Briana Nichols
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3638907 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Briana Nichols |
| NOMBRES | Briana |
| APELLIDO | Nichols |
| FIRMA | NICHOLS B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3001-3836 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
It’s a Life Lesson
This study investigates how unconditional cash supports financial learning and well-being among young people, particularly those from low-income and racially minoritized communities. The research draws on the qualitative sub-strand of the larger, mixed-methods Youth Cash Transfer (YCT) study, which provided high school students ages 14 to 20 with $50 weekly in unconditional cash for 10 months. Interview findings show that the cash transfers promp…
Being free’
Taking migration discourse (Dick 2010, 2013; Dick and Arnold 2017) as a starting point, this paper examines how Indigenous youth in Guatemala navigate and understand complex migratory contexts at home before they decide, or are compelled, to migrate. Using methods of discourse analysis, I illuminate how talk about migration becomes a key site for young people to challenge transnational migration as an opportunity and thereby create alternate spat…
On Our Own Terms
This extensively researched and thoughtful volume examines the connections between development, Indigeneity, and Cold War geopolitics in Guatemala. Sarah Foss explores how development policy is implemented by everyday actors and is navigated by the populations targeted by state development programs. In so doing, Foss demonstrates how the concepts of development and modernity “are historically contingent, highly contextualized, and constantly nego…
Contesting educational imaginaries at the intersection of migration and transnational development in Guatemala
Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic engagement in Guatemala with Indigenous youth, local community organizations, and transnational nongovernmental organizations, this article examines how young people imagine and work toward alternative futures at the intersection of extensive migration and a developmentalist push for educational attainment. I show how, within the development infrastructures generated by migration, contrasting futures are rende…
Nothing is easy
This paper ethnographically explores how indigenous Guatemalan youth come to desire non-migration despite local social-geographical contexts of extensive mobility. The 2014 the emergence of a ‘crisis’ of youth migration at the U.S. Southern border drew attention to the deep and longer-term reality of untenable conditions in the countries young people are fleeing. While significant scholarship has been dedicated to exploring the causes and conditi…
Disruptive Bricolage
For many indigenous communities in the western highlands of Guatemala, transnational migration is considered critical to community survival. This paper analyzes how extreme migration enables new strategies of social formation and community governance for those who remain. My work builds on the scholarship of “afterlives” that calls for an examination of how historical trajectories embed themselves in contemporary social, cultural, and institution…
Migration Narratives
Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian com…
Practicing Anthropologists Make Anthropology Matter
Motherhood in the Field
Black flight
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
Producing a Crisis at the Border
Shifting racial stereotypes in late adolescence
The Relater
Black flight
Nothing is easy
This paper ethnographically explores how indigenous Guatemalan youth come to desire non-migration despite local social-geographical contexts of extensive mobility. The 2014 the emergence of a ‘crisis’ of youth migration at the U.S. Southern border drew attention to the deep and longer-term reality of untenable conditions in the countries young people are fleeing. While significant scholarship has been dedicated to exploring the causes and conditi…
Shifting racial stereotypes in late adolescence
Being free’
Taking migration discourse (Dick 2010, 2013; Dick and Arnold 2017) as a starting point, this paper examines how Indigenous youth in Guatemala navigate and understand complex migratory contexts at home before they decide, or are compelled, to migrate. Using methods of discourse analysis, I illuminate how talk about migration becomes a key site for young people to challenge transnational migration as an opportunity and thereby create alternate spat…
Contesting educational imaginaries at the intersection of migration and transnational development in Guatemala
Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic engagement in Guatemala with Indigenous youth, local community organizations, and transnational nongovernmental organizations, this article examines how young people imagine and work toward alternative futures at the intersection of extensive migration and a developmentalist push for educational attainment. I show how, within the development infrastructures generated by migration, contrasting futures are rende…
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
The Relater
Shifting racial stereotypes in late adolescence
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
Producing a Crisis at the Border
Practicing Anthropologists Make Anthropology Matter
Motherhood in the Field
Black flight
Migration Narratives
Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian com…
Disruptive Bricolage
For many indigenous communities in the western highlands of Guatemala, transnational migration is considered critical to community survival. This paper analyzes how extreme migration enables new strategies of social formation and community governance for those who remain. My work builds on the scholarship of “afterlives” that calls for an examination of how historical trajectories embed themselves in contemporary social, cultural, and institution…
Nothing is easy
This paper ethnographically explores how indigenous Guatemalan youth come to desire non-migration despite local social-geographical contexts of extensive mobility. The 2014 the emergence of a ‘crisis’ of youth migration at the U.S. Southern border drew attention to the deep and longer-term reality of untenable conditions in the countries young people are fleeing. While significant scholarship has been dedicated to exploring the causes and conditi…
Being free’
Taking migration discourse (Dick 2010, 2013; Dick and Arnold 2017) as a starting point, this paper examines how Indigenous youth in Guatemala navigate and understand complex migratory contexts at home before they decide, or are compelled, to migrate. Using methods of discourse analysis, I illuminate how talk about migration becomes a key site for young people to challenge transnational migration as an opportunity and thereby create alternate spat…
On Our Own Terms
This extensively researched and thoughtful volume examines the connections between development, Indigeneity, and Cold War geopolitics in Guatemala. Sarah Foss explores how development policy is implemented by everyday actors and is navigated by the populations targeted by state development programs. In so doing, Foss demonstrates how the concepts of development and modernity “are historically contingent, highly contextualized, and constantly nego…
Contesting educational imaginaries at the intersection of migration and transnational development in Guatemala
Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic engagement in Guatemala with Indigenous youth, local community organizations, and transnational nongovernmental organizations, this article examines how young people imagine and work toward alternative futures at the intersection of extensive migration and a developmentalist push for educational attainment. I show how, within the development infrastructures generated by migration, contrasting futures are rende…
It’s a Life Lesson
This study investigates how unconditional cash supports financial learning and well-being among young people, particularly those from low-income and racially minoritized communities. The research draws on the qualitative sub-strand of the larger, mixed-methods Youth Cash Transfer (YCT) study, which provided high school students ages 14 to 20 with $50 weekly in unconditional cash for 10 months. Interview findings show that the cash transfers promp…
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