Emily R Cabani
Biographic Data
| ID | 120402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily R Cabani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cabani |
| SIGNATURE | CABANI E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5634-2670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor
Self‐care, a ubiquitous concept commonly touted as the solution to an array of modern‐day problems, implies unapologetic selfishness aimed at preserving mental, emotional, and physical health. The overtly individualistic framing in its most common usage—the centering of oneself for the sake of oneself—obscures power relations and structural/institutional inequalities that create the need for self‐care. To deal with difficult work or family lives,…
Signifying “Americanness”: Narrative Collective Identification Work in the Undocumented Youth Movement
This article examines the narrative identity work that undocumented youth activists used to shift the boundary of and claim membership in the social category “American.” Despite the seemingly inflexible, legalistic way American is conventionally defined in the United States (as a native-born or naturalized citizen), activists adopted a fluid interpretation that made room for them. Our theoretical contribution centers on articulating how the const…
We Share Our Stories and Risk Losing It All: Activist-Storytelling as Edgework in the Undocumented Youth Movement
Most research on edgework has focused on how individuals manage voluntary risk-taking. Few scholars have examined the process by which groups work together to construct and mitigate these activities. Our research, however, shows how undocumented youth activists collectively leveraged cultural capital to encourage risky forms of public storytelling by positioning those who participated in this strategy as especially courageous and entitled to the …
Racialization of Latinx Immigrants: The Role of (Seemingly) Positive Newspaper Discourse
Xenophobic narratives that describe Latinx immigrants as culturally deficient, threatening, and undeserving lawbreakers have received extensive scrutiny from the public and academics alike. However, few scholars have examined the positive narratives that surround this group, an especially important line of inquiry given the nature and prevalence of colorblind racial ideology today. In this paper, we consider how (seemingly) positive elite news me…
Towards a feminist symbolic interactionism
In this chapter, we will discuss trends in feminist symbolic interactionism and offer a critique of some of the recent work. Specifically, we will address scholarship that highlights expressions of ‘individual agency’ and ‘personal choice’ while ignoring how those choices are shaped and constrained by women’s subordination in the gender order as well as in racial and class hierarchies. What are the negative consequences of some of those ‘choices’…
Shifting the Power: Youth Activists' Narrative Reframing of the Immigrant Rights Movement
This article explores collective efforts by undocumented youth activists to use storytelling to reframe the debates around immigration reform and discursively position themselves as the rightful leaders of a movement that had been dominated by adult citizen-advocates. Drawing on 19 months of fieldwork, 37 in-depth interviews, and hundreds of pages of movement documents, I show how youth activists in the United States worked together to develop st…
One-Shot (Public) Sociology: A Teaching Note on Developing Sociologically-Informed Student Workshops on College Campuses
In this teaching note, we outline ways in which sociologists can expand their reach beyond the classroom by accepting students’ invitations to develop short, sociologically informed curricula for campus groups. We argue that sociologists are especially well-equipped to moderate and deliver this kind of programming on college campuses because many of the issues that students are dealing with are directly connected to our course content. In additio…
Toward a Social Psychological Understanding of Migration and Assimilation
The experience of migrating and attempting to integrate into a host society is personally and interactionally daunting. This article suggests ways social psychological perspectives may deepen our understanding of the interactional processes that shape experiences of migration and assimilation. We argue that existing migration literature highlights assimilation outcomes while undertheorizing the social psychological processes that constitute assim…
Pulling Back the Curtain: Examining the Backstage Gendered Dynamics of Storytelling in the Undocumented Youth Movement
This article examines the backstage process by which undocumented youth activists developed and implemented an emotionally evocative storytelling strategy in their efforts to bring about social change. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews with members of the DREAM Act Movement, I show how they carefully cultivated and refined their storytelling performances through interaction. I also show how hegemonic gender expectations-and th…
Forging Their Own Path to the Labor Market: Hispanic Women Business Owners in North Carolina
Hispanic women are an understudied entrepreneurial population with considerable potential for economic impact. Our study uses fieldwork and semistructured interviews with entrepreneurs and community informants to understand the experiences of Latina business owners in North Carolina. We focus specifically on their entry into the formal economy as majority owners of for-profit ventures. Social location of owners is discussed to appreciate how the …
Unassimilable and undesirable’: News elites’ discursive construction of the American immigrant during the Ellis Island years
This research examines the historical role news elites have played in shaping public perceptions of immigrants as a distinct social group. To that end, we identify the discursive strategies used by The New York Times to construct the ‘American immigrant’ during the Ellis Island years (1892–1924), a pivotal period when some of the nation’s earliest immigration restriction laws were established. Data were collected from front page newspaper article…
We're Like Visitors: Moral Identity Work by Citizen and Noncitizen Teachers at an Alternative School
This article examines the rise and fall of collective moral identity by two groups of unequally positioned teachers in a new school for immigrant and refugee students who were learning English. One group was composed of predominately white, US-born tenured teaching professionals. The other consisted of racially and ethnically diverse, foreign-born teachers who were participating in a cultural exchange program and had temporary visas to work in th…
Revisiting the Underclass Debate: Contemporary Applications to Immigrants and Policy Implications
The “underclass” concept pervades social science research on poverty, racial relations, and more recently, immigration. In this article, we elaborate and extend Massey’s critique of the underclass concept by briefly reviewing the history of this concept and emphasizing its contemporary application to immigrants and undocumented workers. We also explore how the term as well as popular variants, including the “rainbow underclass,” are ambiguously d…
Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform - by Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis
Racialization of Latinx Immigrants: The Role of (Seemingly) Positive Newspaper Discourse
Xenophobic narratives that describe Latinx immigrants as culturally deficient, threatening, and undeserving lawbreakers have received extensive scrutiny from the public and academics alike. However, few scholars have examined the positive narratives that surround this group, an especially important line of inquiry given the nature and prevalence of colorblind racial ideology today. In this paper, we consider how (seemingly) positive elite news me…
Pulling Back the Curtain: Examining the Backstage Gendered Dynamics of Storytelling in the Undocumented Youth Movement
This article examines the backstage process by which undocumented youth activists developed and implemented an emotionally evocative storytelling strategy in their efforts to bring about social change. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews with members of the DREAM Act Movement, I show how they carefully cultivated and refined their storytelling performances through interaction. I also show how hegemonic gender expectations-and th…
We Share Our Stories and Risk Losing It All: Activist-Storytelling as Edgework in the Undocumented Youth Movement
Most research on edgework has focused on how individuals manage voluntary risk-taking. Few scholars have examined the process by which groups work together to construct and mitigate these activities. Our research, however, shows how undocumented youth activists collectively leveraged cultural capital to encourage risky forms of public storytelling by positioning those who participated in this strategy as especially courageous and entitled to the …
Toward a Social Psychological Understanding of Migration and Assimilation
The experience of migrating and attempting to integrate into a host society is personally and interactionally daunting. This article suggests ways social psychological perspectives may deepen our understanding of the interactional processes that shape experiences of migration and assimilation. We argue that existing migration literature highlights assimilation outcomes while undertheorizing the social psychological processes that constitute assim…
Forging Their Own Path to the Labor Market: Hispanic Women Business Owners in North Carolina
Hispanic women are an understudied entrepreneurial population with considerable potential for economic impact. Our study uses fieldwork and semistructured interviews with entrepreneurs and community informants to understand the experiences of Latina business owners in North Carolina. We focus specifically on their entry into the formal economy as majority owners of for-profit ventures. Social location of owners is discussed to appreciate how the …
We're Like Visitors: Moral Identity Work by Citizen and Noncitizen Teachers at an Alternative School
This article examines the rise and fall of collective moral identity by two groups of unequally positioned teachers in a new school for immigrant and refugee students who were learning English. One group was composed of predominately white, US-born tenured teaching professionals. The other consisted of racially and ethnically diverse, foreign-born teachers who were participating in a cultural exchange program and had temporary visas to work in th…
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor
Self‐care, a ubiquitous concept commonly touted as the solution to an array of modern‐day problems, implies unapologetic selfishness aimed at preserving mental, emotional, and physical health. The overtly individualistic framing in its most common usage—the centering of oneself for the sake of oneself—obscures power relations and structural/institutional inequalities that create the need for self‐care. To deal with difficult work or family lives,…
Signifying “Americanness”: Narrative Collective Identification Work in the Undocumented Youth Movement
This article examines the narrative identity work that undocumented youth activists used to shift the boundary of and claim membership in the social category “American.” Despite the seemingly inflexible, legalistic way American is conventionally defined in the United States (as a native-born or naturalized citizen), activists adopted a fluid interpretation that made room for them. Our theoretical contribution centers on articulating how the const…
Shifting the Power: Youth Activists' Narrative Reframing of the Immigrant Rights Movement
This article explores collective efforts by undocumented youth activists to use storytelling to reframe the debates around immigration reform and discursively position themselves as the rightful leaders of a movement that had been dominated by adult citizen-advocates. Drawing on 19 months of fieldwork, 37 in-depth interviews, and hundreds of pages of movement documents, I show how youth activists in the United States worked together to develop st…
Unassimilable and undesirable’: News elites’ discursive construction of the American immigrant during the Ellis Island years
This research examines the historical role news elites have played in shaping public perceptions of immigrants as a distinct social group. To that end, we identify the discursive strategies used by The New York Times to construct the ‘American immigrant’ during the Ellis Island years (1892–1924), a pivotal period when some of the nation’s earliest immigration restriction laws were established. Data were collected from front page newspaper article…
Revisiting the Underclass Debate: Contemporary Applications to Immigrants and Policy Implications
The “underclass” concept pervades social science research on poverty, racial relations, and more recently, immigration. In this article, we elaborate and extend Massey’s critique of the underclass concept by briefly reviewing the history of this concept and emphasizing its contemporary application to immigrants and undocumented workers. We also explore how the term as well as popular variants, including the “rainbow underclass,” are ambiguously d…
Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform - by Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis
Revisiting the Underclass Debate: Contemporary Applications to Immigrants and Policy Implications
The “underclass” concept pervades social science research on poverty, racial relations, and more recently, immigration. In this article, we elaborate and extend Massey’s critique of the underclass concept by briefly reviewing the history of this concept and emphasizing its contemporary application to immigrants and undocumented workers. We also explore how the term as well as popular variants, including the “rainbow underclass,” are ambiguously d…
We're Like Visitors: Moral Identity Work by Citizen and Noncitizen Teachers at an Alternative School
This article examines the rise and fall of collective moral identity by two groups of unequally positioned teachers in a new school for immigrant and refugee students who were learning English. One group was composed of predominately white, US-born tenured teaching professionals. The other consisted of racially and ethnically diverse, foreign-born teachers who were participating in a cultural exchange program and had temporary visas to work in th…
Forging Their Own Path to the Labor Market: Hispanic Women Business Owners in North Carolina
Hispanic women are an understudied entrepreneurial population with considerable potential for economic impact. Our study uses fieldwork and semistructured interviews with entrepreneurs and community informants to understand the experiences of Latina business owners in North Carolina. We focus specifically on their entry into the formal economy as majority owners of for-profit ventures. Social location of owners is discussed to appreciate how the …
Unassimilable and undesirable’: News elites’ discursive construction of the American immigrant during the Ellis Island years
This research examines the historical role news elites have played in shaping public perceptions of immigrants as a distinct social group. To that end, we identify the discursive strategies used by The New York Times to construct the ‘American immigrant’ during the Ellis Island years (1892–1924), a pivotal period when some of the nation’s earliest immigration restriction laws were established. Data were collected from front page newspaper article…
One-Shot (Public) Sociology: A Teaching Note on Developing Sociologically-Informed Student Workshops on College Campuses
In this teaching note, we outline ways in which sociologists can expand their reach beyond the classroom by accepting students’ invitations to develop short, sociologically informed curricula for campus groups. We argue that sociologists are especially well-equipped to moderate and deliver this kind of programming on college campuses because many of the issues that students are dealing with are directly connected to our course content. In additio…
Toward a Social Psychological Understanding of Migration and Assimilation
The experience of migrating and attempting to integrate into a host society is personally and interactionally daunting. This article suggests ways social psychological perspectives may deepen our understanding of the interactional processes that shape experiences of migration and assimilation. We argue that existing migration literature highlights assimilation outcomes while undertheorizing the social psychological processes that constitute assim…
Pulling Back the Curtain: Examining the Backstage Gendered Dynamics of Storytelling in the Undocumented Youth Movement
This article examines the backstage process by which undocumented youth activists developed and implemented an emotionally evocative storytelling strategy in their efforts to bring about social change. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews with members of the DREAM Act Movement, I show how they carefully cultivated and refined their storytelling performances through interaction. I also show how hegemonic gender expectations-and th…
Towards a feminist symbolic interactionism
In this chapter, we will discuss trends in feminist symbolic interactionism and offer a critique of some of the recent work. Specifically, we will address scholarship that highlights expressions of ‘individual agency’ and ‘personal choice’ while ignoring how those choices are shaped and constrained by women’s subordination in the gender order as well as in racial and class hierarchies. What are the negative consequences of some of those ‘choices’…
Shifting the Power: Youth Activists' Narrative Reframing of the Immigrant Rights Movement
This article explores collective efforts by undocumented youth activists to use storytelling to reframe the debates around immigration reform and discursively position themselves as the rightful leaders of a movement that had been dominated by adult citizen-advocates. Drawing on 19 months of fieldwork, 37 in-depth interviews, and hundreds of pages of movement documents, I show how youth activists in the United States worked together to develop st…
Racialization of Latinx Immigrants: The Role of (Seemingly) Positive Newspaper Discourse
Xenophobic narratives that describe Latinx immigrants as culturally deficient, threatening, and undeserving lawbreakers have received extensive scrutiny from the public and academics alike. However, few scholars have examined the positive narratives that surround this group, an especially important line of inquiry given the nature and prevalence of colorblind racial ideology today. In this paper, we consider how (seemingly) positive elite news me…
Signifying “Americanness”: Narrative Collective Identification Work in the Undocumented Youth Movement
This article examines the narrative identity work that undocumented youth activists used to shift the boundary of and claim membership in the social category “American.” Despite the seemingly inflexible, legalistic way American is conventionally defined in the United States (as a native-born or naturalized citizen), activists adopted a fluid interpretation that made room for them. Our theoretical contribution centers on articulating how the const…
We Share Our Stories and Risk Losing It All: Activist-Storytelling as Edgework in the Undocumented Youth Movement
Most research on edgework has focused on how individuals manage voluntary risk-taking. Few scholars have examined the process by which groups work together to construct and mitigate these activities. Our research, however, shows how undocumented youth activists collectively leveraged cultural capital to encourage risky forms of public storytelling by positioning those who participated in this strategy as especially courageous and entitled to the …
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor
Self‐care, a ubiquitous concept commonly touted as the solution to an array of modern‐day problems, implies unapologetic selfishness aimed at preserving mental, emotional, and physical health. The overtly individualistic framing in its most common usage—the centering of oneself for the sake of oneself—obscures power relations and structural/institutional inequalities that create the need for self‐care. To deal with difficult work or family lives,…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Narrative (5 works)