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Anthropologie / CHAVEZ, LEO

lchavez

Position

Professor , Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
Director of Chicano/Latino Studies and Center for Research on Latinos in a global society.

Thèmes de recherche

International migration, Latin American immigrants, medical anthropology, transnational communities.

Professor Chavez\'s research examines various issues related to transnational migration, including immigrant families and households, labor market participation, motivations for migration, the use of medical services, and media constructions of \"immigrant\" and \"nation.\"

Prix et récompenses

2009
Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. Awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of North America, a section of the American Anthropological Association.

2009
Book Award for The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press, 2008), received from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association.

2003
George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology, \"Cultural beliefs and Cancer Risk Factors: A Study of the Perceptions of Hispanic and Anglo Women and Physicians.\" Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University (April 7).

1993
Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology

Publications

The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation. Stanford University Press.

Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation.
California: UC Press, 2001. (Book information.)

Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society.
Wadsworth Publishing, 3rd Edition, 2012.

\"Wasting Away in Neoliberal-ville: Mexican Immigrant Women’s Views of Cervical Cancer, Social Inequality, and Gender Relations\"
In Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology. Juliet McMullin and Diane Weiner, editors. School for Advanced Research Press. Santa Fe, 2009

\"Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction: Lessons from Research on Transnational Migration.\"
In Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures: Born in one World and Living in Another. Janice Stockard and George Spindler, editors. Belmont, CA: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2006.

\"Awakening to a Nightmare\": Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino Immigrants in the United States.\" Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R. Chavez. Current Anthropology 53 (3): 255-281. 2012.

\"Undocumented Immigrants and Their Use of Medical Services in Orange County, California.\" Social Science & Medicine 74: 887-893. 2012.

\"A Glass Half Empty: Latina Reproduction and Public Discourse.\"
Human Organization 63.2 (2004):173-188.

“Beliefs Matter: Cultural Beliefs and the Use of Cervical-Cancer Screening Tests.\"Chavez, Leo R., Juliet M. McMullin, Shiraz I. Mishra, and F. Allan Hubbell. American Anthropologist 103(4)1114-1129, 2001.

\"Immigration and Medical Anthropology.\"
In American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2003.

\"Undocumented Immigrants in Orange County, California: A Comparative Analysis.\"
(With F. Allan Hubbell, Shhiraz I. Mishra, and R. Burciaga Valdez) International Migration Review 31 (1997): 88-107.

\"Immigration Reform and Nativism: The Nationalist Response to the Transnationalist Challenge.\"
Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States. Ed. Juan Perea. New York: New York UP, 1996.

\"The Power of the Imagined Community: The Settlement of Undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States.\"
American Anthropologist 96.1 (1994): 52-73.