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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Cecilia Menjívar is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily centers on social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science. The scientific contributions cover various subfields including clinical psychology, political science and international relations, health, and gender studies.

The main topics of Menjívar's work include migration, refugees, and integration; migration, health, and trauma; migration and labor dynamics; racial and ethnic identity research; migration, ethnicity, and economy; social and cultural dynamics; and intimate partner and family violence.

The scientist has published work in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • International Migration Review
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • American Behavioral Scientist
  • American Journal of Sociology
  • Daedalus

Menjívar's recent papers include:

  • The Racialization of "Illegality", 2021, Daedalus
  • Recasting the Immigrant Health Paradox Through Intersections of Legal Status and Race, 2021, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
  • State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins, 2023, American Sociological Review
  • Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas, 2020, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability, 2021, International Migration Review

Collaborations have formed with a number of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Andrea Gómez Cervantes
  • Irene Bloemraad
  • Victor Agadjanian
  • Byeongdon Oh
  • Leisy J. Abrego

Throughout their career, Menjívar has been recognized with awards such as the Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2017 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Liminal legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants' lives in the United States

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Legal violence: immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants

    Cecilia Menjívar;Leisy J. Abrego

  • Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence Common Experiences in Different Countries

    Cecilia Menjívar;Olivia Salcido

  • Central Themes in the Study of Transnational Parenthood

    Jørgen Carling;Cecilia Menjívar;Leah Schmalzbauer

  • Latino immigrants’ perceptions of crime and police authorities in the United States: A case study from the Phoenix Metropolitan area

    Cecilia Menjívar;Cynthia L. Bejarano

  • The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Constructing Immigrant 'illegality': Critiques, Experiences, and Responses

    Cecilia Menjívar;Daniel Kanstroom

  • Living in two worlds? Guatemalan-origin children in the United States and emerging transnationalism

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Remittance behavior among Salvadoran and Filipino immigrants in Los Angeles.

    Cecilia Menjívar;Julie DaVanzo;Lisa Greenwell;R. Burciaga Valdez

  • Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era

    Leisy Abrego;Mat Coleman;Daniel E. Martínez;Cecilia Menjívar

  • Men's Migration and Women's Lives: Views from Rural Armenia and Guatemala*

    Cecilia Menjívar;Victor Agadjanian

  • Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • The ties that heal: Guatemalan immigrant women's networks and medical treatment

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation

    Cecilia Menjívar;Andrea Gómez Cervantes;Daniel Alvord

  • Undocumented and unaccompanied: children of migration in the European Union and the United States

    Cecilia Menjívar;Krista M Perreira

  • Religious institutions and transnationalism: A case study of catholic and evangelical Salvadoran immigrants

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

    Cecilia Menjívar;Marie Ruiz;Immanuel Ness

  • Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization

    Cecilia Menjívar;Sarah M. Lakhani

  • Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

    Cecilia Menjivar;Anne R. Roschelle

  • God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. By Peggy Levitt. New York: New Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+270. $26.95.

    Cecilia Menjivar

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Agadjanian
Victor Agadjanian University of California, Los Angeles
Sandra D. Simpkins
Sandra D. Simpkins University of California, Irvine
Kimberly A. Updegraff
Kimberly A. Updegraff Arizona State University
Krista M. Perreira
Krista M. Perreira University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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