Jesús Cisneros
Biographic Data
| ID | 141030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesús Cisneros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesús |
| FAMILY NAME | Cisneros |
| SIGNATURE | CISNEROS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7269-4078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Centering Student Voices
This paper contributes to the emerging scholarly conversation of context-specific servingness research that highlights the voices of students. Specifically, this paper focuses on 14 undergraduate and graduate students’ understandings and experiences concerning servingness at their local setting, a fronterizx Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). Our findings suggest that location plays a vital role in how undergraduate and graduate students underst…
Contextualizing the HSI
Despite the tendency to frame Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) as monolithic, HSIs situated at the U.S.-Mexico border (fronterizx HSI) are a critical site to understand how geography, communities, and language(s) intersect with what it means to serve. Conducting a qualitative case study, we explored student and faculty place-based perspectives and experiences of what it means to serve at a fronterizx HSI. Three themes emerged: borderland comm…
Compromiso, Pertenencia, and Empoderamiento
Semi-structured interviews with 22 faculty at a fronterizx HSI located at the U.S.-Mexico border revealed the ways faculty perceive, enact, and engage with servingness practice. Findings provide critical insights into the relationship between servingness and faculty as empowerment agents through three culturally relevant themes: compromiso, pertenencia, and empoderamiento. Specifically, participants’ conceptualizations of servingness, based on pr…
From risk factors to disease situations
The goal of this qualitative research study, part of an interdisciplinary project, was to understand the overlapping geographical distribution of COVID-19 and tuberculosis burden in Lima. Using an ethnographic approach, we applied the concept of disease situations to explore how inhabitants' social and spatial situatedness affected their capacity to respond to the pandemic. Our results show that for some populations in Lima, the risk to develop C…
The (un)embraced
Drawings as tools to (re)imagine space in interdisciplinary global health research
Understanding the role of space in infectious diseases' dynamics in urban contexts is key to developing effective mitigation strategies. Urbanism, a discipline that both studies and acts upon the city, commonly uses drawings to analyze spatial patterns and their variables. This paper revisits drawings as analytical and integrative tools for interdisciplinary research. We introduce the use of drawings in two interdisciplinary projects conducted in…
Not just statistics
Centering the narratives of seven Mexican deportees, this study explored the consequences of deportation on participants' mental health. Participants' accounts of the deportation experience highlighted the frustration, fear, and disappointment individuals often felt after being forced to abandon established lives in the United States. Their narratives captured the challenges involved in migration and deportation. This study highlights the need fo…
Detrimental Effects of Color-Blind Racial Attitudes in Preparing a Culturally Responsive Teaching Workforce for Immigrants
Demands on the teacher workforce are changing as one quarter of children in U.S. schools live in immigrant families and about half of students are racial/ethnic minorities. Simultaneously, diminishing teacher support and teacher shortages cause reliance on alternative certification programs (e.g., Teach for America). In response, we studied the links between color-blind racial attitudes and culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and outcome…
The Development and Evaluation of the Stigma of Illegality and Marginalization of Latinxs (Siml) Scale
Drawing on two online studies among predominantly U.S.-born and lawful permanent resident Latinxs, we developed a self-report scale intended to capture how discrimination related to perceived legal status, as well as perceptions of racial/ethnic marginalization of Latinxs in U.S. society, are experienced among a wide swath of the Latinx population. We also explore how these processes may be associated with psychological distress in this populatio…
I’m here to fight along with you”
Dual language programs
Public schools across the country are increasingly working with children who enter schools speaking a language other than English. Using a case study methodology, the authors examined Dual Language Program (DLP) implementation in Arizona, which by law supports English-only education. Several benefits (bilingualism, bi-literacy, biculturalism, globalization) and challenges (curriculum, teachers, state policy, funding, and lack of access to DLPs fo…
Explorando el Impacto Psicológico del Proceso de Deportación en Inmigrantes
El propósito de este estudio cualitativo es explorar el impacto psicológico del proceso de deportación en inmigrantes mexicanos. Este estudio utilizo un enfoque fenomenológico para analizar las entrevistas realizadas a 10 individuos que fueron deportados de los Estados Unidos. El análisis de datos reveló la presencia de tres categorías principales: El Trauma de la Deportación, Volver a Empezar, y Las Cicatrices Emocionales. La primera categoría p…
Undocuqueer Stress
Exploring the intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and immigration status, this study explored the concept of minority stress among 31 Latinx undocuqueer immigrants within the context of LGBTQ "safe" spaces. For participants, LGBTQ nightclubs and relationships represented important physical and symbolic spaces where they were able to understand what it meant to be undocuqueer. Participants described experiences of fear, anxiety, and…
Against Unseeing
Despite historic and ongoing critiques of objectivity as the gold standard for evaluating the value of research, many doctoral students and early career scholars encounter the pressures to situate one's work alongside such demands. However, such a demand often conflicts with those who are multiply marginalized and liminal subjects. Drawing on women of color feminist and ethnic and cultural studies scholars, in this article we argue for engaging l…
Coming Out of the Shadows and the Closet
Centering the experiences of 31 undocuqueer immigrants, this study seeks to understand the ways that undocuqueer immigrants negotiate the boundaries of social performance by revealing or concealing their gender, sexuality, and immigration status. Findings of this study reveal how, in order to avoid the constant threat of rejection (both legal and social), undocuqueer immigrants engage visibility schemas and make strategic decisions about coming o…
What Does It Mean to Be Undocuqueer?” Exploring (il)Legibility within the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Immigration Status
The experiences and needs of undocuqueer immigrants are actively negotiated and muted and have been little researched or addressed in relation to the broader immigrant and LGBT rights discourses. This study explores the ways undocuqueer immigrants from Latin America experience the intersection of their gender, sexuality, and immigration status and how these experiences shape their sociopolitical identities and status in the United States. Using i…
College as the great liberator
Working with the Complexity and Refusing to Simplify
This study brings gender, sexuality, and immigration status, and their conceptual margins, to the center of analysis via the narratives of 31 self-identified undocuqueer immigrants. Undocuqueer immigrants ascribe meaning to their experiences by producing alternate subjectivities and subject positions that resist multiple axes of oppression. These subjectivities problematize the exclusionary repercussions of single-axis identity categorization tha…
DREAMzone
This article discusses the development and implementation of DREAMzone, an educational intervention designed to provide counselors and other human service professionals with awareness, knowledge, and skills for working with undocumented students. DREAMzone is driven by four learning objectives: (a) identify and deconstruct preconceptions of undocumented immigrants; (b) increase knowledge about laws and policies affecting the experiences of undocu…
DREAMzone
Examining Arizona’s Policy Response Post Flores v. Arizona in Educating K–12 English Language Learners
This article provides an analysis of Arizona’s policy response in educating English language learners by conducting a narrative review. A critical Latina/o theory approach was used to analyze the data. This study reveals 5 salient policy responses: (a) severely limit bilingual education, (b) develop controversial funding solutions, (c) implement a segregated 4-hr English language development block, (d) mandate structured English immersion–focused…
Applying Racist Nativism Theory to K-12 Education Policy in Arizona, 2000-2010
Research Article| September 01 2013 Applying Racist Nativism Theory to K–12 Education Policy in Arizona, 2000–2010 Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos is an assistant professor of education policy and evaluation in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He has published widely in K-12 education policy and finance as it relates to low-income and ethnically and linguistically div…
Coming Out of the Shadows and the Closet
Centering the experiences of 31 undocuqueer immigrants, this study seeks to understand the ways that undocuqueer immigrants negotiate the boundaries of social performance by revealing or concealing their gender, sexuality, and immigration status. Findings of this study reveal how, in order to avoid the constant threat of rejection (both legal and social), undocuqueer immigrants engage visibility schemas and make strategic decisions about coming o…
Working with the Complexity and Refusing to Simplify
This study brings gender, sexuality, and immigration status, and their conceptual margins, to the center of analysis via the narratives of 31 self-identified undocuqueer immigrants. Undocuqueer immigrants ascribe meaning to their experiences by producing alternate subjectivities and subject positions that resist multiple axes of oppression. These subjectivities problematize the exclusionary repercussions of single-axis identity categorization tha…
Undocuqueer Stress
Exploring the intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and immigration status, this study explored the concept of minority stress among 31 Latinx undocuqueer immigrants within the context of LGBTQ "safe" spaces. For participants, LGBTQ nightclubs and relationships represented important physical and symbolic spaces where they were able to understand what it meant to be undocuqueer. Participants described experiences of fear, anxiety, and…
DREAMzone
What Does It Mean to Be Undocuqueer?” Exploring (il)Legibility within the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Immigration Status
The experiences and needs of undocuqueer immigrants are actively negotiated and muted and have been little researched or addressed in relation to the broader immigrant and LGBT rights discourses. This study explores the ways undocuqueer immigrants from Latin America experience the intersection of their gender, sexuality, and immigration status and how these experiences shape their sociopolitical identities and status in the United States. Using i…
Compromiso, Pertenencia, and Empoderamiento
Semi-structured interviews with 22 faculty at a fronterizx HSI located at the U.S.-Mexico border revealed the ways faculty perceive, enact, and engage with servingness practice. Findings provide critical insights into the relationship between servingness and faculty as empowerment agents through three culturally relevant themes: compromiso, pertenencia, and empoderamiento. Specifically, participants’ conceptualizations of servingness, based on pr…
I’m here to fight along with you”
Contextualizing the HSI
Despite the tendency to frame Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) as monolithic, HSIs situated at the U.S.-Mexico border (fronterizx HSI) are a critical site to understand how geography, communities, and language(s) intersect with what it means to serve. Conducting a qualitative case study, we explored student and faculty place-based perspectives and experiences of what it means to serve at a fronterizx HSI. Three themes emerged: borderland comm…
College as the great liberator
Examining Arizona’s Policy Response Post Flores v. Arizona in Educating K–12 English Language Learners
This article provides an analysis of Arizona’s policy response in educating English language learners by conducting a narrative review. A critical Latina/o theory approach was used to analyze the data. This study reveals 5 salient policy responses: (a) severely limit bilingual education, (b) develop controversial funding solutions, (c) implement a segregated 4-hr English language development block, (d) mandate structured English immersion–focused…
Against Unseeing
Despite historic and ongoing critiques of objectivity as the gold standard for evaluating the value of research, many doctoral students and early career scholars encounter the pressures to situate one's work alongside such demands. However, such a demand often conflicts with those who are multiply marginalized and liminal subjects. Drawing on women of color feminist and ethnic and cultural studies scholars, in this article we argue for engaging l…
DREAMzone
This article discusses the development and implementation of DREAMzone, an educational intervention designed to provide counselors and other human service professionals with awareness, knowledge, and skills for working with undocumented students. DREAMzone is driven by four learning objectives: (a) identify and deconstruct preconceptions of undocumented immigrants; (b) increase knowledge about laws and policies affecting the experiences of undocu…
Applying Racist Nativism Theory to K-12 Education Policy in Arizona, 2000-2010
Research Article| September 01 2013 Applying Racist Nativism Theory to K–12 Education Policy in Arizona, 2000–2010 Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos is an assistant professor of education policy and evaluation in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He has published widely in K-12 education policy and finance as it relates to low-income and ethnically and linguistically div…
Applying Racist Nativism Theory to K-12 Education Policy in Arizona, 2000-2010
Research Article| September 01 2013 Applying Racist Nativism Theory to K–12 Education Policy in Arizona, 2000–2010 Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos is an assistant professor of education policy and evaluation in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He has published widely in K-12 education policy and finance as it relates to low-income and ethnically and linguistically div…
Examining Arizona’s Policy Response Post Flores v. Arizona in Educating K–12 English Language Learners
This article provides an analysis of Arizona’s policy response in educating English language learners by conducting a narrative review. A critical Latina/o theory approach was used to analyze the data. This study reveals 5 salient policy responses: (a) severely limit bilingual education, (b) develop controversial funding solutions, (c) implement a segregated 4-hr English language development block, (d) mandate structured English immersion–focused…
DREAMzone
This article discusses the development and implementation of DREAMzone, an educational intervention designed to provide counselors and other human service professionals with awareness, knowledge, and skills for working with undocumented students. DREAMzone is driven by four learning objectives: (a) identify and deconstruct preconceptions of undocumented immigrants; (b) increase knowledge about laws and policies affecting the experiences of undocu…
DREAMzone
What Does It Mean to Be Undocuqueer?” Exploring (il)Legibility within the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Immigration Status
The experiences and needs of undocuqueer immigrants are actively negotiated and muted and have been little researched or addressed in relation to the broader immigrant and LGBT rights discourses. This study explores the ways undocuqueer immigrants from Latin America experience the intersection of their gender, sexuality, and immigration status and how these experiences shape their sociopolitical identities and status in the United States. Using i…
College as the great liberator
Working with the Complexity and Refusing to Simplify
This study brings gender, sexuality, and immigration status, and their conceptual margins, to the center of analysis via the narratives of 31 self-identified undocuqueer immigrants. Undocuqueer immigrants ascribe meaning to their experiences by producing alternate subjectivities and subject positions that resist multiple axes of oppression. These subjectivities problematize the exclusionary repercussions of single-axis identity categorization tha…
Coming Out of the Shadows and the Closet
Centering the experiences of 31 undocuqueer immigrants, this study seeks to understand the ways that undocuqueer immigrants negotiate the boundaries of social performance by revealing or concealing their gender, sexuality, and immigration status. Findings of this study reveal how, in order to avoid the constant threat of rejection (both legal and social), undocuqueer immigrants engage visibility schemas and make strategic decisions about coming o…
Dual language programs
Public schools across the country are increasingly working with children who enter schools speaking a language other than English. Using a case study methodology, the authors examined Dual Language Program (DLP) implementation in Arizona, which by law supports English-only education. Several benefits (bilingualism, bi-literacy, biculturalism, globalization) and challenges (curriculum, teachers, state policy, funding, and lack of access to DLPs fo…
Explorando el Impacto Psicológico del Proceso de Deportación en Inmigrantes
El propósito de este estudio cualitativo es explorar el impacto psicológico del proceso de deportación en inmigrantes mexicanos. Este estudio utilizo un enfoque fenomenológico para analizar las entrevistas realizadas a 10 individuos que fueron deportados de los Estados Unidos. El análisis de datos reveló la presencia de tres categorías principales: El Trauma de la Deportación, Volver a Empezar, y Las Cicatrices Emocionales. La primera categoría p…
Undocuqueer Stress
Exploring the intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and immigration status, this study explored the concept of minority stress among 31 Latinx undocuqueer immigrants within the context of LGBTQ "safe" spaces. For participants, LGBTQ nightclubs and relationships represented important physical and symbolic spaces where they were able to understand what it meant to be undocuqueer. Participants described experiences of fear, anxiety, and…
Against Unseeing
Despite historic and ongoing critiques of objectivity as the gold standard for evaluating the value of research, many doctoral students and early career scholars encounter the pressures to situate one's work alongside such demands. However, such a demand often conflicts with those who are multiply marginalized and liminal subjects. Drawing on women of color feminist and ethnic and cultural studies scholars, in this article we argue for engaging l…
Detrimental Effects of Color-Blind Racial Attitudes in Preparing a Culturally Responsive Teaching Workforce for Immigrants
Demands on the teacher workforce are changing as one quarter of children in U.S. schools live in immigrant families and about half of students are racial/ethnic minorities. Simultaneously, diminishing teacher support and teacher shortages cause reliance on alternative certification programs (e.g., Teach for America). In response, we studied the links between color-blind racial attitudes and culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and outcome…
The Development and Evaluation of the Stigma of Illegality and Marginalization of Latinxs (Siml) Scale
Drawing on two online studies among predominantly U.S.-born and lawful permanent resident Latinxs, we developed a self-report scale intended to capture how discrimination related to perceived legal status, as well as perceptions of racial/ethnic marginalization of Latinxs in U.S. society, are experienced among a wide swath of the Latinx population. We also explore how these processes may be associated with psychological distress in this populatio…
I’m here to fight along with you”
Drawings as tools to (re)imagine space in interdisciplinary global health research
Understanding the role of space in infectious diseases' dynamics in urban contexts is key to developing effective mitigation strategies. Urbanism, a discipline that both studies and acts upon the city, commonly uses drawings to analyze spatial patterns and their variables. This paper revisits drawings as analytical and integrative tools for interdisciplinary research. We introduce the use of drawings in two interdisciplinary projects conducted in…
Not just statistics
Centering the narratives of seven Mexican deportees, this study explored the consequences of deportation on participants' mental health. Participants' accounts of the deportation experience highlighted the frustration, fear, and disappointment individuals often felt after being forced to abandon established lives in the United States. Their narratives captured the challenges involved in migration and deportation. This study highlights the need fo…
The (un)embraced
Compromiso, Pertenencia, and Empoderamiento
Semi-structured interviews with 22 faculty at a fronterizx HSI located at the U.S.-Mexico border revealed the ways faculty perceive, enact, and engage with servingness practice. Findings provide critical insights into the relationship between servingness and faculty as empowerment agents through three culturally relevant themes: compromiso, pertenencia, and empoderamiento. Specifically, participants’ conceptualizations of servingness, based on pr…
From risk factors to disease situations
The goal of this qualitative research study, part of an interdisciplinary project, was to understand the overlapping geographical distribution of COVID-19 and tuberculosis burden in Lima. Using an ethnographic approach, we applied the concept of disease situations to explore how inhabitants' social and spatial situatedness affected their capacity to respond to the pandemic. Our results show that for some populations in Lima, the risk to develop C…
Contextualizing the HSI
Despite the tendency to frame Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) as monolithic, HSIs situated at the U.S.-Mexico border (fronterizx HSI) are a critical site to understand how geography, communities, and language(s) intersect with what it means to serve. Conducting a qualitative case study, we explored student and faculty place-based perspectives and experiences of what it means to serve at a fronterizx HSI. Three themes emerged: borderland comm…
Centering Student Voices
This paper contributes to the emerging scholarly conversation of context-specific servingness research that highlights the voices of students. Specifically, this paper focuses on 14 undergraduate and graduate students’ understandings and experiences concerning servingness at their local setting, a fronterizx Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). Our findings suggest that location plays a vital role in how undergraduate and graduate students underst…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works)