A Garni
Biographic Data
| ID | 17471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Garni |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Garni |
| SIGNATURE | GARNI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8599-2448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Asylum, it’s not a real thing anymore: Paralegal and Temporal Modalities for Excluding U.S. Asylum Seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean
Governments deny people’s internationally recognized rights to asylum by preventing them from arriving in territories where they may request asylum and by using case law to restrict eligibility. While research tends to focus on either deflection or restriction tactics, this paper builds on studies that examine the interaction between them. To further examine the interaction between these “bordering” practices at and beyond the physical U.S. borde…
Crafting Mass Dairy Production: Immigration and Community in Rural America
In many parts of rural America, agrofood producers compete for a larger share of global markets by mechanizing, deskilling, and flexibly relocating to reduce labor costs. They recruit new immigrant workers but sow transience rather than sustainable rural growth. The industrialization of U.S. dairy farming appears to be aligned with these processes, and yet the large-scale dairy farmers who have replaced small craft producers face a paradox: The m…
Brewing Coffee Party Activism in Tea Party Territory: Faith and Politics in Rural America
How do people remain politically active in hostile or seemingly hopeless contexts? We apply Jack Barbalet’s theory of “confidence” as a necessary precursor to “action” to understand how members of a liberal, local “Coffee Party” movement confront powerful political and religious opposition in a conservative, rural, midwestern city. Barbalet’s grounding of “confidence” in “acceptance and recognition” in social relationships improves upon the popul…
Mexican Migration to the United States: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Border
American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States
Transnational Traders: El Salvador's Women Couriers in Historical Perspective
An estimated one-third to one-half of Salvadorans who carry remittances and goods between El Salvador and the United States are women. Scholars studying these viajeras argue that their work simultaneously represents a break from traditional gender relations confining women to the home and an extension of gender traits that favor women in developing social ties. Although social ties are crucial to the courier trade, this argument ignores anteceden…
Land Tenure, Migration, and Development: A Comparative Case Study
Comparative analysis of two Salvadoran towns with similar patterns of international migration but different historical land-tenure patterns reveals the emergence of radically different development strategies. Whereas in one case, mostly landed households with a history of farming commercially have been selling land and abandoning agriculture, in the other case, previously landless households whose members worked as sharecroppers before the onset …
Dollars, "Free Trade," and Migration: The Combined Forces of Alienation in Postwar El Salvador
Driven by new conditions of desperation and alienation, mass migration in postwar El Salvador has continued unabated. While this migration could be seen as a way of "opting out" of ongoing class struggle, we argue that it instead represents a critical dissipation of class relations and struggle. In the postwar context, the ruling class and the Salvadoran state seek to capitalize on the alienation of their own people and their responses to that al…
Neoliberal Mystification: Crime and Estrangement in El Salvador
How do Salvadorans' varying responses to nationwide neoliberal restructuring affect their experiences and perceptions of crime? Official rhetoric regarding crime in El Salvador privileges highly individualized understandings over ones that would interrogate the relationship between crime and changing socioeconomic and political conditions. Nonetheless, several scholars have begun to examine the relationship between neoliberalism in war-torn Centr…
Mechanisms of Migration: Poverty and Social Instability in the Postwar Expansion of Central American Migration to the United States
How does migration affect the conditions in which Central Americans live and decide whether to migrate? Network theories have dominated explanations of exponentially growing migratory flows. These theories have inspired many studies on mechanisms of perpetuated migration that tend to suggest such migration can occur without any connection to poverty in sending conditions. However, fieldwork conducted in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Sout…
Localized Immigration Policy and Migrant Life Experiences: The Case of Mexican Migrants in Southern California
How do Mexican migrants experience and respond to policies designed to affect their migration and settlement plans in Los Angeles? Which policies prove most salient? Drawing on life history interviews with authorized and unauthorized migrants in Los Angeles, we find that a mix of federal, state and local level policies affect the daily lives and behaviors of our migrant informants. Once in the U.S., however, given the current state of federal lev…
Dollars, "Free Trade," and Migration: The Combined Forces of Alienation in Postwar El Salvador
Driven by new conditions of desperation and alienation, mass migration in postwar El Salvador has continued unabated. While this migration could be seen as a way of "opting out" of ongoing class struggle, we argue that it instead represents a critical dissipation of class relations and struggle. In the postwar context, the ruling class and the Salvadoran state seek to capitalize on the alienation of their own people and their responses to that al…
Crafting Mass Dairy Production: Immigration and Community in Rural America
In many parts of rural America, agrofood producers compete for a larger share of global markets by mechanizing, deskilling, and flexibly relocating to reduce labor costs. They recruit new immigrant workers but sow transience rather than sustainable rural growth. The industrialization of U.S. dairy farming appears to be aligned with these processes, and yet the large-scale dairy farmers who have replaced small craft producers face a paradox: The m…
Localized Immigration Policy and Migrant Life Experiences: The Case of Mexican Migrants in Southern California
How do Mexican migrants experience and respond to policies designed to affect their migration and settlement plans in Los Angeles? Which policies prove most salient? Drawing on life history interviews with authorized and unauthorized migrants in Los Angeles, we find that a mix of federal, state and local level policies affect the daily lives and behaviors of our migrant informants. Once in the U.S., however, given the current state of federal lev…
Mechanisms of Migration: Poverty and Social Instability in the Postwar Expansion of Central American Migration to the United States
How does migration affect the conditions in which Central Americans live and decide whether to migrate? Network theories have dominated explanations of exponentially growing migratory flows. These theories have inspired many studies on mechanisms of perpetuated migration that tend to suggest such migration can occur without any connection to poverty in sending conditions. However, fieldwork conducted in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Sout…
Brewing Coffee Party Activism in Tea Party Territory: Faith and Politics in Rural America
How do people remain politically active in hostile or seemingly hopeless contexts? We apply Jack Barbalet’s theory of “confidence” as a necessary precursor to “action” to understand how members of a liberal, local “Coffee Party” movement confront powerful political and religious opposition in a conservative, rural, midwestern city. Barbalet’s grounding of “confidence” in “acceptance and recognition” in social relationships improves upon the popul…
Mexican Migration to the United States: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Border
Transnational Traders: El Salvador's Women Couriers in Historical Perspective
An estimated one-third to one-half of Salvadorans who carry remittances and goods between El Salvador and the United States are women. Scholars studying these viajeras argue that their work simultaneously represents a break from traditional gender relations confining women to the home and an extension of gender traits that favor women in developing social ties. Although social ties are crucial to the courier trade, this argument ignores anteceden…
Neoliberal Mystification: Crime and Estrangement in El Salvador
How do Salvadorans' varying responses to nationwide neoliberal restructuring affect their experiences and perceptions of crime? Official rhetoric regarding crime in El Salvador privileges highly individualized understandings over ones that would interrogate the relationship between crime and changing socioeconomic and political conditions. Nonetheless, several scholars have begun to examine the relationship between neoliberalism in war-torn Centr…
Localized Immigration Policy and Migrant Life Experiences: The Case of Mexican Migrants in Southern California
How do Mexican migrants experience and respond to policies designed to affect their migration and settlement plans in Los Angeles? Which policies prove most salient? Drawing on life history interviews with authorized and unauthorized migrants in Los Angeles, we find that a mix of federal, state and local level policies affect the daily lives and behaviors of our migrant informants. Once in the U.S., however, given the current state of federal lev…
Mechanisms of Migration: Poverty and Social Instability in the Postwar Expansion of Central American Migration to the United States
How does migration affect the conditions in which Central Americans live and decide whether to migrate? Network theories have dominated explanations of exponentially growing migratory flows. These theories have inspired many studies on mechanisms of perpetuated migration that tend to suggest such migration can occur without any connection to poverty in sending conditions. However, fieldwork conducted in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Sout…
Land Tenure, Migration, and Development: A Comparative Case Study
Comparative analysis of two Salvadoran towns with similar patterns of international migration but different historical land-tenure patterns reveals the emergence of radically different development strategies. Whereas in one case, mostly landed households with a history of farming commercially have been selling land and abandoning agriculture, in the other case, previously landless households whose members worked as sharecroppers before the onset …
Dollars, "Free Trade," and Migration: The Combined Forces of Alienation in Postwar El Salvador
Driven by new conditions of desperation and alienation, mass migration in postwar El Salvador has continued unabated. While this migration could be seen as a way of "opting out" of ongoing class struggle, we argue that it instead represents a critical dissipation of class relations and struggle. In the postwar context, the ruling class and the Salvadoran state seek to capitalize on the alienation of their own people and their responses to that al…
Neoliberal Mystification: Crime and Estrangement in El Salvador
How do Salvadorans' varying responses to nationwide neoliberal restructuring affect their experiences and perceptions of crime? Official rhetoric regarding crime in El Salvador privileges highly individualized understandings over ones that would interrogate the relationship between crime and changing socioeconomic and political conditions. Nonetheless, several scholars have begun to examine the relationship between neoliberalism in war-torn Centr…
Transnational Traders: El Salvador's Women Couriers in Historical Perspective
An estimated one-third to one-half of Salvadorans who carry remittances and goods between El Salvador and the United States are women. Scholars studying these viajeras argue that their work simultaneously represents a break from traditional gender relations confining women to the home and an extension of gender traits that favor women in developing social ties. Although social ties are crucial to the courier trade, this argument ignores anteceden…
American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States
Mexican Migration to the United States: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Border
Crafting Mass Dairy Production: Immigration and Community in Rural America
In many parts of rural America, agrofood producers compete for a larger share of global markets by mechanizing, deskilling, and flexibly relocating to reduce labor costs. They recruit new immigrant workers but sow transience rather than sustainable rural growth. The industrialization of U.S. dairy farming appears to be aligned with these processes, and yet the large-scale dairy farmers who have replaced small craft producers face a paradox: The m…
Brewing Coffee Party Activism in Tea Party Territory: Faith and Politics in Rural America
How do people remain politically active in hostile or seemingly hopeless contexts? We apply Jack Barbalet’s theory of “confidence” as a necessary precursor to “action” to understand how members of a liberal, local “Coffee Party” movement confront powerful political and religious opposition in a conservative, rural, midwestern city. Barbalet’s grounding of “confidence” in “acceptance and recognition” in social relationships improves upon the popul…
Asylum, it’s not a real thing anymore: Paralegal and Temporal Modalities for Excluding U.S. Asylum Seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean
Governments deny people’s internationally recognized rights to asylum by preventing them from arriving in territories where they may request asylum and by using case law to restrict eligibility. While research tends to focus on either deflection or restriction tactics, this paper builds on studies that examine the interaction between them. To further examine the interaction between these “bordering” practices at and beyond the physical U.S. borde…
Political science (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works)