Paloma E Villegas
Biographic Data
| ID | 197982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paloma E Villegas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paloma E |
| FAMILY NAME | Villegas |
| SIGNATURE | VILLEGAS P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Bernardino |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0479-260X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Access to higher education for migration-impacted students in the USA, Canada and Mexico: A comparative analysis
Access to higher education for migration-impacted students in the USA, Canada and Mexico: A comparative analysis
Food insecurity stigma, neoliberalization, and college students in California’s Inland Empire
This paper analyzes the perspectives of college students toward food insecurity and basic needs campus resources. We draw from interviews with 49 students at one university in California’s Inland Empire conducted in 2019. We found that regardless of personal experience with food insecurity, participants were generally reluctant to access resources or disclose their experiences with the campus community. We propose that this food insecurity stigma…
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
Temporalising barriers: Postsecondary schooling access among precarious status students in Toronto
This paper examines the landscape of access to postsecondary education (PSE) for precarious status migrants in Toronto, Canada. Drawing on interview data, the paper focuses on the barriers migrant students experience when attempting to enrol in PSE due to their immigration status and how that process changed after participating in a bridging course designed to facilitate their entry to a local PSE institution. The data reveals that participants e…
Flexible and Assembled Bordering Practices for Mexicans travelling to Canada
This article examines a temporary residence visa (TRV) requirement for Mexicans travelling to Canada 2009–2016. The policy was implemented to control the travel of Mexican refugee claimants to Canada, with the explanation that they were making “bogus” claims. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis of news sources, parliamentary debates, and policy documents, I argue that the TRV and subsequent policies and practices enacted during the 2009–2016…
North of El Norte: Illegalized Mexican Migrants in Canada
North of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada. Paloma Villegas considers changing Canadian immigration policy and practice, and the implications of these changes for Mexican migrants without permanent resident status. Her analysis addresses the context in Mexico, the experience …
Integration, Settler Colonialism, and Precarious Legal Status Migrants in Canada
Part of Being Canadian Is Having Access to Healthcare”: Framing the Boundaries of Healthcare Deservingness for Non-Citizens through the Interim Federal Health Benefits Program
Background In June 2012, the Canadian government cut eligibility to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) for some refugees and refugee claimants. Analysis Drawing from news sources, this article examines the ways different actors—politicians and advocates—framed deservingness and undeservingness to support or contest the IFHP cuts. Deservingness refers to the ways value or worth is allocated to differently situated individuals based on their…
A Double Punishment: The Context of Postsecondary Access for Racialized Precarious Status Migrant Students in Toronto, Canada
This article examines how the immigration and schooling systems in Canada intersect to deny access to migrant youth with precarious status throughout educational trajectories. While there are access policies at the primary and secondary school level, barriers increase in post-secondary education. We argue that such students transitioning to university experience a “double punishment” through racialized exclusion in the education and immigration s…
I made myself small like a cat and ran away: Workplace Sexual Harassment, Precarious Immigration Status and Legal Violence
This article examines the intersection between workplace sexual harassment, immigration status, and insecure employment status (‘precarious work’). Although a rich body of literature explores how gender impacts all three fields independently, less is known about how they interact. Drawing on narratives from migrant women with precarious immigration status in Toronto, Canada, I propose that experiences of sexual harassment illuminate the workings …
Fishing for Precarious Status Migrants: Surveillant Assemblages of Migrant Illegalization in Toronto, Canada
Migrants with precarious immigration status in Canada encounter surveillant assemblages of illegalization that threaten their safety and ability to access social goods. Drawing on qualitative interviews, media stories, and government documents, this article analyses how surveillance is produced through various ways of knowing, by various actors, and in different institutions in Canada. My case study demonstrates that the sites of operation for su…
Moments of Humiliation, Intimidation and Implied 'Illegality: Encounters with Immigration Officials at the Border and the Performance of Sovereignty
This paper examines the role of border encounter—the set of interactions between potential entrants into a country and the country's immigration officials. These interactions are laden with power relations and can involve moments of interrogation, intimidation and humiliation on the side of immigration officials and negotiations and resourcefulness on the side of potential entrants. I argue that these sets of interactions, organised by the assemb…
Interlocking migrant illegalization with other markers of social location: The experiences of Mexican migrants moving and working in Toronto
I can't even buy a bed because I don't know if I'll have to leave tomorrow: Temporal orientations among Mexican precarious status migrants in Toronto
This paper analyzes the links between migrant illegalization and precarious status migrants' temporal orientations. I begin by evaluating research on three research orientations in this area: (1) research that focuses on temporal contingency versus temporal teleology; (2) research about immigration status, illegalization, and time; and (3) research on the link between precarious immigration status and precarious work. I then draw on interviews wi…
Assembling a visa requirement against the Mexican 'wave: Migrant illegalization, policy and affective 'crises' in Canada
Using the example of a 2009 visa requirement imposed onto Mexican nationals travelling to Canada, this paper frames migrant illegalization as an assemblage that brings together transnational connections, discursive and affective productions, modes of racialization and migrant negotiations. More specifically, the paper maps the events leading to the crafting of the visa requirement and the ensemble of stakeholders - Canadian immigration officials,…
I can't even buy a bed because I don't know if I'll have to leave tomorrow: Temporal orientations among Mexican precarious status migrants in Toronto
This paper analyzes the links between migrant illegalization and precarious status migrants' temporal orientations. I begin by evaluating research on three research orientations in this area: (1) research that focuses on temporal contingency versus temporal teleology; (2) research about immigration status, illegalization, and time; and (3) research on the link between precarious immigration status and precarious work. I then draw on interviews wi…
Fishing for Precarious Status Migrants: Surveillant Assemblages of Migrant Illegalization in Toronto, Canada
Migrants with precarious immigration status in Canada encounter surveillant assemblages of illegalization that threaten their safety and ability to access social goods. Drawing on qualitative interviews, media stories, and government documents, this article analyses how surveillance is produced through various ways of knowing, by various actors, and in different institutions in Canada. My case study demonstrates that the sites of operation for su…
Moments of Humiliation, Intimidation and Implied 'Illegality: Encounters with Immigration Officials at the Border and the Performance of Sovereignty
This paper examines the role of border encounter—the set of interactions between potential entrants into a country and the country's immigration officials. These interactions are laden with power relations and can involve moments of interrogation, intimidation and humiliation on the side of immigration officials and negotiations and resourcefulness on the side of potential entrants. I argue that these sets of interactions, organised by the assemb…
I made myself small like a cat and ran away: Workplace Sexual Harassment, Precarious Immigration Status and Legal Violence
This article examines the intersection between workplace sexual harassment, immigration status, and insecure employment status (‘precarious work’). Although a rich body of literature explores how gender impacts all three fields independently, less is known about how they interact. Drawing on narratives from migrant women with precarious immigration status in Toronto, Canada, I propose that experiences of sexual harassment illuminate the workings …
North of El Norte: Illegalized Mexican Migrants in Canada
North of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada. Paloma Villegas considers changing Canadian immigration policy and practice, and the implications of these changes for Mexican migrants without permanent resident status. Her analysis addresses the context in Mexico, the experience …
Assembling a visa requirement against the Mexican 'wave: Migrant illegalization, policy and affective 'crises' in Canada
Using the example of a 2009 visa requirement imposed onto Mexican nationals travelling to Canada, this paper frames migrant illegalization as an assemblage that brings together transnational connections, discursive and affective productions, modes of racialization and migrant negotiations. More specifically, the paper maps the events leading to the crafting of the visa requirement and the ensemble of stakeholders - Canadian immigration officials,…
Integration, Settler Colonialism, and Precarious Legal Status Migrants in Canada
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
A Double Punishment: The Context of Postsecondary Access for Racialized Precarious Status Migrant Students in Toronto, Canada
This article examines how the immigration and schooling systems in Canada intersect to deny access to migrant youth with precarious status throughout educational trajectories. While there are access policies at the primary and secondary school level, barriers increase in post-secondary education. We argue that such students transitioning to university experience a “double punishment” through racialized exclusion in the education and immigration s…
Interlocking migrant illegalization with other markers of social location: The experiences of Mexican migrants moving and working in Toronto
Flexible and Assembled Bordering Practices for Mexicans travelling to Canada
This article examines a temporary residence visa (TRV) requirement for Mexicans travelling to Canada 2009–2016. The policy was implemented to control the travel of Mexican refugee claimants to Canada, with the explanation that they were making “bogus” claims. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis of news sources, parliamentary debates, and policy documents, I argue that the TRV and subsequent policies and practices enacted during the 2009–2016…
Assembling a visa requirement against the Mexican 'wave: Migrant illegalization, policy and affective 'crises' in Canada
Using the example of a 2009 visa requirement imposed onto Mexican nationals travelling to Canada, this paper frames migrant illegalization as an assemblage that brings together transnational connections, discursive and affective productions, modes of racialization and migrant negotiations. More specifically, the paper maps the events leading to the crafting of the visa requirement and the ensemble of stakeholders - Canadian immigration officials,…
Interlocking migrant illegalization with other markers of social location: The experiences of Mexican migrants moving and working in Toronto
I can't even buy a bed because I don't know if I'll have to leave tomorrow: Temporal orientations among Mexican precarious status migrants in Toronto
This paper analyzes the links between migrant illegalization and precarious status migrants' temporal orientations. I begin by evaluating research on three research orientations in this area: (1) research that focuses on temporal contingency versus temporal teleology; (2) research about immigration status, illegalization, and time; and (3) research on the link between precarious immigration status and precarious work. I then draw on interviews wi…
Fishing for Precarious Status Migrants: Surveillant Assemblages of Migrant Illegalization in Toronto, Canada
Migrants with precarious immigration status in Canada encounter surveillant assemblages of illegalization that threaten their safety and ability to access social goods. Drawing on qualitative interviews, media stories, and government documents, this article analyses how surveillance is produced through various ways of knowing, by various actors, and in different institutions in Canada. My case study demonstrates that the sites of operation for su…
Moments of Humiliation, Intimidation and Implied 'Illegality: Encounters with Immigration Officials at the Border and the Performance of Sovereignty
This paper examines the role of border encounter—the set of interactions between potential entrants into a country and the country's immigration officials. These interactions are laden with power relations and can involve moments of interrogation, intimidation and humiliation on the side of immigration officials and negotiations and resourcefulness on the side of potential entrants. I argue that these sets of interactions, organised by the assemb…
Part of Being Canadian Is Having Access to Healthcare”: Framing the Boundaries of Healthcare Deservingness for Non-Citizens through the Interim Federal Health Benefits Program
Background In June 2012, the Canadian government cut eligibility to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) for some refugees and refugee claimants. Analysis Drawing from news sources, this article examines the ways different actors—politicians and advocates—framed deservingness and undeservingness to support or contest the IFHP cuts. Deservingness refers to the ways value or worth is allocated to differently situated individuals based on their…
A Double Punishment: The Context of Postsecondary Access for Racialized Precarious Status Migrant Students in Toronto, Canada
This article examines how the immigration and schooling systems in Canada intersect to deny access to migrant youth with precarious status throughout educational trajectories. While there are access policies at the primary and secondary school level, barriers increase in post-secondary education. We argue that such students transitioning to university experience a “double punishment” through racialized exclusion in the education and immigration s…
I made myself small like a cat and ran away: Workplace Sexual Harassment, Precarious Immigration Status and Legal Violence
This article examines the intersection between workplace sexual harassment, immigration status, and insecure employment status (‘precarious work’). Although a rich body of literature explores how gender impacts all three fields independently, less is known about how they interact. Drawing on narratives from migrant women with precarious immigration status in Toronto, Canada, I propose that experiences of sexual harassment illuminate the workings …
Flexible and Assembled Bordering Practices for Mexicans travelling to Canada
This article examines a temporary residence visa (TRV) requirement for Mexicans travelling to Canada 2009–2016. The policy was implemented to control the travel of Mexican refugee claimants to Canada, with the explanation that they were making “bogus” claims. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis of news sources, parliamentary debates, and policy documents, I argue that the TRV and subsequent policies and practices enacted during the 2009–2016…
North of El Norte: Illegalized Mexican Migrants in Canada
North of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada. Paloma Villegas considers changing Canadian immigration policy and practice, and the implications of these changes for Mexican migrants without permanent resident status. Her analysis addresses the context in Mexico, the experience …
Integration, Settler Colonialism, and Precarious Legal Status Migrants in Canada
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
Temporalising barriers: Postsecondary schooling access among precarious status students in Toronto
This paper examines the landscape of access to postsecondary education (PSE) for precarious status migrants in Toronto, Canada. Drawing on interview data, the paper focuses on the barriers migrant students experience when attempting to enrol in PSE due to their immigration status and how that process changed after participating in a bridging course designed to facilitate their entry to a local PSE institution. The data reveals that participants e…
Food insecurity stigma, neoliberalization, and college students in California’s Inland Empire
This paper analyzes the perspectives of college students toward food insecurity and basic needs campus resources. We draw from interviews with 49 students at one university in California’s Inland Empire conducted in 2019. We found that regardless of personal experience with food insecurity, participants were generally reluctant to access resources or disclose their experiences with the campus community. We propose that this food insecurity stigma…
Access to higher education for migration-impacted students in the USA, Canada and Mexico: A comparative analysis
Access to higher education for migration-impacted students in the USA, Canada and Mexico: A comparative analysis
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)