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Marla Ramirez
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Education/Degree:
1 Chicana and Chicano Studies (University of California, Santa Barbara)
About
Marla Andrea Ramírez is a social historian of the US-Mexico borderlands who specializes in oral history, the Mexican repatriation program, social and legal histories of Mexican migrations, and gendered migration experiences. For the 2018-19 academic year, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard where she is working on her first book manuscript. She also holds an assistant professor position in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. Professor Ramírez received her PhD in Chicana and Chicano studies with an emphasis on feminist studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2015) and previously held a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies (2015-16).
Current Work
Professor Ramírez's current book project, “Con,ed Illegality: The Mexican Repatriation Program and Prolonged Consequences Across Three Generations,” examines the immigration policies of the Great Depression era, focusing on the experiences of Mexican repatriation and unconstitutional banishment of US-citizen children of Mexican descent that tore apart thousands of families across the US-Mexico border. She is the author of “The Making of Mexican Illegality: Immigration Exclusions Based on Race, Class Status, and Gender,” which appeared in New Political Science: A Journal of Politics & Culture in 2018. Her forthcoming article, “The Legacy of Mexican Repatriation: Negotiating Gender, Intimacy, and Family Formation in the Borderlands,” will appear in a special issue on “Gender and Intimacy Across the US-Mexico Borderlands” in Pacific Historical Review. Professor Ramírez’s research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, the San Francisco State University’s Development for Research and Creativity Grant, the Ford Foundation, and the University of California’s Fletcher Jones Fellowship.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Citizenship, illegality, immigration, Latin American and Latina/o studies, mass deportations, Mexican repatriation