Melissa Hampton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Hampton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Hampton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMPTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“A Tent City is Not a Place for a Family”: Mariel Cuban Women and Gendered Disorder at Regional Resettlement Facilities
According to sociologist B.E. Aguirre, at the height of the Mariel refugee crisis, most Americans believed that the newly arrived Cubans were “young, black, unmarried and that they were shiftless and dangerous people: prostitutes, homosexuals, mental defectives, and thugs.” While this stereotype would stigmatize the larger group of Mariel Cubans and serve as the legal foundation for serve as the legal foundation for EXCLUDING OR EVEN IMPRISONING …
Constructing the Deviant Woman: Gendered Stigma of the 1980 Cuban Mariel Migration
This article argues that the 1980 Cuban Mariel migration marked a turning point in American perceptions and media representations of female Cuban immigrants, and Cuban exiles in the United States more generally. By examining how sexualized representations of Mariel women coincided with a more general stigmatization of Mariel migrants, I contend that single Cuban women arriving in the boatlift underwent a process of racialization, in which they be…
Constructing the Deviant Woman: Gendered Stigma of the 1980 Cuban Mariel Migration
This article argues that the 1980 Cuban Mariel migration marked a turning point in American perceptions and media representations of female Cuban immigrants, and Cuban exiles in the United States more generally. By examining how sexualized representations of Mariel women coincided with a more general stigmatization of Mariel migrants, I contend that single Cuban women arriving in the boatlift underwent a process of racialization, in which they be…
Constructing the Deviant Woman: Gendered Stigma of the 1980 Cuban Mariel Migration
This article argues that the 1980 Cuban Mariel migration marked a turning point in American perceptions and media representations of female Cuban immigrants, and Cuban exiles in the United States more generally. By examining how sexualized representations of Mariel women coincided with a more general stigmatization of Mariel migrants, I contend that single Cuban women arriving in the boatlift underwent a process of racialization, in which they be…
“A Tent City is Not a Place for a Family”: Mariel Cuban Women and Gendered Disorder at Regional Resettlement Facilities
According to sociologist B.E. Aguirre, at the height of the Mariel refugee crisis, most Americans believed that the newly arrived Cubans were “young, black, unmarried and that they were shiftless and dangerous people: prostitutes, homosexuals, mental defectives, and thugs.” While this stereotype would stigmatize the larger group of Mariel Cubans and serve as the legal foundation for serve as the legal foundation for EXCLUDING OR EVEN IMPRISONING …
Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Racialization (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 works) · Immigration (1 works) · Law (1 works)