Gender, Families and Immigration in the Northwest
Project Participants - bios and articles: LYNN STEPHEN
Lynn Stephen, Profesora Distinguida de Antropología en la Universidad de Oregon, ha enfocado su trabajo de investigación sobre le relación entre la cultural y la política. Nacida en Chicago, Illinois, ella le interesa la manera en que identidades políticos se relacionen con clase, genero, etnicidad y nacionalismo. Durante los ultimo 8 anos ella trabaja también con el tema de migración entre México y los Estados Unidos—especialiamente del estado de Oaxaca. Su nuevo libro se llama Vidas Transfronterizas: Oaxaqueños Indígenas en México, California y Oregon. Sus últimos tres libros incluyen Mujeres Zapotecs: Genero, Clase y Etnicidad en Oaxaca Globalizada (2005), Zapata Vive! Historia y Cultura Política en el Sur de México (2002) y Perspectivas en Las Américas: Cultura, Historía y Representación (2003—co-editado con Matt Gutmann, Félix Matos Rodríguez y Patricia Zavella). Ella ha recibido becas del National Endowment for Humanities, The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, the National Science Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Inter-American Foundation. Tiene un compromiso de llevar a cabo investigaciones colaborativas y de crear proyectos que resultan en conclusiones y productos que pueden interesar un publico amplio. En los ultimos cinco años ha colaborado con Pineros y Campesinos del Nordoeste (PCUN), CAUSA (coalición en Oregon dedicada a derechos de inmigrantes), Rural Organizing Project (red de 60 organizaciónes dedicadas a una política de igualdad y justicia social), Juventud FACETA, y 12 cooperativas de tejadores/as de Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. Su trabajo de investigación más reciente esta enfocada en la formación de identidades y la participación cívica y política de jóvenes inmigrantes Mexicanos. Articles by Lynn Stephen:
MARCELA MENDOZA
Articles by Marcella Mendoza:
MAURICIO MAGANA
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The Gender, Families, and Immigration in the Northwest (GFINW) Project will generate research and analysis about gender and family dynamics among changing immigrant communities in the Northwest and make that research accessible to and in conversation with policy makers, social service providers, and immigrant rights advocates. GFINW will carry out a number of activities including an annual speaker series, workshops for researchers, meetings of a community-based advisory board, and a conference during 2008 that will create a space for dialogue among the Northwest immigrant community, immigrant rights and community-based organizations, policy makers, and social service provider who work with immigrant communities and families. Researchers affiliated with the project are currently engaged in research projects on Mexican immigrant youth and on the integration of immigrant families in rural Oregon.
The work of Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, has centered on the intersection of culture and politics. Born in Chicago, Illinois she has a particular interest in the ways that political identities articulate with ethnicity, gender, class, and nationalism in relation to local, regional, and national histories, cultural politics, and systems of governance in Latin America. During the past eight years she has added the dimension of migration to her research. Her newest book is titled Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (March, 2007, Duke University Press). Her three most recent books are Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca (2005), Zapata Lives!: Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico (2002) and Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (2003), co-edited with Matt Gutmann, Felix Matos Rodríguez, and Pat Zavella. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities, The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and research grants from the National Science Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Inter-American Foundation. She has a strong commitment to collaborative research and in projects that produce findings that are accessible to the wider public. She has most recently collaborated with Pineros y Campesinos del Nordoeste (PCUN), CAUSA ( Oregon immigrant rights coalition), Rural Organizing Project, Juventud FACETA, and twelve weaving cooperatives from Teotitlán del Valle in her work. Her most recent research focuses on identity formation and the political and civic participation among Mexican immigrant youth. 
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. 
Mauricio Magaña is working as a research assistant on the Gender, Family and Immigration in the Northwest initiative. He is a graduate student in the cultural anthropology program at the University of Oregon. Mauricio received his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of South Florida in 2004. He has worked on community and occupational health issues with coffee growers in Costa Rica, as well as on human rights work in Chiapas, Mexico. His research interests include immigration, social movements in Latin America, alternative responses to neoliberalism, human rights, and land reform.