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Cecilia Menjívar's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Cecilia Menjívar, born and raised in El Salvador, is an American sociologist who has made significant contributions to the study of international migration, the structural roots of inequalities, state power, gender-based violence against women, and legal regimes. Menjívar is currently a Professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is the Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair.

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Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants' Lives in the United States1 (2006) (889)
Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants1 (2012) (703)
Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence (2002) (457)
Latino immigrants’ perceptions of crime and police authorities in the United States: A case study from the Phoenix Metropolitan area (2004) (300)
Central Themes in the Study of Transnational Parenthood (2012) (209)
The Intersection of Work and Gender (1999) (178)
Remittance Behavior among Salvadoran and Filipino Immigrants in Los Angeles * (1998) (151)
The Ties that Heal: Guatemalan Immigrant Women's Networks and Medical Treatment 1 (2002) (148)
Men's Migration and Women's Lives: Views from Rural Armenia and Guatemala (2007) (144)
Living in two worlds? Guatemalan-origin children in the United States and emerging transnationalism (2002) (139)
:God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (2009) (137)
Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles (2001) (136)
Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization (2014) (134)
Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix (2003) (122)
Parents and children across borders: Legal instability and intergenerational relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran families. (2009) (102)
Latinas/os in the United States : changing the face of América (2008) (97)
Religious Institutions and Transnationalism: A Case Study of Catholic and Evangelical Salvadoran Immigrants (1999) (91)
The power of the law: Central Americans’ legality and everyday life in Phoenix, Arizona (2011) (89)
Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization1 (2016) (88)
Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era (2017) (87)
Undocumented and unaccompanied: children of migration in the European Union and the United States (2017) (87)
Immigrant kinship networks: Vietnamese Salvadoreans and Mexicans in comparative perspective. (1997) (85)
Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (2005) (83)
Educational Hopes, Documented Dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Immigrants' Legality and Educational Prospects (2008) (80)
Immigrant Kinship Networks and the Impact of the Receiving Context: Salvadorans in San Francisco in the Early 1990s (1997) (76)
Gendered Paths to Legal Citizenship: The Case of Latin‐American Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona (2012) (74)
The Spillover Consequences of an Enforcement-First U.S. Immigration Regime (2014) (71)
Children Without Borders: A Mapping of the Literature on Unaccompanied Migrant Children to the United States (2010) (70)
IMMIGRANT LATIN A MOTHERS AS TARGETS OF LEGAL VIOLENCE (2016) (69)
The Meanings of Migration, Remittances and Gifts: Views of Honduran Women Who Stay (2011) (68)
Unpacking Longings to Return: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Phoenix, Arizona1 (2005) (60)
Immigrant Criminalization in Law and the Media (2016) (57)
Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala (2011) (55)
The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation (2018) (53)
Transnational Parenting and Immigration Law: Central Americans in the United States (2012) (53)
Paradoxes of Family Immigration Policy: Separation, Reorganization, and Reunification of Families Under Current Immigration Laws (2015) (49)
The context of return migration: challenges of mixed-status families in Mexico's schools (2015) (49)
The Racialization of “Illegality” (2021) (47)
The architecture of feminicide: The state, inequalities, and everyday gender violence in Honduras (2017) (46)
Skills of the ‘unskilled’: work and mobility among Mexican migrants (2016) (46)
The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises (2018) (44)
Violence and Women’s Lives in Eastern Guatemala: A Conceptual Framework (2008) (44)
Talking about the "Epidemic of the Millennium": Religion, Informal Communication, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008) (43)
FAMILY REORGANIZATION IN A CONTEXT OF LEGAL UNCERTAINTY: GUATEMALAN AND SALVADORAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES * (2006) (42)
Legality, Racialization, and Immigrants' Experience of Ethnoracial Harassment in Russia. (2017) (42)
IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, THE RACIALIZATION OF LEGAL STATUS, AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLICE (2018) (41)
When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (2005) (41)
The Spring Marches of 2006 (2008) (40)
Kinship Networks Among Immigrants (1995) (39)
Effects of SB 1070 on Children (2013) (38)
The “Poli-Migra” (2014) (36)
“They Will Post a Law About Playing Soccer” and Other Ethnic/Racial Microaggressions in Organized Activities Experienced by Mexican-Origin Families (2016) (36)
Turkish Immigrants’ Hopes and Fears Around Return Migration (2012) (36)
Central American immigrant workers and legal violence in Phoenix, Arizona (2013) (34)
Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas (2020) (34)
Immigrants, Immigration, and Sociology: Reflecting on the State of the Discipline* (2010) (34)
Beyond individual and visible acts of violence: A framework to examine the lives of women in low-income neighborhoods (2014) (33)
History, economy and politics: macro and micro-level factors in recent salvadorean migration to the us (1993) (32)
Youths’ Perspective on Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona: The Socio-emotional Effects of Immigration Policy (2013) (32)
Violence and Vulnerability of Female Migrants in Drop Houses in Arizona (2015) (32)
Impunity and multisided violence in the lives of Latin American women: El Salvador in comparative perspective (2016) (30)
“Humane” Immigration Enforcement and Latina Immigrants in the Detention Complex (2017) (30)
Constructing Immigrant 'illegality': Critiques, Experiences, and Responses (2015) (30)
God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists are Working for Immigrant Rights (2009) (29)
Arizona's SB 1070: Setting Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond (2012) (25)
Economic Incorporation, Civil Inclusion, and Social Ties: Plans to Return Home among Central Asian Migrant Women in Moscow, Russia (2014) (24)
“What Guarantees Do We Have?” Legal Tolls and Persistent Impunity for Feminicide in Guatemala (2016) (24)
For Their Own Good: Benevolent Rhetoric and Exclusionary Language in Public Officials' Discourse on Immigrant-Related Issues. (2002) (24)
Financial and emotional support in close personal ties among Central Asian migrant women in Russia (2017) (23)
Salvadorian migration to the United States in the 1980s: what can we learn about it and from it? (1994) (22)
The Legal Violence in the 2017 Executive Orders: The Expansion of Immigrant Criminalization in Kansas (2018) (21)
Salvadoran Migration to Southern California: Redefining El Hermano Lejano (2005) (19)
'Bad Hombres': The Effects of Criminalizing Latino Immigrants through Law and Media in the Rural Midwest (2018) (19)
Awareness of Arizona's immigration law SB1070 predicts classroom behavioural problems among Latino youths during early adolescence (2018) (19)
Subverting justice: socio-legal determinants of impunity for violence against women in Guatemala (2016) (18)
Recasting the Immigrant Health Paradox Through Intersections of Legal Status and Race (2021) (18)
Cultural values and other perceived benefits of organized activities: A qualitative analysis of Mexican-origin parents’ perspectives in Arizona (2018) (17)
When States Kill (2005) (17)
The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South (2014) (17)
Fighting down the scourge, building up the church: Organisational constraints in religious involvement with HIV/AIDS in Mozambique (2011) (17)
Latino Immigrants and their Perceptions of Religious Institutions: Cubans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans in Phoenix, Arizona (2001) (17)
Global Processes and Local Lives: Guatemalan Women's Work and Gender Relations at Home and Abroad (2006) (16)
Phoenix: The Newest Latino Immigrant Gateway? (2014) (15)
The Gendered Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement: Latinas’ Social Isolation in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and Phoenix (2020) (15)
Introduction : Public Religion and Immigration Across National Contexts (2006) (15)
Religion, the state and disaster relief in the United States and India (2012) (15)
Bound by inequality: The social capital of older Asians and Latinos in Phoenix, Arizona (2015) (15)
Causes and consequences of international migration: sociological evidence for the right to mobility (2012) (14)
Securing borders: patriotism, vigilantism and the brutalization of the US American public (2009) (13)
Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities (2016) (12)
Fluid adaptation of contested citizenship: second-generation migrant Turks in Germany and the United States (2013) (12)
Deportation and Return in a Border-Restricted World (2017) (12)
Disease Mongering in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and the Expansion of the Antidepressant Market* (2014) (11)
Voice, Agency and Vulnerability: The Immigration of Children through Systems of Protection and Enforcement (2011) (11)
Salvadoran Immigrants to the United States (2015) (10)
Confluence of the Economic Recession and Immigration Laws in the Lives of Latino Immigrant Workers in the United States (2015) (10)
Chapter 1 State Terror in the U.S.–Latin American Interstate Regime (2005) (10)
Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles (2020) (10)
Constructing Illegality in America: Immigrant Experiences, Critiques, and Resistance (2013) (10)
The Contradictions of Liminal Legality: Economic Attainment and Civic Engagement of Central American Immigrants on Temporary Protected Status (2020) (9)
Economic uncertainties, social strains, and HIV risks: exploring the effects of male labor migration on rural women in Mozambique (2013) (9)
Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability (2021) (8)
Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Ladina’s Self and Body in Eastern Guatemala (2009) (8)
18 Challenges of Recognition, Participation, and Representation for the Legally Liminal: A Comment (2014) (7)
Two Decades of Constructing Immigrants as Criminals (2018) (7)
Who Belongs and Why (2009) (7)
The ripple effects of deportations in Honduras (2017) (7)
The Complexities of Culturally Responsive Organized Activities: Latino Parents’ and Adolescents’ Perspectives (2020) (6)
8. Serving Christ in the Borderlands: Faith Workers Respond to Border Violence (2020) (6)
Normalizing Suffering, Robadas, Coercive Power, and Marital Unions Among Ladinas in Eastern Guatemala (2016) (6)
The Impact of Adjacent Laws on Implementing Violence Against Women Laws: Legal Violence in the Lives of Costa Rican Women (2020) (5)
Sibling Behaviors and Mexican-Origin Adolescents’ After-School Activities (2017) (5)
Spaces of legal ambiguity (2017) (5)
Constructing Illegality in America: Responses and Resistance (2013) (5)
Salvadorans in Costa Rica: Displaced Lives (2004) (4)
Social Networks Dynamics: Implications for Salvadoreans in San Francisco (1994) (4)
Reshaping the post-Soviet periphery: the impact of mens labor migration on womens lives and aspirations in rural Armenia. (2007) (4)
When Immigration Policies Affect Immigrants’ Lives: Commentary (2013) (3)
Networks and Religious Communities Among Salvadoran Immigrants in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. (2000) (3)
Thinking about Violence (2014) (3)
Central American Immigrant Workers: How Legal Status Shapes the Labor Market Experience (2015) (3)
Constructing immigrant "illegality" : critiques, experiences, and responses/ edited by Cecilia Menjívar, Daniel Kanstroom (2014) (3)
The Language of Immigration Coverage: The Arizona Republic and Media’s Role in the Production of Social Illegality (2021) (3)
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Emerald Article: Religion, the state and disaster relief in the United States and India (2012) (3)
Gender, violence and migration (2019) (3)
Central America: gender and migration (2013) (3)
Central American immigrant workers and legal violence in Phoenix, Arizona (2013) (3)
“No Tyson in Tongie!”: The Battle to Protect a Rural Way of Life in Kansas* (2020) (3)
Undocumented (or unauthorized) immigration (2012) (2)
9. Immigrant Art as Liminal Expression: The Case of Central Americans (2010) (2)
Voluntary and Involuntary Return Migration (2017) (2)
Commentary: Will the Outcome of the 2020 Election Reshape U.S. Immigration Policies? (2020) (2)
Bureaucracies of Displacement: From Immigrants’ Social and Physical Exclusion to Their Judicial Removal (2020) (2)
Introduction: Structural Changes and Gender Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean (2002) (2)
Reflections from One Latino Field: Notes from Research Among Central Americans in the United States (2003) (2)
The impact of male labour migration on women and households in rural Armenia (2015) (2)
Comprar Latinas/os in the United States · Changing the Face of AmÃ©rica | Rodriguez, Havidan | 9780387719412 | Springer (2008) (2)
Studying Central Americans in Latino studies (2017) (2)
New responses to state terror (2005) (2)
Book Review: A Courtship after Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families (2005) (2)
Mass Deportation (2018) (2)
Constructing Illegality in America: Contents (2013) (2)
(Il)legality and psychosocial well-being: Central Asian migrant women in Russia (2021) (2)
Long-term Family Separations and Unaccompanied Children’s Lives: A Response to Aryah Somers: Undocumented children in the US (2010) (1)
The Catholic Church and Central American Immigrants in the United States (2022) (1)
Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe. By Kitty Calavita (2006) (1)
State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins (2023) (1)
Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts (2020) (1)
A Framework for Examining Violence (2011) (1)
Domestic violence, abuse, and migration (2013) (1)
Providers’ and Latina Immigrants’ Views of Anti-Domestic Violence Services in the Midwest (2017) (1)
Possibilities for Sociological Research to Reduce Inequalities: Observations from the Immigration Scholarship (2022) (1)
Latino immigrants, gender and poverty in the united states (2010) (1)
Learning about and from the Great Escape of African Americans to Appalachia (2019) (1)
Gender-based Violence in Central America and Women Asylum Seekers in the United States (2019) (1)
Combining Qualitative Data in Research Among U.S. Immigrant Populations (2018) (1)
Blocking the Law from Within: Familyism Ideologies as Obstacles to Legal Protections for Women in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (2022) (1)
Guatemalan-Origin Children’s Transnational Ties (2021) (1)
Undocumented and Unaccompanied (2021) (1)
Migration Crises (2018) (1)
Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala (2011) (1)
THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF THE STIGMA OF ILLEGALITY AND MARGINALIZATION OF LATINXS (SIML) SCALE (2021) (1)
Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: Simulating the Social Networks and Interactions of Poor Immigrants (2014) (1)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Rights of Migrants and Minorities (2008) (0)
Studying Central Americans in Latino studies (2017) (0)
chapter 13 New Responses to State Terror (2005) (0)
The Plurality of the Legal Context of Reception: Central Asian Immigrant Women in Russia (2012) (0)
The Mercy Factory: Refugees and the American Asylum System (2001) (0)
The Newest Latino Immigrant Gateway?1 (2016) (0)
SACRED ASSEMBLIES AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: HOW RELIGION MATTERS FOR AMERICA'S NEWEST IMMIGRANTS by Fred Kniss and Paul D. Numrich (2008) (0)
Chapter 3. Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman’s Self and Body (2019) (0)
Fighting to Exist in Non-Existence: The Citizenship Process of Central American and Mexican Women (2006) (0)
An Architecture of Repulsion (2020) (0)
11 Economic Uncertainties, Social Strains, and HIV Risks (2020) (0)
U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (2019) (0)
Book Review: Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (2000) (0)
Undocumented Migration. By Roberto G. Gonzales, Nando Sigona, Martha C. Franco, and Anna Papoutsi. Cambridge: Polity, 2019. Pp. vii+203. $64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). (2020) (0)
Immigration in the United States (2016) (0)
Chapter 7. Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence (2019) (0)
WWS594f Policy Analysis: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Public Policy (2010) (0)
Youth on Their Own (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. A Framework for Examining Violence (2019) (0)
Chapter 6. Women’s Work Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality (2019) (0)
DOCUMENT OVERSEERS, ENHANCED ENFORCEMENT, AND RACIALIZED LOCAL CONTEXTS: (2020) (0)
Introduction (2006) (0)
Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice (2011) (0)
Defending Borders and Brutalization of the US American Public (2009) (0)
Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight: Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence by Wendy Chan (2021) (0)
Women’s Work: Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality (2011) (0)
Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death (2015) (0)
Title of Paper: Multisided Violence and the State in the Lives of Guatemalan and Salvadoran Women (2014) (0)
Index to Gender & Society (2006) (0)
Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman’s Self and Body (2011) (0)
Chapter 1. Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala (2019) (0)
Guatemalan Immigrants to the United States (2015) (0)
WhatsApp as a facilitator of expressions of gratitude for palliative care professionals (2022) (0)
In Harm’s Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence. By Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii+241. $35.00. (2016) (0)
Max. J. Castro (ed.), Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? Trends in International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas (Miami, FL: North-South Center Press, University of Miami, 1999), pp. iii+284, £21.50 pb. (2002) (0)
VIOLENCE AND W O MEN'S LIVES IN EASTERN GU AT EMALA A Conceptual Framework* (2008) (0)
Thinking about Violence (2014) (0)
Chapter 5. Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice (2019) (0)
6. Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts: Experiences of Latino/a Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona (2020) (0)
Book Review: Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey (2009) (0)
Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence (2011) (0)
Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles (review) (2008) (0)
Chapter 4. Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering (2019) (0)
Constructing Illegality in America: Introduction – Immigrant “Illegality” (2013) (0)
Deborah A. Boehm, Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans (New York and London: New York University Press, 2012), pp. xiv+178, $49.00, hb. (2014) (0)
Chapter 8. Enduring Violence (2019) (0)
Book Review: Legalization Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency (2001) (0)
REVIEW (1998) (0)
REVIEWLarry Sawers.The Other Argentina: The Interior and National Development. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. x+1326. $64.00 (cloth). (1998) (0)
Book Review: Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: Living in Urban Mexico (2005) (0)
Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering (2011) (0)
Migration and Refugees (2017) (0)
Immigrants' Legality and Educational Prospects Educational Hopes, Documented Dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran (2009) (0)
Violence Against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community By Roberta Villalón New York University Press. 2010. 206 pages. $23 paper (2015) (0)

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