Publications
Books
Havidán
Rodríguez, Rogelio Saenz and Cecilia Menjívar (Editors). 2008. Latinos/as
in the United States: Changing the Face of América.
New York: Springer.
Cecilia Menjívar and Nestor P. Rodriguez
(Editors). 2005. “When States Kill: Latin
America, the US and Technologies of Terror.” Austin,
TX: University
of Texas Press.
Cecilia Menjívar (Editor). 2003.“Through
the Eyes of Women: Gender, Social Networks, Family and Structural Change in
Latin America and the Caribbean.” Ontario,
Canada: De
Sitter Publications.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2000. “Fragmented Ties:
Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America.” Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press. (3rd
Printing)
William J. Goode
Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section, 2001.
Honorable
mention, Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, American
Sociological Association International Migration Section, 2001.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title in
Social and Behavioral Sciences (North America),
2002.
Adrian
Pantoja, Cecilia Menjívar, and Lisa Magaña (Guest editors). 2008. The Spring Marches of 2006: Latinos, Immigration, and
Political Mobilization in the 21st Century. American Behavioral Scientist, 52
December.
Introduction: “The Spring Marches of 2006: Latinos,
Immigration, and Political Mobilization in the 21st Century.” American Behavioral Scientist, 52:
499-506
Introduction:
“Public Religion and Immigration Across National
Borders.” American Behavioral Scientist,
49 (11): 1447-1454.
Cecilia Menjívar (Guest Editor). 2002. Structural Changes and Gender Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Special double
issue of the Journal of Developing Societies, 18(3-4).
Introduction:
“Structural Changes and Gender Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Journal of Developing Societies, 18
(2-3): 1-10.
*Reprinted
in “Through the Eyes of Women: Gender, Social Networks, Family and
Structural Change in Latin America and the Caribbean,”
edited by Cecilia Menjívar. Ontario, Canada:
De Sitter Publications (2003).
Refereed Articles:
Forthcoming
*Lilian Chavez and Cecilia Menjívar. “Niñ@’s sin Fronteras: A Mapping of the Literature on Unaccompanied
Migrant Children to the United
States.”
Migraciones Internacionales
Cecilia Menjívar.
2008. “Corporeal Dimensions of Gender
Violence: Women’s Self and Body in Eastern Guatemala.”
Studies in Social Justice, 2(1):
12-26
Cecilia Menjívar. 2008. “Educational Hopes, Documented Dreams: Guatemalan and
Salvadoran Immigrants’ Legality and Educational Prospects.” The ANNALS of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, 620 (1): 177-193
Cecilia Menjívar. 2008. “Violence and Women’s
Lives in Eastern Guatemala: A Conceptual
Framework.” Latin American Research
Review 43 (3): 109-136.
A
version was published as “Violence and Women’s Lives in Eastern
Guatemala: A Conceptual Framework.” Women and Development Working Paper Series, #290 (refereed), Michigan State University.
Victor
Agadjanian and Cecilia
Menjívar. 2008. “Talking through the “Epidemic of the Millennium”: Congregation-based
informal communication about HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.” Social Problems
55 (3): 301-321 (*lead article)
Cecilia Menjívar and Victor Agadjanian. 2007. “Men’s Migration and Women’s Lives:
Views from Rural Armenia and Guatemala.”
Social Science Quarterly 88 (5):
1243-1262.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2006. “Global Processes and
Local Lives: Guatemalan Women’s Work at Home and Abroad.” International Labor and Working Class History 70 (1): 86-105
(special issue on Globalization and the Latin American Workplace).
Cecilia Menjívar. 2006. “Family Reorganization in
a Context of Legal Uncertainty: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Immigrants in the United States.”
International Journal of Sociology of the
Family (special issue on Globalization and the Family), 32 (2): 223-245.
*Reprinted
in pp. 90-114, Globalization and the
Family, edited by Nazli Kibria and Sunil Kukreja. New Delhi, India:
Ashwin-Anoka Press, 2007.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2006. “Liminal
Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States.”
American Journal of Sociology, 111
(4): 999-1037.
*Featured
in Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research, as “Between ‘documented’
and ‘undocumented.’” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, 5 (4):
8-9 (2006)
Michelle
Moran-Taylor and Cecilia Menjívar.
2005. “Unpacking Notions of Return: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Migrants in Phoenix.” International
Migration, 43 (4): 91-131.
Cecilia
Menjívar and Cindy Bejarano. 2004. “Latino Immigrants’ Perceptions of
Crime and of Police Authorities: A Case Study From the
Phoenix
Metropolitan Area.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27(1): 120-148.
Cecilia Menjívar.
2003. “Reflections from One Latino Field: Notes from Research among
Central Americans in the United
States.” Cahiers des Amériques
Latines, 42 (1): 69-80.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2003.
“Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Salvadorans in Catholic
and Evangelical Communities in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Washington
D.C.” Sociology of Religion,
64 (1): 21-45.
٭Featured in Discoveries: New and
Noteworthy Social Research, as “Different Paths to Americanism,” Contexts:
Understanding People in their Social Worlds, 3 (2): 9 (2004)
Cecilia Menjívar and Sang Kil. 2002. “For Their
Own Good: Benevolent Rhetoric and Exclusionary Language in Public Officials’
Discourse on Immigrant-related Issues” Social Justice, 29(1-2): 160-176.
Cecilia
Menjívar and Olivia Salcido. 2002. “Immigrant Women and Domestic
Violence: Common Experiences in Different Countries.” Gender & Society,
16 (6): 898-920.
*Reprinted in pp. 123-136, Gender Through the Prism of Difference, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005 (3rd edition).
Cecilia Menjívar. 2002. “The Ties that Heal:
Guatemalan Immigrant Women’s Networks and Medical Treatment.” International
Migration Review, 36 (2): 437-466.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2002. “Living in two worlds?: Guatemalan-origin children in the United States and emerging transnationalism.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies, 28 (3): 531-552.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2001. “Latino Immigrants and
Their Perceptions of Religious Institutions: Cubans, Salvadorans, and
Guatemalans in Phoenix, AZ.” Migraciones Internacionales 1
(1): 65-88. (Invited, refereed article for inaugural issue.)
Emily
Skop and Cecilia Menjívar.
2001. “Phoenix:
The Newest Latino Immigrant Gateway?” Association
of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook, 63: 63-76.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1999.
“Religious Institutions and Transnationalism: A Case Study
of Catholic and Evangelical Salvadoran Immigrants.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 12 (4):
589-612.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1999. “The Intersection of Work
and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California.” American Behavioral Scientist, 42(4):
595-621.*
*
Reprinted in pp. 101-126, Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends,
edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Cecilia Menjívar, Julie Davanzo, Lisa Greenwell, and R.
Burciaga Valdez. 1998.
“Remittance Behavior of Filipino and Salvadoran Immigrants in Los Angeles.” International Migration Review, 32 (1): 99-128.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1997. “Immigrant Kinship
Networks and the Impact of the Receiving Context: Salvadorans in San Francisco in the
early 1990s.” Social Problems, 44
(1): 104-123.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1997. “Immigrant Kinship
Networks: The Case of Vietnamese, Salvadoreans, and
Mexicans in Comparative Perspective” Journal
of Comparative Family Studies, 28 (1): 1-24. (*lead article)
Cecilia Menjívar. 1996. “Continiudad, transformación o ruptura?:
las experiencias de refugiadas salvadoreñas en Estados Unidos” Revista Mundial de Sociología (World Review of Sociology) 2: 51-84.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1995. “Kinship Networks Among
Recent Immigrants: Lessons from a Qualitative Comparative Approach” International Journal of Comparative
Sociology, 36 (3-4): 97-109.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1995. “Immigrant Social
Networks: Implications and Lessons for Policy.” Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy 8: 35-59.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1994. “Salvadorean
Migration to the United
States in the 1980s: What Can We Learn About it and From it?” International Migration 32 (3): 371-401. (*lead article)
Cecilia Menjívar. 1993. “History, Economy, and
Politics: Macro and Micro-level Factors in Recent Salvadorean
Migration to the United
States.” Journal
of Refugee Studies 6 (4): 350-371.
Chapters
in Edited Volumes (editor, board, or
peer reviewed):
Forthcoming
Cecilia Menjívar. Forthcoming.
“Poverty and Gender Among Latinos/as in the U.S.” The
International Handbook on Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy,
edited Sylvia Chant. UK:
Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cecilia Menjívar.
Forthcoming. “Immigrant Art as Liminal Expression: The Case of Central Americans.” In Immigration and Art,
edited by Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly. New
Jersey: Rutgers
University Press.
Cecilia Menjívar. Forthcoming.
“Children and Immigration: Historical and Cultural Perspectives.” The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion,
edited by Richard A. Shweder, Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne
D. Dixon, Peggy J. Miller, and John Modell. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press
Sang
Kil, Cecilia Menjívar, and Roxanne Doty. 2009. “Securing Borders: Patriotism, Vigilantism and the
Brutalization of the US
American Public.” Pp. 297-312 in Immigration, Crime, and Justice, edited by William
F. McDonald. Bingley, UK: Emerald/JAI Press.
Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy Abrego. 2009. “Parents
and Children across Borders: Legal Instability and Intergenerational
Relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran Families.” Pp.
160-189 in Across Generations: Immigrant
Families in America, edited by Nancy Foner.
New York: New York University
Press.
Translated
into Italian as, “Genitori e figli
confine: instabilità legale
e rapporti intergenerazionali
nelle famiglie guatemalteche e salvadoregne.” Famiglie Migranti, ed Maurizio Ambrosini,
in Mondi Migranti:
Rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazione internazionali, 1: 7-34, 2009 (lead article in first
issue).
Nestor Rodríguez and Cecilia Menjívar. 2009. “Central Americans and Racialization in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Pp.
183-199 in How the United States Racializes Latinos:
White Hegemony and its Consequences, edited by José A. Cobas,
Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin. Boulder & London: Paradigm
Publishers.
Cecilia Menjívar
and Rubén G. Rumbaut.
2008. “Rights of Migrants and Minorities.” Pp 60-74 in The Leading Rogue
State: The U.S. and Human Rights, edited by Judith Blau,
David L. Brunsma, Alberto Moncada, and Catherine
Zimmer. Boulder,
CO & London: Paradigm Publishers.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2007. “Salvadorans.” Pp.
412-420 in The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965,” edited
by Mary Waters and Reed Ueda. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2006. “Serving Christ in the
Borderlands: Faith Workers Respond to Border Violence.” Pp.
104-121 in Religion and Social Justice
for Immigrants, edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. New York: Rutgers
University Press
Sang
Hea Kil and Cecilia Menjívar.
2006. “The “War on the Border:” The Criminalization of Immigrants and the
Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border.”
Pp. 164-188 in Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race and Violence,
edited by Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela Jr. New
York: York
University Press.
Cecilia
Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez. 2005. “State Terror in the U.S.-Latin
American Interstate Regime. Pp. 3-27 in When States Kill: Latin America, the
U.S. and Technologies of
Terror Austin: University of Texas
Press.
Cecilia
Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez.
2005. “New Responses to State Terror.” Pp. 335-346 in When States Kill:
Latin America, the U.S.
and Technologies of Terror. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2005. “Immigrants and
Refugees.” Pp. 307-318 in Companion to Gender Studies,
edited by Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, and
Audrey Kobayashi. London:
Blackwell Publishers.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2004. “Teen Life in El Salvador.” Pp. 155-171 in Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean,
edited by Cynthia Tompkins and Kristen Sternberg. Westford, Conn:
Greenwood Publishing Group Co.
Flavio Francisco Marsiglia and Cecilia Menjívar. 2004. “Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Children
and Families.” Pp. 253-273 in Culturally Competent
Practice with Immigrant Children and Families, edited by Rowena Fong.
New York: Guilford Publications.
Cecilia Menjívar and Lisa Magaña. 2002. “Immigration to Arizona:
Diversity and Change.” Pp. 53-71 in Arizona Hispanics: The
Evolution of Influence, 81st Arizona Town Hall,
edited by Louis Olivas. Tempe: Arizona State
University.
Geeta Chowdhry and
Cecilia Menjívar.
2002. “(En)Gendering Development, Race(ing) Women’s Studies: Core Issues in Teaching Gender and
Development.” Pp. 133-152 in Ecompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women’s Studies,
edited by Mary L.Lay, Janice Monk, and Deborah S. Rosenfelt. New
York: The Feminist Press.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1999. “Salvadorans and
Nicaraguans: Refugees Become Workers.” Pp. 232-253 in Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference
Handbook, edited by David Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum.
Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood
Press.
Anita
Leal and Cecilia Menjívar.
1992. “Xenophobia or Xenophilia?:
Hispanic Women in Higher Education,”. Pp. 93-103 in Perspectives on Minority Women in Higher
Education, edited by L.B. Welch. New York,
Westport & London: Praeger.
Encyclopedia
Contributions
Cecilia Menjívar.
Forthcoming. “Salvadorans” In ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of American Immigration, edited by Elliott R.
Barkan
Cecilia Menjívar. 2008. “Central Americans.” Pp. 278-282 in Encyclopedia
of Race and Racism, 3 vols. ed.
by John Hartwell Moore. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2006. “Social Networks.” Pp.
313-316 in Immigration in America Today: An Encyclopedia, edited by James Loucky, Jeanne
Armstrong, and Larry J. Estrada. Westport
CT: Greenwood.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2006. “Central Americans.” Pp.
134-137 in Latinas in the United States: An
Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2005. “Central Americans.” Pp. 294-303 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos
and Latinas in the United States (Vol.1),
edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2001. “Central
America.” Pp. 1099-1108 in Encyclopedia of American Immigration, edited by James Ciment. Armonk, New York:
M.E. Sharpe.
Menjívar, Cecilia.
2000. “Immigration.” Pp. 1123-1126 in Routledge
International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge,
Volume 3, edited by Cheris Kramarae
and Dale Spender. New York:
Routledge.
Book Reviews
Forthcoming
Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning of the Undocumented Journey, by
Jacqueline Maria Hagan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2008. Contemporary Sociology,
Forthcoming God’s Heart Has No Borders: How Religious
Activists are Working for Immigrant Rights, by Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2008. Journal of Church and State
(2009)
God Needs No
Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape, by Peggy
Levitt. New York & London: The New Press. Amerian Journal of Sociology, 114 (5):
1578-1580. (2009)
Deflecting
Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles, by Ivan Light. Russell Sage
Foundation, 2006. Social Forces 87 (2): 1158-1161.
(2008)
Sacred Assemblies
and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America’s Newest Immigrants. By Fred Kniss and Paul D. Numrich. 2007. New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 2007. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion:
47
(3): 522-523. (2008)
Landscapes of
Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador, edited by Aldo
Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg
Press, 2004. Journal of Latin American
Anthropology, 11 (2): 471-473. (2006)
Immigrants at the
Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe,
by Kitty Calavita. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005. Law & Society Review, 40
(4): 965-967. (2006)
Paradise in Ashes, by Beatriz
Manz. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2004. Contemporary Sociology 34 (6): 653-655.
(2005)
Salvadoran
Migration to Southern California: Redefining
El Hermano Lejano, by Beth
Baker-Cristales. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida,
2004. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10 (1): 251-252. (2005)
A Courtship after
Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families, by Jennifer S.
Hirsch. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2003. Gender & Society 19 (1): 126-128. (2005)
Gender
in Latin America, by Sylvia Chant, with Nikki Craske.
New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Rutgers University Press, 2003. Gender &
Society 18 (1): 146-147. (2004)
Salvadorans in Costa Rica: Displaced
Lives, by Bridget A. Hayden. Tucson, Ariz.: The University
of Arizona Press, 2003. Contemporary
Sociology, 33 (3): 331-332. (2004)
Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in
the Shadows of Affluence. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2001. Journal of
Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (1): 174-175 (2003).
Gender and
International Migration in Europe: Employment,
Welfare and Politics. Eleonore Kofman, Annie Phizacklea,
Parvati Raghuram, and
Rosemary Sales. London:
Routledge, 2000. Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies, 28 (3): 571 (2002).
Free Markets,
Open Societies, Closed Borders?: Trends in
International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas. Max J. Castro, editor. Miami, Florida: North-South Center
Press at the University
of Miami,1999. Journal of Latin American Studies, 34: 472-473
(2002).
Seeking
Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles. Nora Hamilton and Norma
Stoltz Chinchilla. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2001. Contemporary
Sociology, 31 (2): 174-175 (2002).
The Mercy
Factory: Refugees and the American Asylum System. Christopher J. Einolf. Chicago,
Il: Ivan
R. Dee Publisher, 2001. Journal of Refugee Studies, 14 (4): 449-450
(2001).
Legalizing
Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency. Susan Bibler Coutin. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 2000. International Migration Review, 35 (3) 936-937 (2001).
Growing
Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III. New
York: Russell Sage Foundation,1998. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 9
(1): 131-133 (2000).
No More Kin:
Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks. Anne R. Roschelle. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications,1997. Journal of
Marriage and the Family 60 (3): 797-798 (1998).
International
Migration, Refugee Flows and Human Rights in North America:
The Impact of Trade and Restructuring. Alan B. Simmons, editor. New York: Center for
Migration Studies,1996. Journal of Refugee Studies 11 (2): 251-253 (1998).
The Other Argentina: The
Interior and National Development. Larry Sawyers. Boulder: Westview Press,1996. Economic Development and Cultural Change
46 (3): 663-669 (1998).
The Other Side of the Asian American
Story. Wendy
Walker-Moffat. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass Publishers,1995.
Journal of Refugee Studies 10 (1):
101-103 (1997).
From Vietnam, Laos,
and Cambodia: A Refugee
Experience in the United
States. Jeremy Hein. New York: Twayne
Publishers (Simon & Schuster Macmillan),1995. Journal of Refugee Studies 9 (2):
217-219 (1996).
Working Papers, Reports and Conference
Proceedings
Cecilia Menjívar. 2009. “Who Belongs and Why: Guatemalan Migration
and the U.S.
Moral Obligations.” Society, 46 (5):
Cecilia Menjívar. 2008. “Unaccompanied Migrant
Children: A First Step at Mapping What We Know.” Report prepared for FUNDEMEX,
ASU’s Office of the President, and the First Lady of Mexico. April 27th.
(CePoD Working Paper #2008-108)
Cecilia Menjívar. 2005. “Migraciones, Familia y Redes Sociales.” In Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano (Human Development Report), United Nations
Development Program, San Salvador, El Salvador.
Cecilia Menjívar.
2000. “Networks and Religious Communities Among
Salvadoran Immigrants in San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Phoenix.” Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University
of California, San Diego, Working Paper 25.
Cecilia Menjívar et al. 1999. “Contemporary
Latino Migration to the Phoenix
Metropolitan Area.” Report presented to the Center for Urban Inquiry, Arizona State University.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1995. “Social Networks Among Salvadorans in California.”
Pp. 47-51 in Central Americans in California:
Transnational Communities, Economies and Cultures. Edited
by Nora Hamilton and Norma Chinchilla. The Center for
Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern
California, Occasional Papers Series, Monograph
Paper No.1.
Cecilia Menjívar. 1994. “Social Networks
Dynamics: Implications for Salvadoreans in San Francisco.” University of California, Berkeley Chicano/Latino
Policy Project Working Paper, Vol 2, No.1.
Other Non-refereed Professional
Publications
Cecilia Menjívar. 2008. “Los inmigrantes salvadoreños en “limbo legal” en
Estados Unidos.” El Faro Académico, El Faro (El Salvador’s
on line newspaper)
November 26th. http://www.elfaro.net/secciones/academico/20081124/academico1.asp
Cecilia Menjívar. “Response to Levitt (on
Transnational Migration).” Contexts. 2004
Cecilia
Menjívar. 2001. “‘Papers’ offer
opportunity, justice for undocumented.” The Arizona
Republic, Sunday,
August 5, 2001, V3.
*Reprinted
in the Newsletter of the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division, Society for
the Study of Social Problems, Fall 2001.
Cecilia Menjívar 2001. “Latino
Immigrants and Views of Crime and Police Authorities in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” World on the Move, Newsletter of the International Migration
Section, American Sociological Association, Volume 7, Number 2. (Spring)