Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age

Contributors

Contributors pallavi banerjee is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of sociology of immigration, gender, transnational labor, and minority families; globalization; and feminist theory. Her dissertation, entitled “Constructing Dependence : Visa Regimes and Gendered Migration in Families of Migrant Indian Workers,” explores how certain immigration policies and visa regimes of United States affect families of migrant Indian professional workers in the United States. Her current project explores how transnational and global corporations influence state policies that foster a gendered and racialized labor migration from the global South to the North. grace chang is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she teaches research methods and ethics; globalization and resistance; and grassroots, transnational feminist movements for social justice. She is the author of Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy (South End Press, 2000) and is now completing her new book, Trafficking by Any Other Name: Transnational Feminist, Immigrant and Sex Worker Rights Responses, to be published by the New Press. She serves on the research advisory board for a project with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, supported by the Ford Foundation, to conduct a national survey on domestic workers and employers. margaret m. chin is an associate professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include family, immigration, the working poor, ethnic communities, 280 . CONTRIBUTORS and Asian Americans. She is the author of Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry (Columbia University Press, 2005). Her current project focuses on Asian Americans who lost their jobs during the Great Recession of 2008. jennifer jihye chun is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her areas of specialization include comparative labor organizing; culture, power, and politics; race, gender, and migration; and transnational mobility. She is the author of Organizing at the Margins : The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (Cornell University Press, 2009). Her second book project is an in-depth case study of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in the San Francisco Bay Area. héctor r. cordero-guzmán is a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College (CUNY) and in the PhD programs in Sociology and in Urban Education at the City University of New York (CUNY). Over his career, CorderoGuzm án has collaborated with many government, research, philanthropic, and community-based organizations, and his research, publications, and policy work have focused on issues related to education, employment, labor markets, poverty, race/ethnicity and inequality, nonprofit organizations, international migration, transnational processes, social movements, economic development, and social welfare policy. He worked as a program officer in the Economic Development and Quality Employment Units at the Ford Foundation where he developed and managed a portfolio supporting organizations that focused on providing services and expanding opportunities for low-wage workers. emir estrada is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California. Sparked by her own immigration experiences, her research focuses on immigrants from Mexico and Central America who work in the informal sector of unregulated or semiregulated jobs. More specifically, she examines children’s involvement in the informal sector and their role in the family’s economic survival. lucy t. fisher is assistant adjunct professor in the School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Her research interests include gerontology and long-term care, chronic mental illness, and immigrant women in the health-care profession. Much of her work focuses on nursing homes and the interprofessional training of health-care providers. Fisher was the director of the Transitions to Adulthood Plans Study, an ethnographic study of families of youth with concomitant developmental and physical disabilities and the adolescents’ transition to CoNtrIBUtors · 281 adulthood. She is a member on the California Commission on Aging. Currently, she is part of a team collaborating with a community-based nonprofit translating TAPS findings into an intervention study for families with a disabled youth. nilda flores-gonzález is an associate professor with a joint appointment in Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on race and ethnicity, identity, immigration, and education among Latino youth. She is the author of School Kids, Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students (Teachers College Press...