviewing the literature and using the articles in this special issue to demonstrate the utility of this perspective. We close by encouraging the use of this approach in future research.
China is considered to be the biggest beneficiary of globalization, as evidenced by the growing v... more China is considered to be the biggest beneficiary of globalization, as evidenced by the growing volume and diversity of people, goods, and information moving across its borders. However, the increase in scholarly attention on China's borderlands that is warranted by such economic, social, and political activities is absent. This special issue of China Information is committed to new research that addresses mounting challenges facing studies on China's borderlands, as well as borderland studies in general. This special issue presents the work of emerging scholars who investigate cross-border migration and the key characteristics of China's borderlands, focusing on previously understudied places that were out of the reach of scholars for years. These studies offer a lens through which the socioeconomic and politico-institutional changes in China's borderlands can be understood within the broader context of China's time-compressed global rise. A cursory glance at the research topics may give the impression that this special issue appears to investigate migratory phenomena in geographically remote places on the peripheries of the country. However, we suggest that China's rise is inseparable from, and critical to, a variety of complex phenomena that should be scrutinized and re-evaluated respectively in each contribution to this special issue. As areas experiencing rapid changes, China's borderlands are the sites of a multitude of processes embedded in the social transformation which affects the country's borderlands as much as its coastal regions. We begin this Introduction by reviewing new trends in global studies on China's borderlands and we explore how meetings between Chinese and global scholars in this field lead to re-examination, confusion, and controversy because borderland studies are undergoing a recalibration in China. We introduce a set of five research articles which integrate different, but not necessarily conflicting, perspectives on China's borderlands. We propose research and policy directions for a post-globalized world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic and China's rapidly evolving border management regimes. This special issue aims to shed new light on our understanding of China's borderlands in the era of post-globalization, the rise of China, and the emerging significance of borderlands in regional, national, and local politics and economies. More importantly, we try Editorial
... University the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization of Black Law Enforce... more ... University the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement, and Lamberth Consulting. ... 19. See generally BILL ONG HING, DEPORTING OUR SOULSVALUES, MORALITY, AND IMMIGRATION POLICY (2006); KEVIN JOHNSON, THE ...
Critical race theorists have applied the concepts of micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to c... more Critical race theorists have applied the concepts of micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to characterize the racial affronts minorities encounter in the criminal justice system, particularly in the War on Drugs and in the use of racial profiling. Building on LatCrit and critical race scholars, I analyze the function that immigration raids serve as a policing practice that maintains and reinforces subordinated status among working-class Latino citizens and immigrations. Using a case study approach, I analyze a five day immigration raid in 1997. locally referred to as the “Chandler Roundup.” Immigration policing constructed citizenship as visibly inscribed on bodies in specific urban spaces rather than “probable cause.” The Chandler Roundup fits into a larger pattern of immigration law enforcement practices that produce harms of reduction and repression and place Mexican Americans at risk before the law and designate them as second-class citizens with inferior rights. Latino resid...
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