L R Chavez
Biographic Data
| ID | 11374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L R Chavez |
| GIVEN NAMES | L R |
| FAMILY NAME | Chavez |
| SIGNATURE | CHAVEZ L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4629-840X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 664 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
First Time Home Co‐Directed by Esmirna Librado, Noemi Librado Sanchez, Esmeralda Ventura, and Heriberto Ventura
First Time Home is one of those rare documentaries where intention, genuineness, and honesty exceed any technical limitations in its production.The story is told and produced by children of indigenous Triqui-speaking farmworkers living in the state of Washington.Having lived their lives separated geographically, but not emotionally, from their parents' families in San Martin, a small village in Oaxaca, Mexico, cousins Esmirna
“Awakening to a Nightmare”
Advancing the concept abjectivity, the authors interrogate how the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality—surveillance, immigration documents, employment forms, birth certificates, tax forms, drivers’ licenses, credit card applications, bank accounts, medical insurance, car insurance, random detentions, and deportations—enclose, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants (those who m…
Youth gun carrying and household firearm ownership in 22 US states
Youth gun carrying is associated with a range of adverse outcomes, including increased risks for homicide, suicide, school disciplinary problems, and criminal legal involvement. In this study we examined the association between state‐level household firearm ownership rates and the odds of past‐year gun carrying among high‐school‐aged youth. Using survey‐weighted multivariable logistic regression models, results showed that each 1% point increase …
Latino Resentimiento
Resentment in anti-immigrant and anti-Latino political rhetoric often focuses on perceived demographic changes, white population decline, and economic decline. Resentimiento, by contrast, connotes disgust and anger at mistreatment through hostile words or acts such as those conveyed in negative political rhetoric. To explore the nature of resentimiento, Mexican-origin students at a California university were shown samples of negative (N = 95) or …
Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship
Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants." Even as the question of citizenship for children of immigrants was seemingly settled by the Fourteenth Amendment, vitriolic debate has continued for well over a century, especially in relation to U.S. race relations. Most recently, a provocative and decidedly more offensive ter…
Words hurt
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
The Latino Threat
Directly opposing ideas constructed and perpetuated by pundits and the media at large, The Latino Threat challenges the suggestion that Latino immigrants are unwilling to integrate and reveals that citizenship is not just about legal definitions, but about participation in society
Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California
Awakening to a Nightmare
Does the undocumented status of 1.5-generation Latinos (those who migrated at a young age) in the United States affect their political, civic, and public selves? Our approach to this question begins with a theoretical framework based on the concept of abjectivity, which draws together abject status and subjectivity. We argue that the practices of the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality-surveillance, immigration documents, employment fo…
Latino Spin
Book Review| July 01 2010 Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race. By Arlene Dávila. New York: New York University Press, 2008. viii + 209 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $65 (cloth); $19 (paper). Leo R. Chavez Leo R. Chavez University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2010) 29 (4): 1…
Becoming a Citizen
The Condition of Illegality
Anti-Nation
Journal Article Anti-Nation Get access Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Princeton University Press, 2004; 377 pp. $49.95 hbk, $19.95 pbk; ISBN 0-691-07471-2. Leo R. Chavez Leo R. Chavez Leo R. Chavez is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His research examines various issues related to transnational migration, including immigrant families and hous…
Influence of beliefs about cervical cancer etiology on pap smear use among Latina immigrants
The results suggest that culturally related beliefs about the etiology of cervical cancer play a role in the decision to obtain Pap smears for Latina immigrants. The findings may help to explain why researchers have found Latino ethnicity to be an independent predictor of Pap smear use. They also suggest that programs designed to improve cervical cancer screening, particularly among Latina immigrants, should stress the nature of HPV transmission,…
A Glass Half Empty
Latina reproduction and fertility have become ground zero in a political war-not just of words, but of public policies and laws. This article builds on a theoretical framework that includes issues of stratified reproduction, which characterize some women as reproductive threats to society. From an examination of the discourse found in 10 national magazines over a 35-year period, beginning in 1965, emerge three interrelated themes concerning Latin…
Immigration Reform and Nativism
Public Discourse, Immigration, and Control of The US–Mexico Border
Medicalizing Ethnicity
Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in. Psychiatric Setting. Vilma Santiago-Irizarry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.178 pp
Covering Immigration
On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a growling guard dog lunging at a man carrying a pack. The magazine's coverage of emerging anti-immigrant sentiment shows how highly charged the images and …
In the Land of Plenty
Beliefs Matter
In this article we examine the influence of cultural beliefs on behavior or, more specifically, beliefs about cervical cancer risk factors and the use of Pap exams. Individual Latinas' (Hispanic women) holding of beliefs similar to Latinas' generally (cultural consonance) did not significantly influence their use of Pap exams. Rather, structural factors such as medical insurance, age, marital status, education, and language acculturation explaine…
Health Care Use Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants
Using data from a 1996/1997 survey of undocumented Latino immigrants in four sites, we examine reasons for coming to the United States, use of health care services, and participation in government programs. We find that undocumented Latinos come to this country primarily for jobs. Their ambulatory health care use is low compared with that of all Latinos and all persons nationally, and their rates of hospitalization are comparable except for hospi…
Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California
This article examines a unique data set randomly collected from Latinas (including 160 undocumented immigrants) and non-Hispanic white women in Orange County, California, including undocumented and documented Latina immigrants, Latina citizens, and non-Hispanic white women. Our survey suggests that undocumented Latinas are younger than documented Latinas, and immigrant Latinas are generally younger than U.S.-citizen Latinas and Anglo women. Undoc…
Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California
Leo R. Chavez, F. Allan Hubbell, Shiraz I. Mishra, R. Burciaga Valdez, Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California: A Comparative Analysis, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 88-107
Awakening to a Nightmare
Does the undocumented status of 1.5-generation Latinos (those who migrated at a young age) in the United States affect their political, civic, and public selves? Our approach to this question begins with a theoretical framework based on the concept of abjectivity, which draws together abject status and subjectivity. We argue that the practices of the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality-surveillance, immigration documents, employment fo…
Outside the imagined community
This article argues that, because they accumulate economic and social linkages to U.S. society, many undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants intend to stay in the United States and imagine themselves to be part of the community. However, because the larger society views them as outsiders, undocumented settlers cannot be fully incorporated into the larger society. They remain marginal members of the community, continually seeking an e…
Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors
This article reports on a study of perceptions of breast and cervical cancer risk factors among 27 U.S.-born Chicanas, 39 Mexican and 28 Sal-vadoran immigrants, 27 Anglo women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California. In open-ended responses explaining why women might be at risk for both cancers, Latinas expressed two general themes: physical stress and trauma to the body, and behavior and lifestyle choices. Interviewees ranked th…
The Power of the Imagined Community
Using logistic regression, this article tests the relative importance of the "imagined community" on the intentions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States. The argument is that, everything else being equal, imagining oneself as part of a local community is a powerful influence on settlement. If for whatever reason, an undocumented immigrant comes to this self-perception, then he or she is likely to desire to stay in the community…
Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California
Settlers and Sojourners
This work attempts to contribute to our understanding of the process of settlement by undocumented Mexican immigrants.The behavior of single migrants (including individuals who migrated without spouse or children) is compared to that of migrants accompanied by spouse and/or children in relation to a number of factors, including the outcome of migration experiences, variation in household composition over time, attitudes concerning residence prefe…
Beliefs Matter
In this article we examine the influence of cultural beliefs on behavior or, more specifically, beliefs about cervical cancer risk factors and the use of Pap exams. Individual Latinas' (Hispanic women) holding of beliefs similar to Latinas' generally (cultural consonance) did not significantly influence their use of Pap exams. Rather, structural factors such as medical insurance, age, marital status, education, and language acculturation explaine…
The Condition of Illegality
Mexican immigrants and the utilization of U.S. health services
Words hurt
Undocumented Latin American Immigrants and U.S. Health Services
This article contributes to an understanding of the use of health services by undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans who work as manual laborers in the United States. Data collected in San Diego, California, and Dallas, Texas, are analyzed from a political economy perspective. The people in the study had lived in the United States for at least one and a half years and were interviewed in 1986, when laws affecting their future legal status (I…
Doctors, Curanderos, and Brujas
To what extent does the complex set of beliefs and practices relating to diseases, cures, health maintenance, and health care practitioners found in traditional Mexican culture influence the behavior of Mexicans seeking health care in the United States?In this paper I examine data gathered on Mexican immigrants in San Diego County, California, that support the growing consensus that socioeconomic factors affect this population's behavioral patter…
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Undocumented Settlers and Immigration Reform
This paper explores interview data collected on undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America during the summer of 1986 in San Diego, California and Dallas, Texas. Its purpose is to examine a principal underlying assumption of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, that undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for the legalization program will return to their country of origin; and to indicate problems created by the legisl…
Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California
Leo R. Chavez, F. Allan Hubbell, Shiraz I. Mishra, R. Burciaga Valdez, Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California: A Comparative Analysis, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 88-107
Purity and passion
This paper examines how physicians' beliefs about risk factors for cervical cancer compare with Mexican and Salvadoran immigrant women's views (hereafter Latina immigrants). Between August 15, 1991 and August 15, 1992, we conducted ethnographic interviews with 39 Mexican immigrant women, 28 Salvadoran immigrant women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California. Physicians and Latina immigrants converge on their beliefs that sexual be…
Influence of beliefs about cervical cancer etiology on pap smear use among Latina immigrants
The results suggest that culturally related beliefs about the etiology of cervical cancer play a role in the decision to obtain Pap smears for Latina immigrants. The findings may help to explain why researchers have found Latino ethnicity to be an independent predictor of Pap smear use. They also suggest that programs designed to improve cervical cancer screening, particularly among Latina immigrants, should stress the nature of HPV transmission,…
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
Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California
This article examines a unique data set randomly collected from Latinas (including 160 undocumented immigrants) and non-Hispanic white women in Orange County, California, including undocumented and documented Latina immigrants, Latina citizens, and non-Hispanic white women. Our survey suggests that undocumented Latinas are younger than documented Latinas, and immigrant Latinas are generally younger than U.S.-citizen Latinas and Anglo women. Undoc…
Knowledge, power and experience
Recent theory in anthropology has increasingly been concerned with issues of power. Anthropology also has a long history of interest in variation in cultural knowledge, which, we argue, benefits from attention to power relations. To show this, we examine perceptions of breast cancer risk factors among physicians. Although physicians share a general cultural model of breast cancer risk factors, variation exists, especially between university-based…
Youth gun carrying and household firearm ownership in 22 US states
Youth gun carrying is associated with a range of adverse outcomes, including increased risks for homicide, suicide, school disciplinary problems, and criminal legal involvement. In this study we examined the association between state‐level household firearm ownership rates and the odds of past‐year gun carrying among high‐school‐aged youth. Using survey‐weighted multivariable logistic regression models, results showed that each 1% point increase …
From Labor Camps to Chicana Feminism
Doctors, Curanderos, and Brujas
To what extent does the complex set of beliefs and practices relating to diseases, cures, health maintenance, and health care practitioners found in traditional Mexican culture influence the behavior of Mexicans seeking health care in the United States?In this paper I examine data gathered on Mexican immigrants in San Diego County, California, that support the growing consensus that socioeconomic factors affect this population's behavioral patter…
Mexican immigrants and the utilization of U.S. health services
Mexican Immigration and Health Care
This paper examines the case of Mexican immigrants in the United States and their access to medical services within a political economy of health framework. Such an approach stresses that the provision of health care is independent of health factors per se and that access to health care is not equally distributed throughout a population. The first section reviews the three major concepts influencing medical anthropologists working within a politi…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Settlers and Sojourners
This work attempts to contribute to our understanding of the process of settlement by undocumented Mexican immigrants.The behavior of single migrants (including individuals who migrated without spouse or children) is compared to that of migrants accompanied by spouse and/or children in relation to a number of factors, including the outcome of migration experiences, variation in household composition over time, attitudes concerning residence prefe…
Recent Research on Mexican Immigration
Book Review| January 01 1989 Recent Research on Mexican Immigration Mexican Immigration to the United States 1897-1931Lawrence A. CardosoLatin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United StatesAlejandro PortesRobert L. BachPolitical and Economic Migrants in AmericaSilvia Pedraza-BaileyThe Fourth Wave: California's Newest ImmigrantsThomas MullerThomas J. Espenshade Leo R. Chavez Leo R. Chavez Search for other works by this author on: This …
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Undocumented Settlers and Immigration Reform
This paper explores interview data collected on undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America during the summer of 1986 in San Diego, California and Dallas, Texas. Its purpose is to examine a principal underlying assumption of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, that undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for the legalization program will return to their country of origin; and to indicate problems created by the legisl…
Outside the imagined community
This article argues that, because they accumulate economic and social linkages to U.S. society, many undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants intend to stay in the United States and imagine themselves to be part of the community. However, because the larger society views them as outsiders, undocumented settlers cannot be fully incorporated into the larger society. They remain marginal members of the community, continually seeking an e…
Undocumented Latin American Immigrants and U.S. Health Services
This article contributes to an understanding of the use of health services by undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans who work as manual laborers in the United States. Data collected in San Diego, California, and Dallas, Texas, are analyzed from a political economy perspective. The people in the study had lived in the United States for at least one and a half years and were interviewed in 1986, when laws affecting their future legal status (I…
Knowledge, power and experience
Recent theory in anthropology has increasingly been concerned with issues of power. Anthropology also has a long history of interest in variation in cultural knowledge, which, we argue, benefits from attention to power relations. To show this, we examine perceptions of breast cancer risk factors among physicians. Although physicians share a general cultural model of breast cancer risk factors, variation exists, especially between university-based…
The Power of the Imagined Community
Using logistic regression, this article tests the relative importance of the "imagined community" on the intentions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States. The argument is that, everything else being equal, imagining oneself as part of a local community is a powerful influence on settlement. If for whatever reason, an undocumented immigrant comes to this self-perception, then he or she is likely to desire to stay in the community…
Cancellation of the Anthropological Promise
Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors
This article reports on a study of perceptions of breast and cervical cancer risk factors among 27 U.S.-born Chicanas, 39 Mexican and 28 Sal-vadoran immigrants, 27 Anglo women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California. In open-ended responses explaining why women might be at risk for both cancers, Latinas expressed two general themes: physical stress and trauma to the body, and behavior and lifestyle choices. Interviewees ranked th…
Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California
This article examines a unique data set randomly collected from Latinas (including 160 undocumented immigrants) and non-Hispanic white women in Orange County, California, including undocumented and documented Latina immigrants, Latina citizens, and non-Hispanic white women. Our survey suggests that undocumented Latinas are younger than documented Latinas, and immigrant Latinas are generally younger than U.S.-citizen Latinas and Anglo women. Undoc…
Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California
Leo R. Chavez, F. Allan Hubbell, Shiraz I. Mishra, R. Burciaga Valdez, Undocumented Latina Immigrants in Orange County, California: A Comparative Analysis, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 88-107
Purity and passion
This paper examines how physicians' beliefs about risk factors for cervical cancer compare with Mexican and Salvadoran immigrant women's views (hereafter Latina immigrants). Between August 15, 1991 and August 15, 1992, we conducted ethnographic interviews with 39 Mexican immigrant women, 28 Salvadoran immigrant women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California. Physicians and Latina immigrants converge on their beliefs that sexual be…
Health Care Use Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants
Using data from a 1996/1997 survey of undocumented Latino immigrants in four sites, we examine reasons for coming to the United States, use of health care services, and participation in government programs. We find that undocumented Latinos come to this country primarily for jobs. Their ambulatory health care use is low compared with that of all Latinos and all persons nationally, and their rates of hospitalization are comparable except for hospi…
Covering Immigration
On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a growling guard dog lunging at a man carrying a pack. The magazine's coverage of emerging anti-immigrant sentiment shows how highly charged the images and …
In the Land of Plenty
Beliefs Matter
In this article we examine the influence of cultural beliefs on behavior or, more specifically, beliefs about cervical cancer risk factors and the use of Pap exams. Individual Latinas' (Hispanic women) holding of beliefs similar to Latinas' generally (cultural consonance) did not significantly influence their use of Pap exams. Rather, structural factors such as medical insurance, age, marital status, education, and language acculturation explaine…
Immigration Reform and Nativism
Public Discourse, Immigration, and Control of The US–Mexico Border
Medicalizing Ethnicity
Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in. Psychiatric Setting. Vilma Santiago-Irizarry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.178 pp
A Glass Half Empty
Latina reproduction and fertility have become ground zero in a political war-not just of words, but of public policies and laws. This article builds on a theoretical framework that includes issues of stratified reproduction, which characterize some women as reproductive threats to society. From an examination of the discourse found in 10 national magazines over a 35-year period, beginning in 1965, emerge three interrelated themes concerning Latin…
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