Conference on Gender, Families,
and Latino Immigration in Oregon

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Patricia Zavella

Professor and Chair, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz

Ph.D., Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

Research Focus
The relationship between women's wage and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality, and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital. Currently she is writing a book entitled Negotiating Mexican Identity: Formations of Gender, Family and Community through Migration.

Selected Publications-Books:
Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader, co-edited with Denise A. Segura. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, co-edited with Gabriela Arredondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, and Olga Nájera Ramírez. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation co-edited with Matthew C. Gutmann, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, and Lynn Stephen. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios co-authored with Luz del Alba Acevedo, Norma Alarcón, Celia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, Rina Benmayor, Norma E. Cantú. Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Gloria Holguín Cuádraz, Liza Fiol-Matta, Yvette Flores-Ortiz, Inés Hernández-Avila, Aurora Levins Morales, Clara Lomas, Iris López, Mirtha N. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, and Caridad Souza. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.