Unpublished PhD dissertation, see revised publication as book Remaking Citizenship, Stanford Univ... more Unpublished PhD dissertation, see revised publication as book Remaking Citizenship, Stanford University Press, 2010
The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income... more The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income Latina immigrants. Less recognized were the ways immigrant community organizations mobilized under exceptional conditions to provide immediate support to their communities while continuing to work toward durable systematic change. This paper analyzes the approach of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over three decades, MUA developed an organizing model that builds transformative relationships among peers and provides direct services and leadership development for civic engagement. MUA has a long history of research collaborations and self-study aligned with critical community-engaged research methods and values. In 2019, MUA formed a research team of its leaders and academics to analyze the impact of their model. Since data collection occurred between March 2020 and December 2022, the research also documented the organization’s response to COVID-19. This paper argues that specific organizational values and practices of liderazgo, apoyo, and confianza (leadership, support, and trust) proved to be particularly powerful resources for sustaining individuals and community work through the pandemic, enabling women who have experienced multiple forms of structural violence to perceive themselves as capable of healing themselves and their communities while working to address root causes of trauma and inequity.
The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income... more The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income Latina immigrants. Less recognized were the ways immigrant community organizations mobilized under exceptional conditions to provide immediate support to their communities while continuing to work toward durable systematic change. This paper analyzes the approach of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over three decades, MUA developed an organizing model that builds transformative relationships among peers and provides direct services and leadership development for civic engagement. MUA has a long history of research collaborations and self-study aligned with critical community-engaged research methods and values. In 2019, MUA formed a research team of its leaders and academics to analyze the impact of their model. Since data collection occurred between March 2020 and December 2022, the research also documented the organization’s response to COVID-19. This pape...
The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income... more The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income Latina immigrants. Less recognized were the ways immigrant community organizations mobilized under exceptional conditions to provide immediate support to their communities while continuing to work toward durable systematic change. This paper analyzes the approach of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over three decades, MUA developed an organizing model that builds transformative relationships among peers and provides direct services and leadership development for civic engagement. MUA has a long history of research collaborations and self-study aligned with critical community-engaged research methods and values. In 2019, MUA formed a research team of its leaders and academics to analyze the impact of their model. Since data collection occurred between March 2020 and December 2022, the research also documented the organization’s response to COVID-19. This paper argues that specific organizational values and practices of liderazgo, apoyo, and confianza (leadership, support, and trust) proved to be particularly powerful resources for sustaining individuals and community work through the pandemic, enabling women who have experienced multiple forms of structural violence to perceive themselves as capable of healing themselves and their communities while working to address root causes of trauma and inequity.
La economía social y solidaria en un contexto de crisis de la civilización occidental: Alternativas ante la migración y la desigualdad de género en México, San Francisco y Granada, 2019
To purchase the book La economía social y solidaria en un contexto de crisis de la civilización o... more To purchase the book La economía social y solidaria en un contexto de crisis de la civilización occidental edited by Leila Oulhaj:
https://ciiess.ibero.mx/publicaciones/
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 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.
ABSTRACTService learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is mean... more ABSTRACTService learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civic education. Following this tradition, this article presents an example of a course informed by critical service learning centered in a grassroots social movement. Partnered with the California Domestic Workers Coalition and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, this course involved students in direct political engagement to explore cultural citizenship, the legislative process, and the possibilities and limitations of grassroots movements for social change. Challenging traditional notions of what counts as service and who counts as an expert, the example of this course speaks to the promise of service learning pedagogy as a strategy to connect students in meaningful ways to critical social issues and as a tool for political education.
... During the mid-1990s, three statewide ballot initiatives sought to cut public services to the... more ... During the mid-1990s, three statewide ballot initiatives sought to cut public services to the ... After voters approved the measure, Proposition 187 was enjoined by the courts and never took effect. ... the Mexican verbal art of the albur, or good-natured back and forth sexual humor that ...
This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and sc... more This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and scales, drawing upon anthropological studies. It aims to displace some of the taken for granted assumptions about the what and where of citizenship as a focus of social and political engagement. In this it is inspired by concerns shared with much recent work in the study of citizenship (and in Citizenship Studies) which has challenged the normative framing of citizenship as a juridical and political status identified with the nation-state (Isin and ...
This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and sc... more This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and scales, drawing upon anthropological studies. It aims to displace some of the taken for granted assumptions about the what and where of citizenship as a focus of social and political engagement. In this it is inspired by concerns shared with much recent work in the study of citizenship (and in Citizenship Studies) which has challenged the normative framing of citizenship as a juridical and political status identified with the nation-state (Isin and ...
This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and sc... more This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and scales, drawing upon anthropological studies. It aims to displace some of the taken for granted assumptions about the what and where of citizenship as a focus of social and political engagement. In this it is inspired by concerns shared with much recent work in the study of citizenship (and in Citizenship Studies) which has challenged the normative framing of citizenship as a juridical and political status identified with the nation-state (Isin and ...
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2016
On September 23, 2015, 5-year-old Sophie Cruz made headlines when she crossed security lines to r... more On September 23, 2015, 5-year-old Sophie Cruz made headlines when she crossed security lines to run to Pope Francis during his visit to Washington, D.C. Despite heavy security, Sophie successfully delivered her message—an appeal for his support for the implementation of Deferred Action for Parents of US Citizen and Legal Permanent Resident Children (DAPA). Sophie’s undocumented parents stand to benefit from the legislative action announced by President Obama in November 2014, but at the time of this writing, anti-immigrant forces in Congress have mounted legal challenges to indefinitely stall the implementation of the program. As this political spectacle plays out at the federal, state, and local levels, draconian immigration policies continue to tear families apart, create a climate of fear, and criminalize the immigrants whose labor contributes crucially to keeping this nation afloat. In this context, children like Sophie have fought for—and at times won—the opportunity to make th...
Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civ... more Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civic education. Following this tradition, this article presents an example of a course informed by critical service learning centered in a grassroots social movement. Partnered with the California Domestic Workers Coalition and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, this course involved students in direct political engagement to explore cultural citizenship, the legislative process, and the possibilities and limitations of grassroots movements for social change. Challenging traditional notions of what counts as service and who counts as an expert, the example of this course speaks to the promise of service learning pedagogy as a strategy to connect students in meaningful ways to critical social issues and as a tool for political education.
Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civ... more Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civic education. Following this tradition, this article presents an example of a course informed by critical service learning centered in a grassroots social movement. Partnered with the California Domestic Workers Coalition and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, this course involved students in direct political engagement to explore cultural citizenship, the legislative process, and the possibilities and limitations of grassroots movements for social change. Challenging traditional notions of what counts as service and who counts as an expert, the example of this course speaks to the promise of service learning pedagogy as a strategy to connect students in meaningful ways to critical social issues and as a tool for political education.
Unpublished PhD dissertation, see revised publication as book Remaking Citizenship, Stanford Univ... more Unpublished PhD dissertation, see revised publication as book Remaking Citizenship, Stanford University Press, 2010
The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income... more The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income Latina immigrants. Less recognized were the ways immigrant community organizations mobilized under exceptional conditions to provide immediate support to their communities while continuing to work toward durable systematic change. This paper analyzes the approach of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over three decades, MUA developed an organizing model that builds transformative relationships among peers and provides direct services and leadership development for civic engagement. MUA has a long history of research collaborations and self-study aligned with critical community-engaged research methods and values. In 2019, MUA formed a research team of its leaders and academics to analyze the impact of their model. Since data collection occurred between March 2020 and December 2022, the research also documented the organization’s response to COVID-19. This paper argues that specific organizational values and practices of liderazgo, apoyo, and confianza (leadership, support, and trust) proved to be particularly powerful resources for sustaining individuals and community work through the pandemic, enabling women who have experienced multiple forms of structural violence to perceive themselves as capable of healing themselves and their communities while working to address root causes of trauma and inequity.
The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income... more The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income Latina immigrants. Less recognized were the ways immigrant community organizations mobilized under exceptional conditions to provide immediate support to their communities while continuing to work toward durable systematic change. This paper analyzes the approach of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over three decades, MUA developed an organizing model that builds transformative relationships among peers and provides direct services and leadership development for civic engagement. MUA has a long history of research collaborations and self-study aligned with critical community-engaged research methods and values. In 2019, MUA formed a research team of its leaders and academics to analyze the impact of their model. Since data collection occurred between March 2020 and December 2022, the research also documented the organization’s response to COVID-19. This pape...
The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income... more The COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to the essential work and vulnerability of low-income Latina immigrants. Less recognized were the ways immigrant community organizations mobilized under exceptional conditions to provide immediate support to their communities while continuing to work toward durable systematic change. This paper analyzes the approach of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over three decades, MUA developed an organizing model that builds transformative relationships among peers and provides direct services and leadership development for civic engagement. MUA has a long history of research collaborations and self-study aligned with critical community-engaged research methods and values. In 2019, MUA formed a research team of its leaders and academics to analyze the impact of their model. Since data collection occurred between March 2020 and December 2022, the research also documented the organization’s response to COVID-19. This paper argues that specific organizational values and practices of liderazgo, apoyo, and confianza (leadership, support, and trust) proved to be particularly powerful resources for sustaining individuals and community work through the pandemic, enabling women who have experienced multiple forms of structural violence to perceive themselves as capable of healing themselves and their communities while working to address root causes of trauma and inequity.
La economía social y solidaria en un contexto de crisis de la civilización occidental: Alternativas ante la migración y la desigualdad de género en México, San Francisco y Granada, 2019
To purchase the book La economía social y solidaria en un contexto de crisis de la civilización o... more To purchase the book La economía social y solidaria en un contexto de crisis de la civilización occidental edited by Leila Oulhaj:
https://ciiess.ibero.mx/publicaciones/
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 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.
ABSTRACTService learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is mean... more ABSTRACTService learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civic education. Following this tradition, this article presents an example of a course informed by critical service learning centered in a grassroots social movement. Partnered with the California Domestic Workers Coalition and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, this course involved students in direct political engagement to explore cultural citizenship, the legislative process, and the possibilities and limitations of grassroots movements for social change. Challenging traditional notions of what counts as service and who counts as an expert, the example of this course speaks to the promise of service learning pedagogy as a strategy to connect students in meaningful ways to critical social issues and as a tool for political education.
... During the mid-1990s, three statewide ballot initiatives sought to cut public services to the... more ... During the mid-1990s, three statewide ballot initiatives sought to cut public services to the ... After voters approved the measure, Proposition 187 was enjoined by the courts and never took effect. ... the Mexican verbal art of the albur, or good-natured back and forth sexual humor that ...
This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and sc... more This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and scales, drawing upon anthropological studies. It aims to displace some of the taken for granted assumptions about the what and where of citizenship as a focus of social and political engagement. In this it is inspired by concerns shared with much recent work in the study of citizenship (and in Citizenship Studies) which has challenged the normative framing of citizenship as a juridical and political status identified with the nation-state (Isin and ...
This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and sc... more This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and scales, drawing upon anthropological studies. It aims to displace some of the taken for granted assumptions about the what and where of citizenship as a focus of social and political engagement. In this it is inspired by concerns shared with much recent work in the study of citizenship (and in Citizenship Studies) which has challenged the normative framing of citizenship as a juridical and political status identified with the nation-state (Isin and ...
This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and sc... more This issue of Citizenship Studies explores practices of citizenship in heterogeneous sites and scales, drawing upon anthropological studies. It aims to displace some of the taken for granted assumptions about the what and where of citizenship as a focus of social and political engagement. In this it is inspired by concerns shared with much recent work in the study of citizenship (and in Citizenship Studies) which has challenged the normative framing of citizenship as a juridical and political status identified with the nation-state (Isin and ...
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2016
On September 23, 2015, 5-year-old Sophie Cruz made headlines when she crossed security lines to r... more On September 23, 2015, 5-year-old Sophie Cruz made headlines when she crossed security lines to run to Pope Francis during his visit to Washington, D.C. Despite heavy security, Sophie successfully delivered her message—an appeal for his support for the implementation of Deferred Action for Parents of US Citizen and Legal Permanent Resident Children (DAPA). Sophie’s undocumented parents stand to benefit from the legislative action announced by President Obama in November 2014, but at the time of this writing, anti-immigrant forces in Congress have mounted legal challenges to indefinitely stall the implementation of the program. As this political spectacle plays out at the federal, state, and local levels, draconian immigration policies continue to tear families apart, create a climate of fear, and criminalize the immigrants whose labor contributes crucially to keeping this nation afloat. In this context, children like Sophie have fought for—and at times won—the opportunity to make th...
Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civ... more Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civic education. Following this tradition, this article presents an example of a course informed by critical service learning centered in a grassroots social movement. Partnered with the California Domestic Workers Coalition and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, this course involved students in direct political engagement to explore cultural citizenship, the legislative process, and the possibilities and limitations of grassroots movements for social change. Challenging traditional notions of what counts as service and who counts as an expert, the example of this course speaks to the promise of service learning pedagogy as a strategy to connect students in meaningful ways to critical social issues and as a tool for political education.
Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civ... more Service learning in political science is driven by a commitment to expanding what is meant by civic education. Following this tradition, this article presents an example of a course informed by critical service learning centered in a grassroots social movement. Partnered with the California Domestic Workers Coalition and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, this course involved students in direct political engagement to explore cultural citizenship, the legislative process, and the possibilities and limitations of grassroots movements for social change. Challenging traditional notions of what counts as service and who counts as an expert, the example of this course speaks to the promise of service learning pedagogy as a strategy to connect students in meaningful ways to critical social issues and as a tool for political education.
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