NCID-2976
Kristina Fullerton Rico
Predoctoral Fellow, Center for Racial Justice, Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Ph.D. in Progress (ABD) in Sociology (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
About
I conduct binational ethnographic research that focuses on unauthorized immigrants and their physically distant, digitally close families in Mexico and the United States. Specifically, I focus on how the consequences of anti-immigration policies are experienced in everyday life, how siblings who live in different countries relate to each other, and how individuals navigate immigrant exclusion in later life. My research is at the intersection of migration and transnational studies, the sociology of family, the sociology of aging, gender studies, and the sociology of death and dying.
Current Work
Contemporary U.S. immigration policies lead unauthorized immigrants and their families to endure long-term separation. Kristina Fullerton Rico’s current projects focus on the experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrants in New York City who are aging out of the workforce, the experiences of older return migrants who find themselves in Mexico after decades in the United States because they were unable to adjust their immigration status, and the experiences of separated parents and children. She’s been doing this research in Central Mexico and New York City since 2017.
Research Area Keyword(s)
immigration, families, Aging, gender, interpersonal communication technologies