Michelle Tellez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Tellez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Tellez |
| SIGNATURE | TELLEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Una mujer embarazada necesita el sol: Pregnant migrant women, carceral capitalism, and immigration enforcement at the US–Mexico border
The US immigration detention and deportation system is a vector for state violence against criminalized, racialized populations, in service to racial capitalism. The immigration policies of both Democrats and Republicans are designed to extract profit from migrants, disciplining them as a deportable underclass of workers while minimizing and externalizing the costs of social reproduction. The detention of pregnant women presents the immigration e…
Memoria y Duelo en la Frontera
The Impact of the 100-mile Border Enforcement Zone on Mexican Americans in Arizona
Based on qualitative interview data with Mexican American and White participants, this article examines the impact of immigration-related policies on the U.S.-born adult children of Mexican immigrants. Building on Dunn's concept of a low-intensity conflict zone, we argue that the militarization of the border carries consequences for Mexican American border residents. Becoming collateral subjects to a system of racialized legal violence, they expe…
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect
Sometimes It's Necessary to Break a Few Rules
In October of 2020, the University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences hosted a lecture series called Womanpower. The final lecture was an interview between Michelle Téllez and Yalitza Aparicio-an Indigenous woman, actress, and activist. This interview transcript (originally conducted in Spanish) discusses Aparicio's childhood, her experiences with discrimination, her role in the groundbreaking film Roma, and her activism on be…
The Chicana Motherwork Anthology
Border crossings and sexual conquest in the age of neoliberalism in the Sonoran Desert
This article examines the liminal space of the desert borderlands as a scene of routinized sexualized and gendered violence against migrant women border crossers. We explore the human consequences of a philosophy of attrition that is the cornerstone of the US immigration system. Using border sexual conquest and the coloniality of power as lenses, we examine how global neoliberalism represents a form of contemporary conquest that normalizes sexual…
Violence and Vulnerability of Female Migrants in Drop Houses in Arizona: The Predictable Outcome of a Chain Reaction of Violence
This qualitative research study examines the experiences of immigrant women crossing the U.S./Mexico border and the proliferation of "drop houses" in Arizona as a new phenomenon, one that is often marked by kidnappings and sexual assault. Little research has been published on the violence women face on their journey, and the drop houses have almost completely escaped scholarly analysis. We argue that the drop houses must be seen as a consequence …
A Woman's Right to Organize
Interview| April 01 2013 A Woman’s Right to Organize: An Interview with Members of the Colectiva Feminista Binacional Michelle Téllez Michelle Téllez Michelle Téllez teaches courses in women’s studies and social justice/human rights in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. Dr. Téllez’s writing and research projects seek to uncover the stories of transnational community formation along the US-Mexico bord…
Immigration and the state of labor: Building a movement in the valley of the sun
Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border
Using 10 women's narratives, participant observation, archival research, and a focus group, this article analyzes women's social activism in a settler community in northern Mexico near the border. I argue that women's activism and emerging political consciousness provides a lens through which women critique structural violence and intimate partner violence and that ultimately provides new women-centered subjectivities. This article contributes to…
The Impact of the 100-mile Border Enforcement Zone on Mexican Americans in Arizona
Based on qualitative interview data with Mexican American and White participants, this article examines the impact of immigration-related policies on the U.S.-born adult children of Mexican immigrants. Building on Dunn's concept of a low-intensity conflict zone, we argue that the militarization of the border carries consequences for Mexican American border residents. Becoming collateral subjects to a system of racialized legal violence, they expe…
Violence and Vulnerability of Female Migrants in Drop Houses in Arizona: The Predictable Outcome of a Chain Reaction of Violence
This qualitative research study examines the experiences of immigrant women crossing the U.S./Mexico border and the proliferation of "drop houses" in Arizona as a new phenomenon, one that is often marked by kidnappings and sexual assault. Little research has been published on the violence women face on their journey, and the drop houses have almost completely escaped scholarly analysis. We argue that the drop houses must be seen as a consequence …
Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border
Using 10 women's narratives, participant observation, archival research, and a focus group, this article analyzes women's social activism in a settler community in northern Mexico near the border. I argue that women's activism and emerging political consciousness provides a lens through which women critique structural violence and intimate partner violence and that ultimately provides new women-centered subjectivities. This article contributes to…
Border crossings and sexual conquest in the age of neoliberalism in the Sonoran Desert
This article examines the liminal space of the desert borderlands as a scene of routinized sexualized and gendered violence against migrant women border crossers. We explore the human consequences of a philosophy of attrition that is the cornerstone of the US immigration system. Using border sexual conquest and the coloniality of power as lenses, we examine how global neoliberalism represents a form of contemporary conquest that normalizes sexual…
Sometimes It's Necessary to Break a Few Rules
In October of 2020, the University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences hosted a lecture series called Womanpower. The final lecture was an interview between Michelle Téllez and Yalitza Aparicio-an Indigenous woman, actress, and activist. This interview transcript (originally conducted in Spanish) discusses Aparicio's childhood, her experiences with discrimination, her role in the groundbreaking film Roma, and her activism on be…
Immigration and the state of labor: Building a movement in the valley of the sun
Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border
Using 10 women's narratives, participant observation, archival research, and a focus group, this article analyzes women's social activism in a settler community in northern Mexico near the border. I argue that women's activism and emerging political consciousness provides a lens through which women critique structural violence and intimate partner violence and that ultimately provides new women-centered subjectivities. This article contributes to…
Immigration and the state of labor: Building a movement in the valley of the sun
A Woman's Right to Organize
Interview| April 01 2013 A Woman’s Right to Organize: An Interview with Members of the Colectiva Feminista Binacional Michelle Téllez Michelle Téllez Michelle Téllez teaches courses in women’s studies and social justice/human rights in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. Dr. Téllez’s writing and research projects seek to uncover the stories of transnational community formation along the US-Mexico bord…
Violence and Vulnerability of Female Migrants in Drop Houses in Arizona: The Predictable Outcome of a Chain Reaction of Violence
This qualitative research study examines the experiences of immigrant women crossing the U.S./Mexico border and the proliferation of "drop houses" in Arizona as a new phenomenon, one that is often marked by kidnappings and sexual assault. Little research has been published on the violence women face on their journey, and the drop houses have almost completely escaped scholarly analysis. We argue that the drop houses must be seen as a consequence …
Border crossings and sexual conquest in the age of neoliberalism in the Sonoran Desert
This article examines the liminal space of the desert borderlands as a scene of routinized sexualized and gendered violence against migrant women border crossers. We explore the human consequences of a philosophy of attrition that is the cornerstone of the US immigration system. Using border sexual conquest and the coloniality of power as lenses, we examine how global neoliberalism represents a form of contemporary conquest that normalizes sexual…
The Chicana Motherwork Anthology
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect
Sometimes It's Necessary to Break a Few Rules
In October of 2020, the University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences hosted a lecture series called Womanpower. The final lecture was an interview between Michelle Téllez and Yalitza Aparicio-an Indigenous woman, actress, and activist. This interview transcript (originally conducted in Spanish) discusses Aparicio's childhood, her experiences with discrimination, her role in the groundbreaking film Roma, and her activism on be…
The Impact of the 100-mile Border Enforcement Zone on Mexican Americans in Arizona
Based on qualitative interview data with Mexican American and White participants, this article examines the impact of immigration-related policies on the U.S.-born adult children of Mexican immigrants. Building on Dunn's concept of a low-intensity conflict zone, we argue that the militarization of the border carries consequences for Mexican American border residents. Becoming collateral subjects to a system of racialized legal violence, they expe…
Una mujer embarazada necesita el sol: Pregnant migrant women, carceral capitalism, and immigration enforcement at the US–Mexico border
The US immigration detention and deportation system is a vector for state violence against criminalized, racialized populations, in service to racial capitalism. The immigration policies of both Democrats and Republicans are designed to extract profit from migrants, disciplining them as a deportable underclass of workers while minimizing and externalizing the costs of social reproduction. The detention of pregnant women presents the immigration e…
Memoria y Duelo en la Frontera
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (3 works) · Law (3 works)