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Cecilia Menjívar (Associate Professor)
E-mail: menjivar@asu.edu | View
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My research interests can be summarized in two areas. The first focuses
on U.S.-bound migration. I have been studying the effects of legal, social
and economic exclusion on different spheres of social life among immigrants,
such as social networks, family, gender relations, religious participation,
and transnational ties, focusing primarily on Central American immigrants
in the United States. My other focus is on Latin America, with special
attention to Central America. Here I am interested in the effects of
structural adjustments on daily life, from a gendered perspective. I
am also interested in issues of state terror in the region. Based on
fieldwork I undertook in Guatemala, I have been writing about the effects
that multiple forms of violence-institutional, political, gender, symbolic-have
on the social worlds (i.e., gender relations, family, networks, work
and religion) of Ladinas and indigenous mothers.
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