Christine Kovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 233571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Kovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovic |
| SIGNATURE | KOVIC C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston - Clear Lake |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3955-2799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human rights
Borders and Bridges: Migration, Anthropology, and Human Rights
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Rights, Religion, and Violence at Mexico’s Borders
How do the faithful, poor and non-poor alike, live their everyday faith in the context of poverty, violence, and oppression? How have different sectors of church leadership understood and responded to poverty and violence? How have acts of the faithful pressured members of the church leadership to respond? The chapter explores violence in contemporary Latin America and the Church’s involvement in politics to resist such violence. It focuses on Me…
On Strike: Student Activism, Cuny, and Engaged Anthropology
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
Migrant bodies as targets of security policies: Central Americans crossing Mexico's vertical border
Nafta’s Highway of Death
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristine KovicChristine Kovic is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. She has conducted research in Mexico and the United States in the field of human rights for the past 20 years. Her current research addresses the intersection of human rights and immigration, with emphasis on Central American migrants crossing Mexico in the journey north and on the human rights …
Demanding to Be Seen and Heard: Latino Immigrant Organizing and the Defense of Human Rights in Houston
Latino migrants in Houston mobilize in myriad ways to defend their rights in the current context of increased enforcement and restrictive laws. Through an exploration of the mobilization strategies of Living Hope Wheelchair Association, an organization of Latino migrants with spinal cord injuries, this article considers the ways this organization reframes migration as an issue of human rights and social justice rather than one of criminalization.…
Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel - by Kelly, Patty
Jumping from A Moving Train: Risk, Migration and Rights at Nafta's Southern Border
July 2007. Hundreds of Central American migrants were camped along the railway tracks in Arriaga, Chiapas waiting to for the freight train to leave. Some were eating, perhaps their last food for days, others had bottles of water tied across their shoulders, some attempted to rest under the train cars to escape the hot sun. One young man brushed his teeth under the trees, using the water he carried in a recycled coca-cola bottle, to prepare himsel…
Fronteras seguras, cuerpos vulnerables: Migración Y Género en La Frontera Sur
Fronteras seguras, cuerpos vulnerables: migración y género en la frontera sur
The Struggle for Liberation and Reconciliation in Chiapas, Mexico: Las Abejas and the Path of Nonviolent Resistance
In past few years conflict has escalated in Chiapas, Mexico, not only between Ejercito Zapatista de Liberaci6n Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation-EZLN) and Mexican government but also within indigenous communities, where political divisions have increased, thousands of people have been displaced, and over a hundred political assassinations have taken place. Paramilitary groups formed and operating within rural communities have terror…
Migrant bodies as targets of security policies: Central Americans crossing Mexico's vertical border
On Strike: Student Activism, Cuny, and Engaged Anthropology
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
Demanding to Be Seen and Heard: Latino Immigrant Organizing and the Defense of Human Rights in Houston
Latino migrants in Houston mobilize in myriad ways to defend their rights in the current context of increased enforcement and restrictive laws. Through an exploration of the mobilization strategies of Living Hope Wheelchair Association, an organization of Latino migrants with spinal cord injuries, this article considers the ways this organization reframes migration as an issue of human rights and social justice rather than one of criminalization.…
The Struggle for Liberation and Reconciliation in Chiapas, Mexico: Las Abejas and the Path of Nonviolent Resistance
In past few years conflict has escalated in Chiapas, Mexico, not only between Ejercito Zapatista de Liberaci6n Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation-EZLN) and Mexican government but also within indigenous communities, where political divisions have increased, thousands of people have been displaced, and over a hundred political assassinations have taken place. Paramilitary groups formed and operating within rural communities have terror…
The Struggle for Liberation and Reconciliation in Chiapas, Mexico: Las Abejas and the Path of Nonviolent Resistance
In past few years conflict has escalated in Chiapas, Mexico, not only between Ejercito Zapatista de Liberaci6n Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation-EZLN) and Mexican government but also within indigenous communities, where political divisions have increased, thousands of people have been displaced, and over a hundred political assassinations have taken place. Paramilitary groups formed and operating within rural communities have terror…
Fronteras seguras, cuerpos vulnerables: Migración Y Género en La Frontera Sur
Fronteras seguras, cuerpos vulnerables: migración y género en la frontera sur
Jumping from A Moving Train: Risk, Migration and Rights at Nafta's Southern Border
July 2007. Hundreds of Central American migrants were camped along the railway tracks in Arriaga, Chiapas waiting to for the freight train to leave. Some were eating, perhaps their last food for days, others had bottles of water tied across their shoulders, some attempted to rest under the train cars to escape the hot sun. One young man brushed his teeth under the trees, using the water he carried in a recycled coca-cola bottle, to prepare himsel…
Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel - by Kelly, Patty
Nafta’s Highway of Death
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristine KovicChristine Kovic is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. She has conducted research in Mexico and the United States in the field of human rights for the past 20 years. Her current research addresses the intersection of human rights and immigration, with emphasis on Central American migrants crossing Mexico in the journey north and on the human rights …
Demanding to Be Seen and Heard: Latino Immigrant Organizing and the Defense of Human Rights in Houston
Latino migrants in Houston mobilize in myriad ways to defend their rights in the current context of increased enforcement and restrictive laws. Through an exploration of the mobilization strategies of Living Hope Wheelchair Association, an organization of Latino migrants with spinal cord injuries, this article considers the ways this organization reframes migration as an issue of human rights and social justice rather than one of criminalization.…
Migrant bodies as targets of security policies: Central Americans crossing Mexico's vertical border
Rights, Religion, and Violence at Mexico’s Borders
How do the faithful, poor and non-poor alike, live their everyday faith in the context of poverty, violence, and oppression? How have different sectors of church leadership understood and responded to poverty and violence? How have acts of the faithful pressured members of the church leadership to respond? The chapter explores violence in contemporary Latin America and the Church’s involvement in politics to resist such violence. It focuses on Me…
On Strike: Student Activism, Cuny, and Engaged Anthropology
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
Borders and Bridges: Migration, Anthropology, and Human Rights
Los sueños también viajan
June C. Nash (1927–2019)
Human rights
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)