Heidy Sarabia
Biographic Data
| ID | 203909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidy Sarabia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarabia |
| SIGNATURE | SARABIA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Sacramento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1700-0811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Natives to Aliens
This article examines the removals of Indigenous-ancestry immigrants over the past twenty-five years in the United States. Specifically, we analyze (1) the deportations of Mexican/Latinx immigrants around the period of the 2008 Great Recession and (2) the historical connections with the removals of people of Indigenous ancestry/heritage (PIAH). Reviewing scholarly literature and analyzing data from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), we…
(Re) Framing Legal Vulnerability: Identity, Abjection, and Resistance among Dacamented Immigrants in the Era of Trumpism
This article explores the narratives published in the New York Times by and about undocumented and DACAmented immigrants to explore how the abjective status of undocumented migration has shifted to the question of criminality. Using the stories shared by young undocumented immigrants publicly in the New York Times, after the election of Donald Trump, as well as the narratives used by politicians (like Trump), we analyze their narratives to explor…
What Helps Students Get Help: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors that Shape Undocumented College Students’ Use of Academic Support Services
Academic support services are an important institutional resource that can support student success and retention. However, little research has examined undocumented students’ resource uptake, aside from demonstrating that exclusionary policies and experiences reduce undocumented students’ access to and use of institutional resources. In this article, we use regression analysis to identify what factors may contribute to undocumented students’ use …
Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students’ experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented 4-year college students in California, we examine how undocumented students are faring in a relatively inc…
Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State: Framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border
This article focuses on how different actors frame and respond to violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border, and points to the institutions available for redress – focusing on migrants, activists, and state actors. Through this comparison, the article highlights the way violence along the U.S.-Mexico border becomes pervasive, normalized, and incontestable due to the lack of institutional paths to address this violence, while s…
Receptionists, doctors, and social workers: Examining undocumented immigrant women's perceptions of health services
The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Data clearly show the minimal gang violence occurring along the U.S.-Mexico border, and yet law enforcement officers often framed it as a very serious issue in the community. Robert Duran’s book, The Gang Paradox, explores the mismatch between the fiction of a violent border and the reality in the mainstream media: it is peaceful and safe as compared to other regions with similar levels of poverty. He begins by showing that gangs have not really …
Citizenship in the Global South: Policing Irregular Migrants and Eroding Citizenship Rights in Mexico
Research on the consequences of being an undocumented migrant has focused mostly on the experiences of migrants in the Global North. Examination of experiences in Mexico reveals the export by the United States of a transnational regime of illegality that has transformed the citizenship rights of Mexican migrants in their own territory. La investigación sobre las consecuencias de ser un migrante indocumentado se ha centrado principalmente en las e…
Felons, not Families”: Criminalized illegality, stigma, and membership of deported “criminal aliens”
Since the 1990s, U.S. immigration enforcement has focused on detaining and deporting unauthorized migrants labeled as “criminal aliens,” most of whom (about three-fourths) are Mexican nationals. Yet, little data exist on this population of migrants. Using a transnational lens, and drawing from analysis of government and media, as well as participant observation data collected along the border, this article shows the consequences of the stigmatiza…
Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation
Borderland attachments: Citizenship and belonging along the U.S.–Mexico border
This article reveals how economic resources and legal status (vis-à-vis the U.S.) shape national attachments and citizenship practices in the context of the U.S.–Mexico border. Through the comparison of middle- and working-class Mexicans, this article highlights how middle-class Mexicans with tourist visas to travel to the U.S. develop what I call transborder citizenship, while deported working-class migrants – legally banned from returning to th…
Staying out of Trouble" and Doing What Is "Right: Citizenship Acts, Citizenship Ideals, and the Effects of Legal Status on Second-Generation Youth
This article asks whether parents' legal status as noncitizens or undocumented migrants leads U.S.-born youth to engage in active, compensatory political and civic participation or whether parents' legal exclusion generates apolitical, even alienated views of citizenship. Drawing on 54 in-depth interviews conducted over a 2-year period with 40 teenagers from Mexican-origin immigrant families living in the San Francisco Bay area, we find no eviden…
Global South cosmopolitans: The opening and closing of the USA-Mexico border for Mexican tourists
The US government has simultaneously increased efforts to close its border to unauthorized migrants, and opened the border to increasing flows of tourists from Mexico. In this paper I focus on the experiences of Mexican tourists who are able to freely cross the USA-Mexico border with US visas, given that their unique status as tourists from Mexico is an important element to consider because it organizes their daily lives, their moral understandin…
Organizing “Below and to the Left”: Differences in the Citizenship and Transnational Practices of Two Zapatista Groups
This article examines the political transnational practices—that is, both the physical and symbolic border‐crossing political practices—of two Zapatista groups. This study seeks to contribute to the existing body of literature on transnationalism and citizenship by focusing on immigrants’ political transnational activities in the global South, as well as transnational activists’ practices in the global North influenced by the global South. I argu…
Global South cosmopolitans: The opening and closing of the USA-Mexico border for Mexican tourists
The US government has simultaneously increased efforts to close its border to unauthorized migrants, and opened the border to increasing flows of tourists from Mexico. In this paper I focus on the experiences of Mexican tourists who are able to freely cross the USA-Mexico border with US visas, given that their unique status as tourists from Mexico is an important element to consider because it organizes their daily lives, their moral understandin…
Staying out of Trouble" and Doing What Is "Right: Citizenship Acts, Citizenship Ideals, and the Effects of Legal Status on Second-Generation Youth
This article asks whether parents' legal status as noncitizens or undocumented migrants leads U.S.-born youth to engage in active, compensatory political and civic participation or whether parents' legal exclusion generates apolitical, even alienated views of citizenship. Drawing on 54 in-depth interviews conducted over a 2-year period with 40 teenagers from Mexican-origin immigrant families living in the San Francisco Bay area, we find no eviden…
Receptionists, doctors, and social workers: Examining undocumented immigrant women's perceptions of health services
Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students’ experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented 4-year college students in California, we examine how undocumented students are faring in a relatively inc…
Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State: Framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border
This article focuses on how different actors frame and respond to violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border, and points to the institutions available for redress – focusing on migrants, activists, and state actors. Through this comparison, the article highlights the way violence along the U.S.-Mexico border becomes pervasive, normalized, and incontestable due to the lack of institutional paths to address this violence, while s…
Citizenship in the Global South: Policing Irregular Migrants and Eroding Citizenship Rights in Mexico
Research on the consequences of being an undocumented migrant has focused mostly on the experiences of migrants in the Global North. Examination of experiences in Mexico reveals the export by the United States of a transnational regime of illegality that has transformed the citizenship rights of Mexican migrants in their own territory. La investigación sobre las consecuencias de ser un migrante indocumentado se ha centrado principalmente en las e…
What Helps Students Get Help: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors that Shape Undocumented College Students’ Use of Academic Support Services
Academic support services are an important institutional resource that can support student success and retention. However, little research has examined undocumented students’ resource uptake, aside from demonstrating that exclusionary policies and experiences reduce undocumented students’ access to and use of institutional resources. In this article, we use regression analysis to identify what factors may contribute to undocumented students’ use …
The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Data clearly show the minimal gang violence occurring along the U.S.-Mexico border, and yet law enforcement officers often framed it as a very serious issue in the community. Robert Duran’s book, The Gang Paradox, explores the mismatch between the fiction of a violent border and the reality in the mainstream media: it is peaceful and safe as compared to other regions with similar levels of poverty. He begins by showing that gangs have not really …
Borderland attachments: Citizenship and belonging along the U.S.–Mexico border
This article reveals how economic resources and legal status (vis-à-vis the U.S.) shape national attachments and citizenship practices in the context of the U.S.–Mexico border. Through the comparison of middle- and working-class Mexicans, this article highlights how middle-class Mexicans with tourist visas to travel to the U.S. develop what I call transborder citizenship, while deported working-class migrants – legally banned from returning to th…
Organizing “Below and to the Left”: Differences in the Citizenship and Transnational Practices of Two Zapatista Groups
This article examines the political transnational practices—that is, both the physical and symbolic border‐crossing political practices—of two Zapatista groups. This study seeks to contribute to the existing body of literature on transnationalism and citizenship by focusing on immigrants’ political transnational activities in the global South, as well as transnational activists’ practices in the global North influenced by the global South. I argu…
Organizing “Below and to the Left”: Differences in the Citizenship and Transnational Practices of Two Zapatista Groups
This article examines the political transnational practices—that is, both the physical and symbolic border‐crossing political practices—of two Zapatista groups. This study seeks to contribute to the existing body of literature on transnationalism and citizenship by focusing on immigrants’ political transnational activities in the global South, as well as transnational activists’ practices in the global North influenced by the global South. I argu…
Global South cosmopolitans: The opening and closing of the USA-Mexico border for Mexican tourists
The US government has simultaneously increased efforts to close its border to unauthorized migrants, and opened the border to increasing flows of tourists from Mexico. In this paper I focus on the experiences of Mexican tourists who are able to freely cross the USA-Mexico border with US visas, given that their unique status as tourists from Mexico is an important element to consider because it organizes their daily lives, their moral understandin…
Borderland attachments: Citizenship and belonging along the U.S.–Mexico border
This article reveals how economic resources and legal status (vis-à-vis the U.S.) shape national attachments and citizenship practices in the context of the U.S.–Mexico border. Through the comparison of middle- and working-class Mexicans, this article highlights how middle-class Mexicans with tourist visas to travel to the U.S. develop what I call transborder citizenship, while deported working-class migrants – legally banned from returning to th…
Staying out of Trouble" and Doing What Is "Right: Citizenship Acts, Citizenship Ideals, and the Effects of Legal Status on Second-Generation Youth
This article asks whether parents' legal status as noncitizens or undocumented migrants leads U.S.-born youth to engage in active, compensatory political and civic participation or whether parents' legal exclusion generates apolitical, even alienated views of citizenship. Drawing on 54 in-depth interviews conducted over a 2-year period with 40 teenagers from Mexican-origin immigrant families living in the San Francisco Bay area, we find no eviden…
Felons, not Families”: Criminalized illegality, stigma, and membership of deported “criminal aliens”
Since the 1990s, U.S. immigration enforcement has focused on detaining and deporting unauthorized migrants labeled as “criminal aliens,” most of whom (about three-fourths) are Mexican nationals. Yet, little data exist on this population of migrants. Using a transnational lens, and drawing from analysis of government and media, as well as participant observation data collected along the border, this article shows the consequences of the stigmatiza…
Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation
The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Data clearly show the minimal gang violence occurring along the U.S.-Mexico border, and yet law enforcement officers often framed it as a very serious issue in the community. Robert Duran’s book, The Gang Paradox, explores the mismatch between the fiction of a violent border and the reality in the mainstream media: it is peaceful and safe as compared to other regions with similar levels of poverty. He begins by showing that gangs have not really …
Citizenship in the Global South: Policing Irregular Migrants and Eroding Citizenship Rights in Mexico
Research on the consequences of being an undocumented migrant has focused mostly on the experiences of migrants in the Global North. Examination of experiences in Mexico reveals the export by the United States of a transnational regime of illegality that has transformed the citizenship rights of Mexican migrants in their own territory. La investigación sobre las consecuencias de ser un migrante indocumentado se ha centrado principalmente en las e…
Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State: Framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border
This article focuses on how different actors frame and respond to violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border, and points to the institutions available for redress – focusing on migrants, activists, and state actors. Through this comparison, the article highlights the way violence along the U.S.-Mexico border becomes pervasive, normalized, and incontestable due to the lack of institutional paths to address this violence, while s…
Receptionists, doctors, and social workers: Examining undocumented immigrant women's perceptions of health services
What Helps Students Get Help: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors that Shape Undocumented College Students’ Use of Academic Support Services
Academic support services are an important institutional resource that can support student success and retention. However, little research has examined undocumented students’ resource uptake, aside from demonstrating that exclusionary policies and experiences reduce undocumented students’ access to and use of institutional resources. In this article, we use regression analysis to identify what factors may contribute to undocumented students’ use …
Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students’ experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented 4-year college students in California, we examine how undocumented students are faring in a relatively inc…
(Re) Framing Legal Vulnerability: Identity, Abjection, and Resistance among Dacamented Immigrants in the Era of Trumpism
This article explores the narratives published in the New York Times by and about undocumented and DACAmented immigrants to explore how the abjective status of undocumented migration has shifted to the question of criminality. Using the stories shared by young undocumented immigrants publicly in the New York Times, after the election of Donald Trump, as well as the narratives used by politicians (like Trump), we analyze their narratives to explor…
From Natives to Aliens
This article examines the removals of Indigenous-ancestry immigrants over the past twenty-five years in the United States. Specifically, we analyze (1) the deportations of Mexican/Latinx immigrants around the period of the 2008 Great Recession and (2) the historical connections with the removals of people of Indigenous ancestry/heritage (PIAH). Reviewing scholarly literature and analyzing data from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), we…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Citizenship (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works)