Leo ChavezProfessor, Anthropology |
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Research Interests |
International migration, Latin American immigrants, medical anthropology, transnational communities, breast and cervical cancer beliefs, analysis of visual images | |
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Research Abstract |
My research interests have focused on international migration; household and family organization, composition, and structure; medical anthropology; breast and cervical cancer among Latinas; the anthropology of power relations; and more recently the analysis of visual images related to immigration and the nation. I have worked on topics such as family organization and work; access to medical care for immigrants; the imagined community and undocumented immigrants; and cultural models of cancer risks among Latinas, Anglo women and physicians. Although my earlier work was in Latin America (Ecuador), more recently I have worked with Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States. | |
| Publications | Undocumented Immigrants in Orange County, California: A Comparative Analysis." International Migration Review 31:88-107, 1997. | |
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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992. 2nd edition 1998. |
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| Immigration Reform and Nativism: The Nationalist Response to the Transnationalist Challenge." In, Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States, Juan Perea (ed.). Pp. 61-77. New York: New York University Press, 1997. | ||
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"The Power of the Imagined Community: The Settlement of Undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States." American Anthropologist 96, 1994. |
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"Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors: A Comparison of Perceptions among Latinas, Anglo women, and Physicians." [authored with F. Allan Hubbell, Juliet M. McMullin, Rebecca G. Martinez, and Shiraz I. Mishra]. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9:4--74, 1995. |
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| Last updated | 03/15/2002 | |