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DESCRIPTION:Conventionally, immigrant “illegality” has come to signify a status, 
 assigned by law to migrants residing in the United States who arrive 
 outside of authorized channels and without proper documentation. 
 Conceptualizing illegality simply as status, however, overlooks the social 
 consequences that this legal category has on the lives of the undocumented. 
  In her study of Mexican migration to New England, Jacqueline Olvera, Term 
 Assistant Professor at Barnard College, examines how migrants, who are 
 constructed as socially invisible yet physically present, negotiate the 
 complexities that illegality introduces in their everyday lives. Arguing 
 that illegality is a social sphere that unauthorized immigrants occupy, 
 Olvera shows how illegality shapes the decisions and actions of the 
 undocumented, and of citizens as well. Professor Olvera teaches courses on 
 immigration, poverty, communities and social change, and ethnic conflict.  
 Prior to teaching at Barnard, she taught at Connecticut College and held a 
 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of 
 Michigan’s National Poverty Center. Professor Olvera has received funding 
 from the Russell Sage Foundation for her research on Mexican migration in 
 New England.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/07/18614591.php
SUMMARY:"Negotiating ‘Illegality’ in New Immigrant Destinations” with Jacqueline Olvera
LOCATION:Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), 101 Barnard Hall, Barnard 
 College (3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/07/18614591.php
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