Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America

About the Contributors

219 About the Contributors Leisy Abrego is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include international migration, the effects of legal status on the well-being of immigrants and their families, gender , and the sociology of law. She has published articles in Latino Studies and Law & Social Inquiry about undocumented students’ access to higher education. She recently completed her dissertation in Sociology at UCLA on the effects of migrant parents’ legal status and gender on Salvadoran transnational families. JoAnn D’Alisera is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include transnational communities and identities, material culture, sacred space, Sierra Leone, and Islam . She is the author of An Imagined Geography: Sierra Leonean Muslims in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Joanna Dreby is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University . Her research on Mexican migrant families has been published in Gender & Society, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and Qualitative Sociology . She has also coauthored publications on child-care safety in the American Sociological Review, Contexts, and Teaching Sociology. Her book Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and Their Children is forthcoming from the University of California Press. Yen Le Espiri t u is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her latest book, Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries (University of California Press, 2003), received two national book awards. Her current research projects explore “rememorations” of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese and Vietnamese American transnational lives. 220 About the Contributors Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press, 2005); Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (edited with George Fredrickson; Russell Sage Foundation, 2004); Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York (University of California Press, 2001); New Immigrants in New York (rev. ed., Columbia University Press, 2001); and From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000). Greta Gilberts on is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University. Her interests include immigration, citizenship, and gender. Her work has appeared in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration Review, and Sociological Perspectives. She is currently working on a book on the dynamics of caregiving in Dominican immigrant families. Nazli Kibria is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Programs in Sociology at Boston University, where she teaches courses on immigration, contemporary South Asia, and the sociology of family and childhood. She was born in Bangladesh and received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous publications, including Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Becoming Asian American: Identities of Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). She is currently at work on a book on the lives of Bangladeshis around the world. Cecilia Menjí var is the Cowden Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University . Her research interests focus on the intersection between larger political and economic structures and the everyday lives of individuals. Within this general rubric, she has examined social processes of migration from Central America to the United States within specific legal and historical contexts. Her publications include Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (University of California Press, 2000) and About the Contributors 221 several edited volumes, and her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, among other journals. Jennifer E. Sykes is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University. Her research interests include social stratification , poverty and inequality, and child and family welfare. She has published in the area of child protection and is currently doing research on child-rearing strategies among immigrant and non-immigrant working poor in Boston. Mary C. Waters is the M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, where she has taught since 1986. She studies immigration , racial and ethnic identities, and intergroup...