Anna O'Leary

 Anna O'Leary

Anna O'Leary

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Prof. Anna talks the entire class without ppt. She literally sets you up to fail. She doesn't even have a grading criteria but she gives you a "C" with no clear expectation. How is that fair at all? I'm guessing she's the director of the dept because no one else wanted to be. She seems to know her stuff but she sucks at teaching. She also gives ridic hmwrk!

Biography

University of Arizona - Mexican American Studies


Resume

  • 2003

    University of Arizona

    Binational Migration Institute

    Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary

    Prehistory

    Border

    PI

    Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of their Experiencies

    Course taught (Spring Semester): Womens Activism and Organizations (WS496/596)

    \n Gender and Contemporary Society (INDV 102-2)

    Prehistory

    As an assistant professor at the University of Arizona

    I teach undergraduate and graduate classes

    mentor students

    conduct research

    look for research funding

    serve on committees (e.g. masters and Ph.D. students)

    read alot

    grade a lot of papers

    ... all while trying to keep in touch and serve communities outside the university.

    University of Arizona

    Assistant Research Social Scientist

    Border

    Binational Migration Institute (BMI)

    University of Arizona

    The Binational Migration Institute (BMI) is an association of scholars engaged in researching the impact of border enforcement and immigration control policies on Latino communities. More about these activities are on the BMI website at http://bmi.arizona.edu

    Co-Director

    Courses taught: Exploring Nonwestern Cultures (ANT 112)

    Human Evolution and

    Pima Community College

    Adjunct Faculty

    Pima Community College

    Binational Migration Institute

    University of Arizona

    Pilot study: Family Separation and Child Welfare Protocols in Mixed-Immigration Status Immigrant\n Households\n\n2008-2009 Principal Investigator for PIMSA-funded project: A Multidisciplinary Binational Study of Migrant Women in the Context of a U.S. Mexico Border Reproductive Health\n Care Continuum

    Principal Investigator

    This project is in progress.

    Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of their Experiencies

    Graduate Research Assistant

    PI

    Professor and Dept. Head

    University of Arizona

    President

    Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary

    Spanish

    English

    University of Arizona

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

    Dissertation title: \"Investment in Female Education as an Economic Strategy among U.S.-Mexican Households

    Anthropology

    Eastern Arizona College

    Associate of Arts (AA)

    Political Science

    Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology

    and Bachelors Degree in Political Science

    Cultural Anthropology

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    Teaching

    Instructional Design

    Gender

    Curriculum Design

    Research

    History

    Higher Education

    Policy Analysis

    Applied Anthropology

    Urban Politics

    Grant Writing

    Latinas’ Practices of Emergence: Between Cultural Narratives and Globalization on the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea

    Norma E. Gonzalez

    In this article

    we attempt to map out the “in-between” space between global and cultural narratives that mediates women's educational trajectories. Case studies of women living on the U.S.–Mexico border make visible these spaces

    sites of “practices of emergence”: the practices that emerge from incommensurable economic demands and social prescriptions and produced in the act of social survival. In negotiating both global and cultural narratives

    materially and ideologically

    the occupants and ideas that inhabit these spaces are in constant flux

    resulting in the reformulation of the notions of mothering

    pedagogy

    and place

    resulting in variable educational outcomes for women

    Latinas’ Practices of Emergence: Between Cultural Narratives and Globalization on the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Azucena Sanchez

    In this paper we use some of the results of a binational study of immigrant women’s reproductive health care strategies to show how emerging anti-immigrant policies in Arizona adversely impact more than the beleaguered undocumented immigrants that are singled out for exclusion. We do this by taking into account how such policies impact mixed immigration status households

    domestic units in which the immigration status of members vary.

    “Mixed Immigration Status Households in the Context of Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Policies.”

    Purpose – Examined here are some of the tenets of social capital in the context of the migrants’ crossing the U.S.–Mexico border without official authorization. Using this context helps identify how social capital development is weakened by the structural and gendered dimensions of migration

    contributing to the rise in undocumented border crosser deaths since 1993.\n\nApproach – A selection of published works provide an overview of social capital

    and in particular

    how the framework has been used to further our understanding of the process of migration and immigrant settlement in new destinations. The principles of social capital are then examined in light of women's border crossing experiences and used to argue that migrants from emerging migrant-sending states in southern and central Mexico have had less time to accumulate resource-enhancing migration-related social capital. The narratives of repatriated women collected during research on the border in 2006–2007 are used to illustrate how controlling environments undermine the acquisition of social capital at a critical time.\n\nFindings – The selection of narratives of women who were repatriated after attempting to cross into the United States without authorization illustrate the perilous interplay of hardening border enforcement and multiplying illicit border smuggling organizations. The outcome is the downward leveling of social capital on the border that potentially poses greater life-threatening risks for migrants.\n\nOriginality/value – This study provides a theoretical understanding that can be used to explain rising levels of violence along the U.S.–Mexico border that increasingly engulf migrants fleeing poverty in Mexico.

    Of Coyotes

    Cooperation

    and Capital

    Interviews with women at the Albergue San Juan Bosco highlight an intersection as a place where opposite processes converge

    not only theoretically but in concrete terms as well. In part

    being caught in the intersection can be understood by the fact that for decades

    the United States’ need for labor and the desire for family reunification have been historically central to decisions to migrate.

    In the Footsteps of Spirits: Migrant Women’s Testimonios in a Time of Heightened Border Enforcement

    This paper summarizes quantitative and qualitative findings from a 1999 study of Mexican-origin households in Nogales

    Arizona. It finds that women's educational progress is facilitated by social support and

    even more important

    that a household's investment in the education of its members is significantly raised with an increase in the education level of the female head of household. It argues that systematic efforts to build on existent cultural frameworks of social support will promote women's educational progress and thus help improve educational opportunities for all people of Mexican origin.

    Social Exchange Practices among Mexican-origin Women in Nogales

    Arizona: Prospects for Education Acquisition

    This two-volume reference work addresses the dynamic lives of undocumented immigrants in the United States and establishes these individuals' experiences as a key part of our nation's demographic and sociological evolution.

    Undocumented Immigrants in the United States An Encyclopedia of Their Experience

    Arizona Senate Bill 1108

    the “anti–ethnic studies bill

    ” proposed to eliminate ethnic studies programs and ethnic-based organizations from state-funded education. Along with other anti-immigrant legislation

    this bill is creating an oppressive climate of discrimination against individuals of Mexican descent in Arizona. This study investigates the impact of SB 1108 on the mental well-being of Mexican-descent undergraduate students and examines protective factors such as ethnic identity

    civic engagement

    and individual coping responses (engaged and disengaged). Ninety-nine undergraduates who self-identified as Mexican

    Mexican American

    or Chicana/o completed an online survey. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis indicates that greater stress due to SB 1108 was significantly associated with lower self-esteem and more depressive symptoms. Engaged coping responses to SB 1108 protected students’ self-esteem even at high levels of stress; in contrast

    students who felt high stress but were not engaged had significantly lower self-esteem. Our results also indicate that a positive ethnic identity

    based on knowledge of cultural history and traditions

    is a significant protective factor. Thus

    while legislation such as the anti–ethnic studies bill may have a negative impact on the mental well-being of youth

    it may also make them stronger as they become academically and civically engaged in response.

    Chicana/o Students’ Respond to “Anti-Ethnic Studies” Bill 1108: Civic Engagement

    Ethnic Identity and Well-being

    In this paper

    the data gathered in 2004 and 2005 by the Coalición de Derechos Humanos (Derechos)

    a Tucson Arizona community-based human rights organization is summarized and analyzed within the framework of “Petit Apartheid.” The organization provides a much-needed service by assisting members of the Mexican-origin community

    many of which are undocumented workers

    file grievances against their employers. This is an important first step in making visible the routine unfair treatment of a virtually invisible workforce. The framework for analysis is useful because it centers on microaggressions: the “everyday instances of harm” that law enforcement agents inflict on members of racialized groups. I argue that the routine harsh and harmful treatment to which undocumented workers are systematically subjected is similarly a product of social attitudes that methodologically deprive them of employment stability and social progress and is therefore apartheid-like. Narratives from the Derechos archives flesh out the social spaces conducive to microaggression

    and at a broader level

    make visible the contradictions between employment practices and immigration law. Although too often in ignored in state and national immigration debates

    the voices emerging from these narratives illustrate how differences and inequality are informally enforced by way of employer-employee exchanges.

    Petit Apartheid in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: An Analysis of Community Organization Data Documenting Work force Abuses of the Undocumented

    Sanchez

    Azucena

    Although the seeds of legislated restrictions for immigrants can be traced to 1994 with California's unsuccessful Prop 187

    more recent trends epitomized by Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 signed into law in April 2010 have renewed concerns about the impact of such policies on the life and livelihood of immigrant communities. We argue that in Arizona

    emerging anti-immigrant policies that by design single out undocumented immigrants for exclusion grossly neglect important historical and geographical factors that have resulted in the prevalence of mixed immigration status households: domestic units in which the immigration status of at least one member is different from the others. As such

    this feature of social organization will make the implementation of such policies untenable.

    Anti-Immigrant Arizona: Ripple Effects and Mixed Immigration Status Households under 'Policies of Attrition' Considered

    In efforts to avoid detection by border enforcement agents

    undocumented migrants from Latin America often risk life and limb to enter the U.S. Most commonly

    they walk two to four days through an inhospitable desert in hopes of being picked up and whisked away to their final destination. Cost in human lives not withstanding

    the price of this venture correlates to increased border enforcement. Interviews with repatriated migrant women on the border helps uncover this economic “underbelly” of transnational movement in what I dub the ABCs of migration costs: those related to assembling

    bajadores (border bandits)

    and coyotes.

    The ABCs of Unauthorized Border Crossing Costs: Assembling

    Bajadores

    and Coyotes

    Interviews with migrant women have provided greater understanding not only of migrants’ encounters with U.S. immigration enforcement agents

    but also of the broader economic and social environments in which migration takes place. These experiences have been analyzed in order to render as complete a portrait as possible of migrant women who are temporarily suspended in a global “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes on the U.S.–Mexico border: immigration enforcement and transnational movement.

    Mujeres en el Cruce: Remapping Border Security through Migrant Mobility

    In this paper

    I discuss several findings of my study of migrant women

    temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: those posed by border enforcement measures and those posed by transnational mobility. A pressing issue that emerged from this research was how close women come to encountering death as they sidestep the border wall to cross without authorization into the US. Their testimonies shed light on how the intersection of contradictory processes contributes to a humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border in which the likelihood of death is increasingly present.

    Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind: Gender

    Migration

    and Border (In)Security

    Rascon

    Michelle

    Cabrera

    Nolan L

    In May of 2010

    a third ethnic studies ban bill managed to pass through Arizona's State House and Senate

    and Republican Governor Janice Brewer signed House Bill 2281 into law. Alongside the passage of SB 1070 in April of that same year

    Arizonans arrived at a historical tipping point

    brought about a by multiple forces including political parties and groups that increasingly rely on a racialized national ideology to undermine a historically subordinated group's claims of belonging by making them the object of fear and rage. In this chapter we analyze HB 2281

    Arizona's anti-Ethnic Studies law

    and discuss its implications for education

    health

    and the broader trend to exclude minority communities from greater democratic participation.

    Assault on Ethnic Studies.

    Anna

    O'Leary

    Binational Migration Institute (BMI)

    Pima Community College

MAS 265

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MAS 509

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