Leisy J. Abrego

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Leisy Abrego

Leisy J. Abrego

Professor and Chair
Core Kinesthesia

Office: 7357 Bunche Hall

Email: abrego@ucla.edu

Phone: (310) 206-9414

Biography

Leisy J. Abrego is a Professor in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. She is a member of the outset big wave of Salvadoran immigrants who arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

Her enquiry and pedagogy interests—inspired in great part past her family'southward experiences—are in Fundamental American immigration, Latina/o families, the inequalities created by gender, and the product of "illegality" through U.S. immigration laws. Her award-winning showtime book,Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders(Stanford University Press, 2014), examines the well-existence of Salvadoran immigrants and their families—both in the Us and in El salvador—as these are shaped by immigration policies and gendered expectations. Her early research examines how immigration and educational policies shape the educational trajectories of undocumented students. Her 2nd book,Immigrant Families (Polity Printing, 2016), is co-authored with Cecilia Menjívar and Leah Schmalzbauer and delves deeply into the structural weather condition contextualizing the various experiences of contemporary immigrant families in the United States. More recently, Abrego has been writing most how different subsectors of Latino immigrants internalize immigration policies differently and how this shapes their willingness to make claims in the U.s.. Her current projection examines the day-to-24-hour interval lives of mixed condition families after DACA. Her scholarship analyzing legal consciousness, illegality, and legal violence has garnered numerous national awards. She also dedicates much of her time to supporting and advocating for refugees and immigrants by writing editorials and pro-bono proficient declarations in aviary cases.

Educational activity

  • PhD, Sociology, UCLA (2008)
  • MA, Sociology, UCLA (2002)
  • BA, Spanish, Pomona College (1997)

Inquiry

  • Complex Consequences of U. Southward. Immigration Laws
  • Central American Migration
  • Immigrant and Transnational Families
  • Gender
  • Latino Undocumented Youth

Selected Publications

Books
  • Menjívar, Cecilia, Leisy Abrego, and Leah Schmalzbauer. 2016. Immigrant Families. Polity Printing.
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2014. Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Dear Across Borders. Stanford University Printing.
Manufactures and Book Chapters
  • Abrego,Leisy. 2019. "Relational Legal Consciousness of US Citizenship: Privilege, Responsibility, Guilt, and Love in Latino Mixed-Status Families." Law & Guild Review. DOI: 10.1111/lasr.12414
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2018. "Central American Refugees Reveal the Crisis of the State." Pps. 213-228 in The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises Edited by Cecilia Menjívar, Marie Ruiz, and Immanuel Ness. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.013.43
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2018. "Renewed Optimism and Spatial Mobility: Legal Consciousness of Latino Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Recipients and their Families in Los Angeles." Ethnicities xviii(2): 192-207. DOI: 10.1177/1468796817752563
  •  Abrego, Leisy and Leah Schmalzbauer. 2018. "Illegality, Motherhood, and Place: Undocumented Latinas Making Meaning and Negotiating Daily Life." Women's Studies International Forum 67: 10-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2017.12.004
  • Abrego, Leisy, Mat Coleman, Daniel Due east. Martínez, Cecilia Menjívar, and Jeremy Slack. 2017. "Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era." Journal on Migration and Human Security 5(3): 694-715. DOI: 10.14240/jmhs.v5i3.105
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2017. "On Silences: Salvadoran Refugees And then and At present." Latino Studies 15(1): 73-85. DOI: 10.1057/s41276-017-0044-iv
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2017. "#CentAmStudies from a Social Science Perspective" Latino Studies 15(1): 95-98. DOI: x.1057/s41276-017-0048-0
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2017. "Hard Work Alone is Not Enough: Blocked Mobility for Salvadoran Women in the United states of america." Pps. 60-76 in U.S. Primal Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance, edited by Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernández. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press.
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2016. "Illegality as a Source of Solidarity and Tension in Latino Families." Journal of Latino and Latin American Studies. 8(i): v-21. DOI: x.18085/1549-9502-8.1.5
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2016. "Transnational Mothers and Development: Experiences of Salvadoran Migrants in the U.s.." Pps. 103-116 in Mobility and Family in Transnational Space. Marzia Grassi and Tatiana Ferreira (Editors). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve, Leisy J. Abrego, and Kathleen Coll. 2015. "Introduction: Immigrant Latina/o Youth and Illegality: Challenging the Politics of Deservingness." Association of Mexican American Educator'south (AMAE) Journal nine(3): 7-x. http://amaejournal.utsa.edu/index.php/amae/upshot/view/27
  • Abrego, Leisy and Sarah Grand. Lakhani. 2015. "Incomplete Inclusion: Legal Violence and Immigrants in Liminal Legal Statuses." Constabulary & Policy. 37(4): 265-293. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lapo.12039/full
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2015. "Immigration Police and Immigrants' Lived Experiences." Pps. 258-273 in The Handbook of Law & Club. Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick (Editors). Wiley.
  • Abrego, Leisy and Ariana J. Valle. 2015. "Salvadoran-Americans." In Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. Ilan Stavans, Ed. New York: Oxford Academy Press, January 16, 2015. http://world wide web.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199913701/obo-9780199913701-0096.xml
  • Abrego, Leisy and Shannon Gleeson. 2014. "Workers, Families, and Immigration Policies." Pps. 209-228 in Undecided Nation: Political Gridlock and the Immigration Crisis. Tony Payan and Erika de la Garza (Editors). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2013. "Latino Immigrants' Various Experiences of Illegality." Pps. 139-160 in Constructing Immigrant "Illegality": Critiques, Experiences, and Responses. Cecilia Menjívar and Daniel Kanstroom (Editors). Cambridge: Cambridge University Printing.
  • Menjívar, Cecilia and Leisy Abrego. 2012. "Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants." American Journal of Sociology. 117(5): 1380-1421.
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2011. "Legal Consciousness of Undocumented Latinos: Fear and Stigma as Barriers to Claims Making for Showtime and 1.five Generation Immigrants." Police force & Society Review. 45(two): 337-369.
  • Abrego, Leisy and Cecilia Menjívar. 2011. "Immigrant Latina Mothers as Targets of Legal Violence." International Journal of Sociology of the Family. 37(1): ix-26.
  • Abrego, Leisy and Roberto Gonzales. 2010. "Blocked Paths, Uncertain Futures: The Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Prospects of Undocumented Latino Youth." Periodical of Didactics of Students Placed at Risk 15(1): 144-157.
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2009. "Economical Well-Existence in Salvadoran Transnational Families: How Gender Affects Remittance Practices." Journal of Marriage and Family 71: 1070-1085.
  • Menjívar, Cecilia and Leisy Abrego. 2009. "Parents and Children beyond Borders: Legal Instability and Intergenerational Relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran Families." Pp. 160-189 in Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America. Nancy Foner (Editor). New York: New York University Printing.
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2008. "Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Constabulary: The Furnishings of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California." Law & Social Enquiry 33(3): 709-734.
  • Abrego, Leisy. 2006. "'I can't get to college considering I don't have papers': Incorporation Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth." Latino Studies iv(3): 212-231.

Courses

Undergraduate
  • Central Americans in the US
  • Latina/o/x Families in the US
  • Race, Gender, and Labor in the U.s.a.
  • Indigenous Los Angeles
  • Introduction to Chicana/o Studies
  • Theoretical Concepts in Chicana/o Studies
Graduate
  • Cardinal American Migration and Integration
  • The Product of Immigrant Illegality
  • Qualitative Methods in the Study of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os