Conference on Gender, Families,
and Latino Immigration in Oregon

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Marcela Mendoza

Professor, University of Oregon and Oregon State University

Dr. Marcela Mendoza is an adjunt assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. She has more than twenty years of experience in teaching and research at the University of Buenos Aires, and at universities in the U.S. She has conducted fieldwork with indigenous peoples of the South American Gran Chaco, and published extensively on the issue. Mendoza has also worked with Mexican immigrants in the South. From 2000 to 2005, her work as a researcher for the project “Across Race and Nations: Building New Communities in the South” has been supported by the Ford, Rockefeller, and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations. Her research on immigration has been supported also by internal and external grants at the University of Memphis. In addition, she has published three refereed articles, three book chapters, fourteen broad-audience publications, and has given numerous presentations on the topic of recent Latino immigration in Tennessee, including the experience of immigrant women and families. Her latest article (in collaboration with Drs. E. Gonzales-Berry and D. Plaza) is about “One-and-a-half Generation Mexican Youth in Oregon: Pursuing the Mobility Dream.” Dr. Mendoza is a Latin American immigrant herself with an experiential understanding of the challenges and rewards of settling a family in the U.S.

Articles by Marcella Mendoza:

Latino Immigrants in Memphis..., Their Local Economic Impact

New 2000 Estimates of the Hispanic Population for Shelby County Tennesee

Latino Immigrant Women in Memphis

The New Latino Workforce: Employers Experiences in Memphis

(In collaboration with E. Gonzales-Berry and D. Plaza) Segmented Assimilation of One-and-a-Half Generation Mexican Youth in Oregon. Latino(a) Research Review Volume 6, Numbers 1-2, 2006-2007 Webpage: www.albany.edu/cela

The World on Time: Flexible Labor, New Immigrants

Ghosts in the Global Machine: New Immigrants and the Redefinition of Work

One-And-A-Half Generation Mexican Youth in Oregon: Pursuing the Mobility

El Impacto de los Inmigrantes Latinos en la Economia de Memphis, Tennesee

Echando Raices: Latin American Settlement in Memphis

Latinos in Oregon