Alyshia Gálvez
Biographic Data
| ID | 102585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyshia Gálvez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyshia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gálvez |
| SIGNATURE | GÁLVEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8460-7595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nutrition security under constraint
Questions remain regarding how Mexican immigrants achieve nutrition security in the United States, particularly under poverty and in the wake of COVID-19. We employed creative qualitative methods (food maps, ethnographic interviews, photo and shopping receipt elicitation) during one food shopping and cooking event with 12 Spanish-dominant Mexican immigrants in the Bronx, New York. Using reflexive thematic analysis, we found that participants acce…
“Back of the House” Considerations in Decolonizing Food Systems Education
While we might think of food systems education as being mainly a part of land grant universities’ work in rural regions with an agriculture-focused economy, food systems education is just as important in the Bronx, New York. This article analyzes some of the lesser-known barriers to meaningful decolonization of food systems education. In it, I reflect on issues related to the “back of the house” in higher education. Deploying a metaphor from the …
Remedios Caseros
Communities with already high rates of non-communicable diseases, including Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx, were burdened further by the novel coronavirus. In this context, many individuals sought ways to prevent and mitigate symptoms of COVID-19, including homemade remedies. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx reveal how they devised and deployed remedios caseros (home remedies) during the C…
Anti-Nafta
A Gastronomica Roundtable
This roundtable with members of the Gastronomica Editorial Collective was edited and adapted from an episode that first aired on the Gastronomica podcast on HRN (Episode 43, March 24, 2024). To listen to the episode or find other episodes from the series, look for Gastronomica on your favorite podcast app or visit this site: https://heritageradionetwork.org/series/gastronomicaAs members of the editorial collective, we feel well positioned to have…
There is No Time” to be a Good Biocitizen
This paper explores the ways in which Mexican immigrants experience, narrate, and describe stress and the extent to which it impacts their efforts at engaging in physical activity using a biocitizenship framework. Data were derived from a mixed-method study among Mexicans living in New York City recruited from a large Catholic church. The qualitative sample of 25 participated in quantitative and qualitative components of the study and as such we …
Exploring Physical Activity Among Mexican American Immigrants in New York City Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with decreases in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and increases in sedentary time for children and adults, and there is some evidence that Latino populations were particularly affected. This article leverages a two-wave panel, mixed-method social network dataset collected before and during the pandemic with Mexican American immigrants living in New York City to examine social networks and other factors …
Nosotros mismos nos estamos matando/We are the ones killing ourselves
Duo-ethnographic Methods
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used to explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender in academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution to be articulating duo-ethnography as …
Paqueteros and Paqueteras
In this article, I argue that paqueteros and paqueteras humanize an increasingly dehumanized food system, connecting people and places culturally who are divided by borders and food policy. Their activities constitute an important, while underacknowledged link between migrant communities and the places they came from, largely operating informally and without governmental support, although not without official scrutiny. Building on two decades of …
Amy Moran-Thomas, Traveling with Sugar
“Welcome to the strange world of diabetes It is very different from what you have been taught Come take a look from the inside It’s not what you think from out there” – Dr. W. (p.85) Amy Moran-Thomas opens this volume with a definition from the Belize Kriol dictionary: Travel with: to be troubled with, suffer from; have a recurring medical problem. In this ethnography, she travels with people who suffer from diabetes in Belize, a master class in …
Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers
According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathw…
Taking Susto Seriously
Chronic Disaster
Efficiency
The concept of efficiency, perhaps more than any other, provides an underlying logic to social, political, and economic formations in North America. But it is arguably the term's misuse, rather than its true definition as a ratio of effort and investment to yield, that drives the current neoliberal policy landscape under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (formerly the North American Free Trade Agreement). This essay draws on the example of corn to s…
Transnational Mother Blame
Mexican women in both the United States and Mexico face uneven landscapes of benefits and discourses as they negotiate family members' health. Building on two decades of ethnographic research, I explore how Mexican mothers navigate social and medical services, food provision, food preparation and health, and describe some of the ways that governments in each country abdicate responsibility for shaping structural constraints on citizens' health. T…
Eating Nafta
In the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, Mexico has seen an epidemic of diet-related illness. While globalization has been associated with an increase in chronic disease around the world, in Mexico, the speed and scope of the rise has been called a public health emergency. The shift in Mexican foodways is happening at a moment when the country’s ancestral cuisine is now more popular and appreciate…
Unafraid and Unapologetic, Still
Luis Saavedra, Melissa García Vélez, and Marlen Fernández were among the cofounders of the Lehman College DREAM Team, the first official group organized by and specifically for undocumented students at the City University of New York (CUNY). From their first semester on campus, until they graduated in 2014, Luis, Melissa, and Marlen worked tirelessly on campus, around the city, regionally, and at the federal level, demanding better services for u…
Guadalupe in New York
Every December 12, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing—and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform, much like political protestors. It is this juxtaposition of religion and politics that this book investigates in Guadalupe in New York. The Virgin of Guadalupe is a profou…
Adelante
One Out of Three
Book Review| July 01 2014 One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 312 pp. Figures. $105 (cloth). Alyshia Gálvez Alyshia Gálvez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (4): 112–113. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.4.0112 …
On Latin@s and the Immigration Debate
Author(s): Dávila, Arlene; Mullings, Leith; Rosaldo, Renato; Plascencia, Luis FB; Chavez, Leo R; Magaña, Rocío; Rosas, Gilberto; Aparicio, Ana; Nájera, Lourdes Gutiérrez; Zavella, Patricia; Gálvez, Alyshia; Rosa, Jonathan D
Strivers into Patients
Precious Knowledge , 2011
Precious Knowledge is an important film chronicling the ongoing struggle for the inclusion of ethnic studies in the educational curriculum in the state of Arizona, amidst efforts by a small group of education department officials and legislators to eliminate them. While the ax did not finally fall on ethnic studies with Arizona State Legislature's House Bill 2281 until January 2012, the film chronicles the long struggle by teachers and students t…
El Cinco de Mayo
Chronic Disaster
Immigrant citizenship
This article argues that all conceptualisations of citizenship are vernacular. Drawing on ethnographic data from two related studies among Mexican immigrants in New York City, the author examines the lived meanings of citizenship and the centrality of (im)mobility in immigrant claims for the rights of citizenship. Citizenship is a contested notion in contemporary immigrant-receiving states. As the United States again debates immigration reform pr…
One Out of Three
Book Review| July 01 2014 One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 312 pp. Figures. $105 (cloth). Alyshia Gálvez Alyshia Gálvez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (4): 112–113. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.4.0112 …
Taking Susto Seriously
Transnational Mother Blame
Mexican women in both the United States and Mexico face uneven landscapes of benefits and discourses as they negotiate family members' health. Building on two decades of ethnographic research, I explore how Mexican mothers navigate social and medical services, food provision, food preparation and health, and describe some of the ways that governments in each country abdicate responsibility for shaping structural constraints on citizens' health. T…
On Latin@s and the Immigration Debate
Author(s): Dávila, Arlene; Mullings, Leith; Rosaldo, Renato; Plascencia, Luis FB; Chavez, Leo R; Magaña, Rocío; Rosas, Gilberto; Aparicio, Ana; Nájera, Lourdes Gutiérrez; Zavella, Patricia; Gálvez, Alyshia; Rosa, Jonathan D
Nosotros mismos nos estamos matando/We are the ones killing ourselves
I too was an Immigrant”
This paper, based on dissertation fieldwork among Mexican migrant organizations in New York, examines differing modes of mobilization in two Bronx parish‐based voluntary associations. Even though the Mexican community in New York is consistently described as “new”, “young” and its migration as “recent”, there are some migrants who arrived decades ago, in the early 1980s, whose children and grandchildren have been born in the United States and who…
La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer
Research Article| September 01 2006 La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: ARTICULATING LABOR RIGHTS FOR MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS Alyshia Gálvez Alyshia Gálvez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 99–130. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alyshia Gálvez; La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: ARTICULATING LABOR RIGHTS FOR MEXICAN IMMIG…
Anti-Nafta
La política exterior de una revolución
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine the COVID era. As a group of diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior feminist scholars, we developed a methodology to critically reflect on our positions in our institutions and social worlds. As a method, duoethnography emphasizes the dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws on individual daily lives to make sense o…
La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer
Research Article| September 01 2006 La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: ARTICULATING LABOR RIGHTS FOR MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS Alyshia Gálvez Alyshia Gálvez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 99–130. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alyshia Gálvez; La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: ARTICULATING LABOR RIGHTS FOR MEXICAN IMMIG…
I too was an Immigrant”
This paper, based on dissertation fieldwork among Mexican migrant organizations in New York, examines differing modes of mobilization in two Bronx parish‐based voluntary associations. Even though the Mexican community in New York is consistently described as “new”, “young” and its migration as “recent”, there are some migrants who arrived decades ago, in the early 1980s, whose children and grandchildren have been born in the United States and who…
The Latino Threat
Strivers into Patients
Precious Knowledge , 2011
Precious Knowledge is an important film chronicling the ongoing struggle for the inclusion of ethnic studies in the educational curriculum in the state of Arizona, amidst efforts by a small group of education department officials and legislators to eliminate them. While the ax did not finally fall on ethnic studies with Arizona State Legislature's House Bill 2281 until January 2012, the film chronicles the long struggle by teachers and students t…
El Cinco de Mayo
Immigrant citizenship
This article argues that all conceptualisations of citizenship are vernacular. Drawing on ethnographic data from two related studies among Mexican immigrants in New York City, the author examines the lived meanings of citizenship and the centrality of (im)mobility in immigrant claims for the rights of citizenship. Citizenship is a contested notion in contemporary immigrant-receiving states. As the United States again debates immigration reform pr…
One Out of Three
Book Review| July 01 2014 One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 312 pp. Figures. $105 (cloth). Alyshia Gálvez Alyshia Gálvez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (4): 112–113. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.4.0112 …
On Latin@s and the Immigration Debate
Author(s): Dávila, Arlene; Mullings, Leith; Rosaldo, Renato; Plascencia, Luis FB; Chavez, Leo R; Magaña, Rocío; Rosas, Gilberto; Aparicio, Ana; Nájera, Lourdes Gutiérrez; Zavella, Patricia; Gálvez, Alyshia; Rosa, Jonathan D
Adelante
Guadalupe in New York
Every December 12, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing—and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform, much like political protestors. It is this juxtaposition of religion and politics that this book investigates in Guadalupe in New York. The Virgin of Guadalupe is a profou…
Unafraid and Unapologetic, Still
Luis Saavedra, Melissa García Vélez, and Marlen Fernández were among the cofounders of the Lehman College DREAM Team, the first official group organized by and specifically for undocumented students at the City University of New York (CUNY). From their first semester on campus, until they graduated in 2014, Luis, Melissa, and Marlen worked tirelessly on campus, around the city, regionally, and at the federal level, demanding better services for u…
Eating Nafta
In the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, Mexico has seen an epidemic of diet-related illness. While globalization has been associated with an increase in chronic disease around the world, in Mexico, the speed and scope of the rise has been called a public health emergency. The shift in Mexican foodways is happening at a moment when the country’s ancestral cuisine is now more popular and appreciate…
Efficiency
The concept of efficiency, perhaps more than any other, provides an underlying logic to social, political, and economic formations in North America. But it is arguably the term's misuse, rather than its true definition as a ratio of effort and investment to yield, that drives the current neoliberal policy landscape under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (formerly the North American Free Trade Agreement). This essay draws on the example of corn to s…
Transnational Mother Blame
Mexican women in both the United States and Mexico face uneven landscapes of benefits and discourses as they negotiate family members' health. Building on two decades of ethnographic research, I explore how Mexican mothers navigate social and medical services, food provision, food preparation and health, and describe some of the ways that governments in each country abdicate responsibility for shaping structural constraints on citizens' health. T…
Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers
According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathw…
Taking Susto Seriously
Chronic Disaster
Paqueteros and Paqueteras
In this article, I argue that paqueteros and paqueteras humanize an increasingly dehumanized food system, connecting people and places culturally who are divided by borders and food policy. Their activities constitute an important, while underacknowledged link between migrant communities and the places they came from, largely operating informally and without governmental support, although not without official scrutiny. Building on two decades of …
Amy Moran-Thomas, Traveling with Sugar
“Welcome to the strange world of diabetes It is very different from what you have been taught Come take a look from the inside It’s not what you think from out there” – Dr. W. (p.85) Amy Moran-Thomas opens this volume with a definition from the Belize Kriol dictionary: Travel with: to be troubled with, suffer from; have a recurring medical problem. In this ethnography, she travels with people who suffer from diabetes in Belize, a master class in …
Nosotros mismos nos estamos matando/We are the ones killing ourselves
Duo-ethnographic Methods
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used to explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender in academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution to be articulating duo-ethnography as …
A Gastronomica Roundtable
This roundtable with members of the Gastronomica Editorial Collective was edited and adapted from an episode that first aired on the Gastronomica podcast on HRN (Episode 43, March 24, 2024). To listen to the episode or find other episodes from the series, look for Gastronomica on your favorite podcast app or visit this site: https://heritageradionetwork.org/series/gastronomicaAs members of the editorial collective, we feel well positioned to have…
There is No Time” to be a Good Biocitizen
This paper explores the ways in which Mexican immigrants experience, narrate, and describe stress and the extent to which it impacts their efforts at engaging in physical activity using a biocitizenship framework. Data were derived from a mixed-method study among Mexicans living in New York City recruited from a large Catholic church. The qualitative sample of 25 participated in quantitative and qualitative components of the study and as such we …
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