Latin American Studies

Reflections on 25 years of Refried Elvis (Part 1 of 2)

Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.

An Interview with Yvette J. Saavedra, winner of the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize

Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as …

Q&A with Chelsea Schields, author of Offshore Attachments

Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao …

Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum

Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin …

Recovering the transnational history of the Sandinista Revolution

By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had …

The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants

By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border …

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Q&A with Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds

American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United …

The New Left in Mexico: A Topic Up for Debate

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (MSEM) issue 39.2 features a special thematic section on “The New Left in Mexico.” To enhance discussion around the issue, the journal’s editor asked renowned Mexican sociologist and anthropologist …

The Untold Story of Children Moving from the United States to Mexico

By Víctor Zúñiga, co-author of The 0.5 Generation: Children Moving from the United States to Mexico Our research on children migrating from the United States to Mexico began 25 years ago in …