Lisa M Martinez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa M Martinez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Martinez |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍNEZ L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2340-7842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Centering the Chicana/o/x community in methodology and pedagogy for a HWCU general education curriculum
During the 2023-2025 academic years, 14 faculty members at a midsized private R1 university located in the Rocky Mountain West collaborated to create and teach liberal arts and social sciences courses introducing students to El Movimiento, the U.S. Chicano Movement that began in the 1960s and 1970s that significantly shaped the economic, political, and social historical context of our university’s area. Employing a case study methodology, this ar…
Listening in the margins: Methodological and ethical considerations for studying undocumented youth and young adults
This article builds on scholarship in the social sciences, ethnic and feminist studies, and education to examine methodological innovations and ethical considerations for conducting research with immigrant populations. Specifically, it focuses on those who received protections through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program implemented by President Barack Obama providing young immigrants relief from deportation, work permi…
Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021
Extensive scholarship traces the development and impacts of the U.S. immigration and deportation system on Latino immigrants and U.S. born Latinos, alike. However, relatively little quantitative research has investigated the worries that Latinos express about deportation, explored the temporal dynamics in such concerns, or identified which factors predict shifts in deportation-related concerns over time. Using two waves of data for a national sam…
Immigration Threat Amplifiers and Whites’ Immigration Attitudes in the Age of Trump
The US public’s immigration attitudes have become more favourable in recent years, yet the Trump administration (2017-2021) was the most restrictionist on immigration of any modern US presidency. What key sociopolitical factors were associated with holding more exclusionary immigration attitudes and policy preferences among US whites, the ethnoracial group most likely to support Trump, at the beginning of his administration? Analyses of two waves…
Migrant Illegality across Uneven Legal Geographies: Introduction to the Special Issue of Law & Policy
Dreams Deterred: The Collateral Consequences of Localized Immigration Policies on Undocumented Latinos in Colorado
Recent years have seen a broadening of the scope of immigration enforcement. As a result, immigrants free of criminal convictions, once considered low priorities for enforcement, are increasingly subject to arrest, detention, and removal. At the same time, federal immigration authorities have sought the cooperation of states and localities in the enforcement of immigration laws. While there has been growing scholarly attention paid to the ways in…
The bright lights: The development of oppositional consciousness among Dacamented Latino youth
This study asks the question, “How do diverse social spaces support or constrain the development of oppositional consciousness among DACAmented Latina/o youth?” Our analysis is based on 40 in-depth interviews with Latina/o youth and young adults living in Colorado who received a two-year reprieve from deportation and work authorization through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program enacted in 2012. The findings indicate the dev…
Is Love Color-blind? Racial Blind Spots and Latinas' Romantic Relationships
The racial stratification literature is rife with examples of how color-blindness has become a dominant ideology among Whites to deny the continuing significance of race at work, school, and in everyday life. Less understood are the racial ideologies deployed by people of color. Drawing on 20 in-depth interviews, we examine how college-educated Latinas acknowledge or deny the significance of race and racial hierarchies in decisions about whom to …
How Do Political Contexts Shape Undocumented Youth Movements? Evidence From Three Immigrant Destinations
Drawing on research spanning ten years in three immigrant destinations—Los Angeles, Denver, and Atlanta—we address the question, “How do political contexts shape undocumented youth movements?” To do so, we bring into dialogue social movements and immigration scholarship by providing a framework for understanding undocumented youth activism. Building on political opportunity theory in social movements and segmented assimilation theory in migration…
Constrained desires: The romantic partner preferences of college-educated Latinas
Sowing the Semillas of Critical Multicultural Citizenship for Latina/o Undocumented Youth: Spaces in School and out of School
The purpose of this study is to address how spaces in school and out of school support or constrain undocumented Latina/o youths' development as critical multicultural citizens. We draw on data from a multi-phase, qualitative study to present findings indicating that the youths persevered through academic and civic engagement. Ultimately, the students drew from their liminal status-the space between legal and "illegal"-to become stewards of a cau…
Dreams Deferred: The Impact of Legal Reforms on Undocumented Latino Youth
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was enacted in August 2012, allowing undocumented youth who meet eligibility criteria to live and work in the United States for a period of 2 years. In April 2013, the Governor of Colorado signed the Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow bill granting undocumented students reduced tuition in the state's public universities. In the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, this article address…
Engaging the Reluctant? Service Learning, Interpersonal Contact, and Attitudes toward Homeless Individuals
This article examines the extent to which service-learning courses affect students' attitudes and opinions. Elsewhere, we used a pre/postsurvey field experiment to demonstrate that volunteering with a homeless person tends to erode the stereotypes held by the domiciled—a confirmation of the venerable contact hypothesis. Here we use the same research design to assess whether students in service-learning courses exhibit a similar type of opinion ch…
Politicizing the family: How grassroots organizations mobilize Latinos for political action in Colorado
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Self-rated Health: The Mediating Role of Social Trust
This study examines racial/ethnic disparities in self-rated health and their underlying social bases. Using a series of nested models and data on 24,767 individuals from the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (Roper Center 2006), we assess initial differences among blacks, Latinos, and Asians in terms of their likelihood of reporting diminished health relative to whites. Subsequent models disaggregate Latino and Asian respondents by c…
Humanizing the homeless: Does contact erode stereotypes
The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Protest Among Latinos
This study builds upon and extends prior literature on political participation by exami-ning individual-level and city-level determinants of Latinos' protest participation in the U. S. Multilevel models were used on a sample of 2,810 Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent. Individual factors such as age, education, income, religiosity, and organizational involvement are found to impact participation in expected directions. Results al…
Flowers From the Same Soil: Latino Solidarity in the Wake of the 2006 Immigrant Mobilizations
This article examines the effects of collective action on the development of Latino ethnic solidarity among immigrant, naturalized, and U.S.-born Latinos. The article reveals how ethnic solidarity came about from the perspective and with the help of grassroots organizers who coordinated the 2006 immigrant rights mobilizations. Through 55 interviews with grassroots organizers from immigrant and Latino rights groups, elected officials, and union an…
Yes We Can: Latino Participation in Unconventional Politics
This paper considers participation in unconventional politics and its determinants. In particular, analyses presented below focus on differences in low-risk protest activity among non-Latinos and Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin. Central to this analysis is an examination of individual and network determinants of unconventional participation as well as determinants unique to immigrant populations: citizenship and generation. Ifin…
Yes We Can: Latino Participation in Unconventional Politics
This paper considers participation in unconventional politics and its determinants. In particular, analyses presented below focus on differences in low-risk protest activity among non-Latinos and Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin. Central to this analysis is an examination of individual and network determinants of unconventional participation as well as determinants unique to immigrant populations: citizenship and generation. Ifin…
How Do Political Contexts Shape Undocumented Youth Movements? Evidence From Three Immigrant Destinations
Drawing on research spanning ten years in three immigrant destinations—Los Angeles, Denver, and Atlanta—we address the question, “How do political contexts shape undocumented youth movements?” To do so, we bring into dialogue social movements and immigration scholarship by providing a framework for understanding undocumented youth activism. Building on political opportunity theory in social movements and segmented assimilation theory in migration…
Dreams Deferred: The Impact of Legal Reforms on Undocumented Latino Youth
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was enacted in August 2012, allowing undocumented youth who meet eligibility criteria to live and work in the United States for a period of 2 years. In April 2013, the Governor of Colorado signed the Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow bill granting undocumented students reduced tuition in the state's public universities. In the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, this article address…
The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Protest Among Latinos
This study builds upon and extends prior literature on political participation by exami-ning individual-level and city-level determinants of Latinos' protest participation in the U. S. Multilevel models were used on a sample of 2,810 Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent. Individual factors such as age, education, income, religiosity, and organizational involvement are found to impact participation in expected directions. Results al…
Humanizing the homeless: Does contact erode stereotypes
Flowers From the Same Soil: Latino Solidarity in the Wake of the 2006 Immigrant Mobilizations
This article examines the effects of collective action on the development of Latino ethnic solidarity among immigrant, naturalized, and U.S.-born Latinos. The article reveals how ethnic solidarity came about from the perspective and with the help of grassroots organizers who coordinated the 2006 immigrant rights mobilizations. Through 55 interviews with grassroots organizers from immigrant and Latino rights groups, elected officials, and union an…
The bright lights: The development of oppositional consciousness among Dacamented Latino youth
This study asks the question, “How do diverse social spaces support or constrain the development of oppositional consciousness among DACAmented Latina/o youth?” Our analysis is based on 40 in-depth interviews with Latina/o youth and young adults living in Colorado who received a two-year reprieve from deportation and work authorization through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program enacted in 2012. The findings indicate the dev…
Politicizing the family: How grassroots organizations mobilize Latinos for political action in Colorado
Constrained desires: The romantic partner preferences of college-educated Latinas
Dreams Deterred: The Collateral Consequences of Localized Immigration Policies on Undocumented Latinos in Colorado
Recent years have seen a broadening of the scope of immigration enforcement. As a result, immigrants free of criminal convictions, once considered low priorities for enforcement, are increasingly subject to arrest, detention, and removal. At the same time, federal immigration authorities have sought the cooperation of states and localities in the enforcement of immigration laws. While there has been growing scholarly attention paid to the ways in…
Is Love Color-blind? Racial Blind Spots and Latinas' Romantic Relationships
The racial stratification literature is rife with examples of how color-blindness has become a dominant ideology among Whites to deny the continuing significance of race at work, school, and in everyday life. Less understood are the racial ideologies deployed by people of color. Drawing on 20 in-depth interviews, we examine how college-educated Latinas acknowledge or deny the significance of race and racial hierarchies in decisions about whom to …
Sowing the Semillas of Critical Multicultural Citizenship for Latina/o Undocumented Youth: Spaces in School and out of School
The purpose of this study is to address how spaces in school and out of school support or constrain undocumented Latina/o youths' development as critical multicultural citizens. We draw on data from a multi-phase, qualitative study to present findings indicating that the youths persevered through academic and civic engagement. Ultimately, the students drew from their liminal status-the space between legal and "illegal"-to become stewards of a cau…
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Self-rated Health: The Mediating Role of Social Trust
This study examines racial/ethnic disparities in self-rated health and their underlying social bases. Using a series of nested models and data on 24,767 individuals from the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (Roper Center 2006), we assess initial differences among blacks, Latinos, and Asians in terms of their likelihood of reporting diminished health relative to whites. Subsequent models disaggregate Latino and Asian respondents by c…
Migrant Illegality across Uneven Legal Geographies: Introduction to the Special Issue of Law & Policy
Engaging the Reluctant? Service Learning, Interpersonal Contact, and Attitudes toward Homeless Individuals
This article examines the extent to which service-learning courses affect students' attitudes and opinions. Elsewhere, we used a pre/postsurvey field experiment to demonstrate that volunteering with a homeless person tends to erode the stereotypes held by the domiciled—a confirmation of the venerable contact hypothesis. Here we use the same research design to assess whether students in service-learning courses exhibit a similar type of opinion ch…
Yes We Can: Latino Participation in Unconventional Politics
This paper considers participation in unconventional politics and its determinants. In particular, analyses presented below focus on differences in low-risk protest activity among non-Latinos and Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin. Central to this analysis is an examination of individual and network determinants of unconventional participation as well as determinants unique to immigrant populations: citizenship and generation. Ifin…
The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Protest Among Latinos
This study builds upon and extends prior literature on political participation by exami-ning individual-level and city-level determinants of Latinos' protest participation in the U. S. Multilevel models were used on a sample of 2,810 Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent. Individual factors such as age, education, income, religiosity, and organizational involvement are found to impact participation in expected directions. Results al…
Flowers From the Same Soil: Latino Solidarity in the Wake of the 2006 Immigrant Mobilizations
This article examines the effects of collective action on the development of Latino ethnic solidarity among immigrant, naturalized, and U.S.-born Latinos. The article reveals how ethnic solidarity came about from the perspective and with the help of grassroots organizers who coordinated the 2006 immigrant rights mobilizations. Through 55 interviews with grassroots organizers from immigrant and Latino rights groups, elected officials, and union an…
Humanizing the homeless: Does contact erode stereotypes
Politicizing the family: How grassroots organizations mobilize Latinos for political action in Colorado
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Self-rated Health: The Mediating Role of Social Trust
This study examines racial/ethnic disparities in self-rated health and their underlying social bases. Using a series of nested models and data on 24,767 individuals from the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (Roper Center 2006), we assess initial differences among blacks, Latinos, and Asians in terms of their likelihood of reporting diminished health relative to whites. Subsequent models disaggregate Latino and Asian respondents by c…
Engaging the Reluctant? Service Learning, Interpersonal Contact, and Attitudes toward Homeless Individuals
This article examines the extent to which service-learning courses affect students' attitudes and opinions. Elsewhere, we used a pre/postsurvey field experiment to demonstrate that volunteering with a homeless person tends to erode the stereotypes held by the domiciled—a confirmation of the venerable contact hypothesis. Here we use the same research design to assess whether students in service-learning courses exhibit a similar type of opinion ch…
Dreams Deferred: The Impact of Legal Reforms on Undocumented Latino Youth
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was enacted in August 2012, allowing undocumented youth who meet eligibility criteria to live and work in the United States for a period of 2 years. In April 2013, the Governor of Colorado signed the Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow bill granting undocumented students reduced tuition in the state's public universities. In the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, this article address…
Constrained desires: The romantic partner preferences of college-educated Latinas
Sowing the Semillas of Critical Multicultural Citizenship for Latina/o Undocumented Youth: Spaces in School and out of School
The purpose of this study is to address how spaces in school and out of school support or constrain undocumented Latina/o youths' development as critical multicultural citizens. We draw on data from a multi-phase, qualitative study to present findings indicating that the youths persevered through academic and civic engagement. Ultimately, the students drew from their liminal status-the space between legal and "illegal"-to become stewards of a cau…
How Do Political Contexts Shape Undocumented Youth Movements? Evidence From Three Immigrant Destinations
Drawing on research spanning ten years in three immigrant destinations—Los Angeles, Denver, and Atlanta—we address the question, “How do political contexts shape undocumented youth movements?” To do so, we bring into dialogue social movements and immigration scholarship by providing a framework for understanding undocumented youth activism. Building on political opportunity theory in social movements and segmented assimilation theory in migration…
The bright lights: The development of oppositional consciousness among Dacamented Latino youth
This study asks the question, “How do diverse social spaces support or constrain the development of oppositional consciousness among DACAmented Latina/o youth?” Our analysis is based on 40 in-depth interviews with Latina/o youth and young adults living in Colorado who received a two-year reprieve from deportation and work authorization through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program enacted in 2012. The findings indicate the dev…
Is Love Color-blind? Racial Blind Spots and Latinas' Romantic Relationships
The racial stratification literature is rife with examples of how color-blindness has become a dominant ideology among Whites to deny the continuing significance of race at work, school, and in everyday life. Less understood are the racial ideologies deployed by people of color. Drawing on 20 in-depth interviews, we examine how college-educated Latinas acknowledge or deny the significance of race and racial hierarchies in decisions about whom to …
Migrant Illegality across Uneven Legal Geographies: Introduction to the Special Issue of Law & Policy
Dreams Deterred: The Collateral Consequences of Localized Immigration Policies on Undocumented Latinos in Colorado
Recent years have seen a broadening of the scope of immigration enforcement. As a result, immigrants free of criminal convictions, once considered low priorities for enforcement, are increasingly subject to arrest, detention, and removal. At the same time, federal immigration authorities have sought the cooperation of states and localities in the enforcement of immigration laws. While there has been growing scholarly attention paid to the ways in…
Immigration Threat Amplifiers and Whites’ Immigration Attitudes in the Age of Trump
The US public’s immigration attitudes have become more favourable in recent years, yet the Trump administration (2017-2021) was the most restrictionist on immigration of any modern US presidency. What key sociopolitical factors were associated with holding more exclusionary immigration attitudes and policy preferences among US whites, the ethnoracial group most likely to support Trump, at the beginning of his administration? Analyses of two waves…
Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021
Extensive scholarship traces the development and impacts of the U.S. immigration and deportation system on Latino immigrants and U.S. born Latinos, alike. However, relatively little quantitative research has investigated the worries that Latinos express about deportation, explored the temporal dynamics in such concerns, or identified which factors predict shifts in deportation-related concerns over time. Using two waves of data for a national sam…
Centering the Chicana/o/x community in methodology and pedagogy for a HWCU general education curriculum
During the 2023-2025 academic years, 14 faculty members at a midsized private R1 university located in the Rocky Mountain West collaborated to create and teach liberal arts and social sciences courses introducing students to El Movimiento, the U.S. Chicano Movement that began in the 1960s and 1970s that significantly shaped the economic, political, and social historical context of our university’s area. Employing a case study methodology, this ar…
Listening in the margins: Methodological and ethical considerations for studying undocumented youth and young adults
This article builds on scholarship in the social sciences, ethnic and feminist studies, and education to examine methodological innovations and ethical considerations for conducting research with immigrant populations. Specifically, it focuses on those who received protections through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program implemented by President Barack Obama providing young immigrants relief from deportation, work permi…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works)