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Over the past thirty years, there has been a growing criminal justice presence in U.S. communitie... more Over the past thirty years, there has been a growing criminal justice presence in U.S. communities of Color. Recent research on this system of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live in segregated neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by their legal standing, especially in their attempts to avoid imprisonment when “on the run.” Building on this work, this chapter focuses on the unique and understudied experiences that young Latinas face while attempting to avoid rearrests and recidivism within a working-class Latina/o barrio. Using two years of ethnographic research and over fifty in-depth semistructured interviews with young Latinas in Southern California, the authors find these young women continuously encounter the threat of imprisonment and gendered structural violence on the streets. This in turn shapes how these young people of Color negotiate being “on the run.” This chapter provides an in-depth and unique understanding of how Latinas manage ...
Abstract:Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detent... more Abstract:Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of children and the separation of families, has called attention to structural violence and inhumanity in the US immigration system. An estimated eleven million undocumented people and millions more members of mixed-status families have lived for years with the trauma caused by legal exclusion, economic precarity, and separation from loved ones. Yet years of legislative reform efforts and rights claims based on heteronormative notions of immigrant respectability, family unity, and economic contributions have failed to yield better policies. This article describes a turn within the immigrant rights movement in the 2010s toward a more transformative politics of radical inclusion across, not in spite of, differences in sexuality, gender, race, citizenship, and immigration status. Citing examples from immigrant public testimonies, movement publications, LISTSERVs, and social media, we argue that they offer evidence of new, durable bonds of political interdependence being forged between unusual allies in the struggle against racist and homo/transphobic state violence that we describe as a queer politics. The gains of the marriage equality movement, especially shifting cultural acceptance of same-sex love, support immigrant organizing across and beyond the constraints of strategic alliances, coalitions, and hierarchies of deservingness. Practices of loving politics, particularly in the current context, offer resources for hope for a stronger and more durable political consensus about what constitutes immigrant justice in the future.
Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live i... more Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live in segregated neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by their legal standing, especially in their attempts to avoid imprisonment when “on the run.” However, missing from this analysis is the inclusion of how the intersection of race, class, gender, and other identities shape our understanding of being “on the run.” Building on work in this area, we focus on the unique and understudied experiences that young Latinas face while attempting to avoid rearrests and recidivism within a working-class Latina/o barrio.
Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of ch... more Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of children and the separation of families, has called attention to structural violence and inhumanity in the US immigration system. An estimated eleven million undocumented people and millions more members of mixed-status families have lived for years with the trauma caused by legal exclusion, economic precarity, and separation from loved ones. Yet years of legislative reform eff orts and rights claims based on heteronormative notions of immigrant respectability, family unity, and economic contributions have failed to yield better policies. Th is article describes a turn within the immigrant rights movement in the 2010s toward a more transformative politics of radical inclusion across, not in spite of, diff erences in sexuality, gender, race, citizenship, and immigration status. Citing examples from immigrant public testimonies, movement publications, LISTSERVs, and social media, we argue that they off er evidence of new, durable bonds of political interdependence being forged between unusual allies in the struggle against racist and homo/transphobic state violence that we describe as a queer politics. Th e gains of the marriage equality movement, especially shift ing cultural acceptance of same-sex love, support immigrant organizing across and beyond the constraints of strategic alliances, coalitions, and hierarchies of deservingness. Practices of loving politics, particularly in the current context, off er resources for hope for a stronger and more durable political consensus about what constitutes immigrant justice in the future.
Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of ch... more Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of children and the separation of families, has called attention to structural violence and inhumanity in the US immigration system. An estimated eleven million undocumented people and millions more members of mixed-status families have lived for years with the trauma caused by legal exclusion, economic precarity, and separation from loved ones. Yet years of legislative reform eff orts and rights claims based on heteronormative notions of immigrant respectability, family unity, and economic contributions have failed to yield better policies. Th is article describes a turn within the immigrant rights movement in the 2010s toward a more transformative politics of radical inclusion across, not in spite of, diff erences in sexuality, gender, race, citizenship, and immigration status. Citing examples from immigrant public testimonies, movement publications, LISTSERVs, and social media, we argue that they off er evidence of new, durable bonds of political interdependence being forged between unusual allies in the struggle against racist and homo/transphobic state violence that we describe as a queer politics. Th e gains of the marriage equality movement, especially shift ing cultural acceptance of same-sex love, support immigrant organizing across and beyond the constraints of strategic alliances, coalitions, and hierarchies of deservingness. Practices of loving politics, particularly in the current context, off er resources for hope for a stronger and more durable political consensus about what constitutes immigrant justice in the future.
Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 2018
Childhood marks the highest risk for allergic sensitization to asthma triggers. Hispanic/Latino c... more Childhood marks the highest risk for allergic sensitization to asthma triggers. Hispanic/Latino children are at higher risk for hospitalization for asthma than non-Hispanic White children. Childcare providers lack knowledge about reducing asthma triggers. The purpose of this paper is to describe a community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative aimed at developing and pilot testing a bilingual walk-through assessment tool for asthma-friendly childcare environments. Ten Latina mothers of children with asthma living in the Pacific Northwest collaborated with research partners to develop and pilot test a Childcare Environmental Health (CEH) assessment walk-through survey.Results and Lessons Learned: The women innovated the survey with photography and structural examinations of stress and provision of basic needs. The survey tool identified environmental threats to asthma in all three childcares surveyed. Parents are well-positioned to build trust with childcare providers, asse...
Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live i... more Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live in segregated neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by their legal standing, especially in their attempts to avoid imprisonment when " on the run. " However, missing from this analysis is the inclusion of how the intersection of race, class, gender, and other identities shape our understanding of being " on the run. " Building on work in this area, we focus on the unique and understudied experiences that young Latinas face while attempting to avoid rearrests and recidivism within a working-class Latina/o barrio.
"Racial Longings, Migrant Belongings" argues that the racial performances of Colombian migrants i... more "Racial Longings, Migrant Belongings" argues that the racial performances of Colombian migrants in New York are a creative petition of belonging that leverages Colombian cultural discourses of race and nation transnationally as migrants contest being racially marked and excluded within the U.S.—even as their performances of race are shaped by the processes of racialization.
This project leverages a feminist of color theoretical critique of androcentric nationalism to offer a nuanced account of how racialized Colombian migrants navigate U.S. racial structures while simultaneously contesting or re-infusing it with other cultural forms. My dissertation elaborates the internal contours of migrant experiences to push the boundaries of our understanding Latino racialization and challenge notions of immigrant incorporation that focus only economics. My scholarship responds to the pressing social questions relating to “other” Latino migrations in the U.S. and wrestles with Colombian nationalism through an explicit investigation of its entangled race, gender and sexual norms as they materialize in migration. The interdisciplinary methodologies of gender and sexuality studies and the field’s commitment to elucidating how the social formation of nation shapes the lived experiences of marginalized subjects also powerfully shape my ethnographic study of race, nation and migration. The radical potentialities for collective organizing offer a politically generative site for approaching Latino migrant groups across nationalisms.
Elizabeth’s Story Video Script based on M.A. Thesis “Chisme Fresco” interviews and transcripts by... more Elizabeth’s Story Video Script based on M.A. Thesis “Chisme Fresco” interviews and transcripts by Ariana Ochoa Camacho. IN Lara, Orlando, Elizabeth’s Story video project created in collaboration with A. Ochoa Camacho.
Showings:
"Crossings," (2011) at the Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky.
As part of traveling exhibit, "We the People: by Delilah Montoya, Soody Sharifi, and Orlando Lara, “(2009) shown at the Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
... 10 El Poder y la Fuerza de la Pasión1 Toward a model of HIV/AIDS education and service delive... more ... 10 El Poder y la Fuerza de la Pasión1 Toward a model of HIV/AIDS education and service delivery from the bottom-up Ariana Ochoa Camacho ... The bus ride there and back was used to talk about histories, drug use, make-up tips, cosmetics, HIV/AIDS education, and exchange ...
The heterogendered division of labor and heterosexual supremacy are well preserved in television ... more The heterogendered division of labor and heterosexual supremacy are well preserved in television ... inviting us to laugh and cry while we celebrate the setbacks and triumphs of characters who appear real to us. As we do, we become complicit in the ways of thinking that allow for racial, class, gender, and sexual hierarchies, varying kinds of sexual/gender violence ... In the end, we're left to wonder who it is, exactly, who lives "happily ever after." (Chrys Ingraham 1999, p. 157) Offering the promise of heterosexual romance and a fairy tale ending. The Bachelor opened its fourth season on prime-time ABC with a male voice telling us "Once upon a time there was a charming young bachelor searching for a woman of his dreams." In this essay, we argue that The Bachelor, one of the top 25 shows in the Fall 2003 television lineup in the US (AIIYourTV 2003), normalizes heterogendered relations in contemporary US society. Coined by Chrys Ingraham (1994), heterogender is a concept used to demystify the connection between gender and heterosexuality. In The Bachelor, heterogendered relations are upheld and reified while remaining strategically opaque. Through our reading of the show, we make such relations visible for critical analysis.
Over the past thirty years, there has been a growing criminal justice presence in U.S. communitie... more Over the past thirty years, there has been a growing criminal justice presence in U.S. communities of Color. Recent research on this system of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live in segregated neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by their legal standing, especially in their attempts to avoid imprisonment when “on the run.” Building on this work, this chapter focuses on the unique and understudied experiences that young Latinas face while attempting to avoid rearrests and recidivism within a working-class Latina/o barrio. Using two years of ethnographic research and over fifty in-depth semistructured interviews with young Latinas in Southern California, the authors find these young women continuously encounter the threat of imprisonment and gendered structural violence on the streets. This in turn shapes how these young people of Color negotiate being “on the run.” This chapter provides an in-depth and unique understanding of how Latinas manage ...
Abstract:Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detent... more Abstract:Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of children and the separation of families, has called attention to structural violence and inhumanity in the US immigration system. An estimated eleven million undocumented people and millions more members of mixed-status families have lived for years with the trauma caused by legal exclusion, economic precarity, and separation from loved ones. Yet years of legislative reform efforts and rights claims based on heteronormative notions of immigrant respectability, family unity, and economic contributions have failed to yield better policies. This article describes a turn within the immigrant rights movement in the 2010s toward a more transformative politics of radical inclusion across, not in spite of, differences in sexuality, gender, race, citizenship, and immigration status. Citing examples from immigrant public testimonies, movement publications, LISTSERVs, and social media, we argue that they offer evidence of new, durable bonds of political interdependence being forged between unusual allies in the struggle against racist and homo/transphobic state violence that we describe as a queer politics. The gains of the marriage equality movement, especially shifting cultural acceptance of same-sex love, support immigrant organizing across and beyond the constraints of strategic alliances, coalitions, and hierarchies of deservingness. Practices of loving politics, particularly in the current context, offer resources for hope for a stronger and more durable political consensus about what constitutes immigrant justice in the future.
Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live i... more Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live in segregated neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by their legal standing, especially in their attempts to avoid imprisonment when “on the run.” However, missing from this analysis is the inclusion of how the intersection of race, class, gender, and other identities shape our understanding of being “on the run.” Building on work in this area, we focus on the unique and understudied experiences that young Latinas face while attempting to avoid rearrests and recidivism within a working-class Latina/o barrio.
Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of ch... more Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of children and the separation of families, has called attention to structural violence and inhumanity in the US immigration system. An estimated eleven million undocumented people and millions more members of mixed-status families have lived for years with the trauma caused by legal exclusion, economic precarity, and separation from loved ones. Yet years of legislative reform eff orts and rights claims based on heteronormative notions of immigrant respectability, family unity, and economic contributions have failed to yield better policies. Th is article describes a turn within the immigrant rights movement in the 2010s toward a more transformative politics of radical inclusion across, not in spite of, diff erences in sexuality, gender, race, citizenship, and immigration status. Citing examples from immigrant public testimonies, movement publications, LISTSERVs, and social media, we argue that they off er evidence of new, durable bonds of political interdependence being forged between unusual allies in the struggle against racist and homo/transphobic state violence that we describe as a queer politics. Th e gains of the marriage equality movement, especially shift ing cultural acceptance of same-sex love, support immigrant organizing across and beyond the constraints of strategic alliances, coalitions, and hierarchies of deservingness. Practices of loving politics, particularly in the current context, off er resources for hope for a stronger and more durable political consensus about what constitutes immigrant justice in the future.
Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of ch... more Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of children and the separation of families, has called attention to structural violence and inhumanity in the US immigration system. An estimated eleven million undocumented people and millions more members of mixed-status families have lived for years with the trauma caused by legal exclusion, economic precarity, and separation from loved ones. Yet years of legislative reform eff orts and rights claims based on heteronormative notions of immigrant respectability, family unity, and economic contributions have failed to yield better policies. Th is article describes a turn within the immigrant rights movement in the 2010s toward a more transformative politics of radical inclusion across, not in spite of, diff erences in sexuality, gender, race, citizenship, and immigration status. Citing examples from immigrant public testimonies, movement publications, LISTSERVs, and social media, we argue that they off er evidence of new, durable bonds of political interdependence being forged between unusual allies in the struggle against racist and homo/transphobic state violence that we describe as a queer politics. Th e gains of the marriage equality movement, especially shift ing cultural acceptance of same-sex love, support immigrant organizing across and beyond the constraints of strategic alliances, coalitions, and hierarchies of deservingness. Practices of loving politics, particularly in the current context, off er resources for hope for a stronger and more durable political consensus about what constitutes immigrant justice in the future.
Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 2018
Childhood marks the highest risk for allergic sensitization to asthma triggers. Hispanic/Latino c... more Childhood marks the highest risk for allergic sensitization to asthma triggers. Hispanic/Latino children are at higher risk for hospitalization for asthma than non-Hispanic White children. Childcare providers lack knowledge about reducing asthma triggers. The purpose of this paper is to describe a community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative aimed at developing and pilot testing a bilingual walk-through assessment tool for asthma-friendly childcare environments. Ten Latina mothers of children with asthma living in the Pacific Northwest collaborated with research partners to develop and pilot test a Childcare Environmental Health (CEH) assessment walk-through survey.Results and Lessons Learned: The women innovated the survey with photography and structural examinations of stress and provision of basic needs. The survey tool identified environmental threats to asthma in all three childcares surveyed. Parents are well-positioned to build trust with childcare providers, asse...
Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live i... more Recent research on systems of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live in segregated neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by their legal standing, especially in their attempts to avoid imprisonment when " on the run. " However, missing from this analysis is the inclusion of how the intersection of race, class, gender, and other identities shape our understanding of being " on the run. " Building on work in this area, we focus on the unique and understudied experiences that young Latinas face while attempting to avoid rearrests and recidivism within a working-class Latina/o barrio.
"Racial Longings, Migrant Belongings" argues that the racial performances of Colombian migrants i... more "Racial Longings, Migrant Belongings" argues that the racial performances of Colombian migrants in New York are a creative petition of belonging that leverages Colombian cultural discourses of race and nation transnationally as migrants contest being racially marked and excluded within the U.S.—even as their performances of race are shaped by the processes of racialization.
This project leverages a feminist of color theoretical critique of androcentric nationalism to offer a nuanced account of how racialized Colombian migrants navigate U.S. racial structures while simultaneously contesting or re-infusing it with other cultural forms. My dissertation elaborates the internal contours of migrant experiences to push the boundaries of our understanding Latino racialization and challenge notions of immigrant incorporation that focus only economics. My scholarship responds to the pressing social questions relating to “other” Latino migrations in the U.S. and wrestles with Colombian nationalism through an explicit investigation of its entangled race, gender and sexual norms as they materialize in migration. The interdisciplinary methodologies of gender and sexuality studies and the field’s commitment to elucidating how the social formation of nation shapes the lived experiences of marginalized subjects also powerfully shape my ethnographic study of race, nation and migration. The radical potentialities for collective organizing offer a politically generative site for approaching Latino migrant groups across nationalisms.
Elizabeth’s Story Video Script based on M.A. Thesis “Chisme Fresco” interviews and transcripts by... more Elizabeth’s Story Video Script based on M.A. Thesis “Chisme Fresco” interviews and transcripts by Ariana Ochoa Camacho. IN Lara, Orlando, Elizabeth’s Story video project created in collaboration with A. Ochoa Camacho.
Showings:
"Crossings," (2011) at the Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky.
As part of traveling exhibit, "We the People: by Delilah Montoya, Soody Sharifi, and Orlando Lara, “(2009) shown at the Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
... 10 El Poder y la Fuerza de la Pasión1 Toward a model of HIV/AIDS education and service delive... more ... 10 El Poder y la Fuerza de la Pasión1 Toward a model of HIV/AIDS education and service delivery from the bottom-up Ariana Ochoa Camacho ... The bus ride there and back was used to talk about histories, drug use, make-up tips, cosmetics, HIV/AIDS education, and exchange ...
The heterogendered division of labor and heterosexual supremacy are well preserved in television ... more The heterogendered division of labor and heterosexual supremacy are well preserved in television ... inviting us to laugh and cry while we celebrate the setbacks and triumphs of characters who appear real to us. As we do, we become complicit in the ways of thinking that allow for racial, class, gender, and sexual hierarchies, varying kinds of sexual/gender violence ... In the end, we're left to wonder who it is, exactly, who lives "happily ever after." (Chrys Ingraham 1999, p. 157) Offering the promise of heterosexual romance and a fairy tale ending. The Bachelor opened its fourth season on prime-time ABC with a male voice telling us "Once upon a time there was a charming young bachelor searching for a woman of his dreams." In this essay, we argue that The Bachelor, one of the top 25 shows in the Fall 2003 television lineup in the US (AIIYourTV 2003), normalizes heterogendered relations in contemporary US society. Coined by Chrys Ingraham (1994), heterogender is a concept used to demystify the connection between gender and heterosexuality. In The Bachelor, heterogendered relations are upheld and reified while remaining strategically opaque. Through our reading of the show, we make such relations visible for critical analysis.
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This project leverages a feminist of color theoretical critique of androcentric nationalism to offer a nuanced account of how racialized Colombian migrants navigate U.S. racial structures while simultaneously contesting or re-infusing it with other cultural forms. My dissertation elaborates the internal contours of migrant experiences to push the boundaries of our understanding Latino racialization and challenge notions of immigrant incorporation that focus only economics. My scholarship responds to the pressing social questions relating to “other” Latino migrations in the U.S. and wrestles with Colombian nationalism through an explicit investigation of its entangled race, gender and sexual norms as they materialize in migration. The interdisciplinary methodologies of gender and sexuality studies and the field’s commitment to elucidating how the social formation of nation shapes the lived experiences of marginalized subjects also powerfully shape my ethnographic study of race, nation and migration. The radical potentialities for collective organizing offer a politically generative site for approaching Latino migrant groups across nationalisms.
Showings:
"Crossings," (2011) at the Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky.
As part of traveling exhibit, "We the People: by Delilah Montoya, Soody Sharifi, and Orlando Lara, “(2009) shown at the Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
This project leverages a feminist of color theoretical critique of androcentric nationalism to offer a nuanced account of how racialized Colombian migrants navigate U.S. racial structures while simultaneously contesting or re-infusing it with other cultural forms. My dissertation elaborates the internal contours of migrant experiences to push the boundaries of our understanding Latino racialization and challenge notions of immigrant incorporation that focus only economics. My scholarship responds to the pressing social questions relating to “other” Latino migrations in the U.S. and wrestles with Colombian nationalism through an explicit investigation of its entangled race, gender and sexual norms as they materialize in migration. The interdisciplinary methodologies of gender and sexuality studies and the field’s commitment to elucidating how the social formation of nation shapes the lived experiences of marginalized subjects also powerfully shape my ethnographic study of race, nation and migration. The radical potentialities for collective organizing offer a politically generative site for approaching Latino migrant groups across nationalisms.
Showings:
"Crossings," (2011) at the Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky.
As part of traveling exhibit, "We the People: by Delilah Montoya, Soody Sharifi, and Orlando Lara, “(2009) shown at the Art League Houston, Houston, Texas