Jessica Ordaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3889282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Ordaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Ordaz |
| SIGNATURE | ORDAZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4717-9039 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Solidarity sin Fronteras
Plant-Based Aztlán: Intersectional Veganism Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
In “Plant Based Aztlán: Intersectional Veganism Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” the author utilizes a transnational lens to center the oral histories she conducted with eight intersectional vegans across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The stories she highlights interrogate how they reimagine their relationships to the more-than-human world, food, land, and animals. She suggests that they are centering ancestral and Indigenous foodways, which h…
The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration
I read The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration a few days after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the forty-seventh president of the United States. Books like this one are needed more than ever as many of us brace for the uncertain yet promised inequities that lay ahead, especially regarding the future of migrant livelihoods and expansion of the carceral apparatus.While substantial scholarship on the history of migrant inca…
Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump's Reign of Terror
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
In her latest book, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, distinguished professor, scholar, and MacArthur Fellow Natalia Molina centers place-making and relational space in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. In a story about her family, Molina beautifully narrates a history without archives and featuring people who have been “underdocumented,” such as Natalia Barraza and the many people that worked and at…
Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America
Journal Article Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America Get access Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America. Ed. Holly M Karibo and George T Díaz. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. xiv, 288 pp. $45.00.) Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
La Lucha Obrera No la Para la Frontera (There Are No Borders in the Workers’ Struggle)
The 1970s was a time of growing government repression, incarceration, and subsequent radical activism across the United States and Mexico. This is reflected in the migration, incarceration, and organizing efforts of José Jacques Medina, a Mexican activist who fled to the United States to escape political persecution after his involvement in the 1968 student movement in Mexico City. After the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Immigrati…
Aids Knows No Borders
This article explores the intersection between migrant detention and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. "AIDS Knows No Borders" centers histories of exclusion, detention, and deportation. The first part discusses immigration policy that made AIDS screening mandatory as part of the asylum process and the activism that resulted in protest of these measures. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/Los Angeles (ACT UP/LA), a grassroots direct-action org…
Walling in and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us? Edited Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuire
Walling in and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us? is a multidisciplinary edited volume that explores the various functions of ideological walls across space and time. Chapter contributors argue that the purpose of walls includes attempts to provide security, mark territory, regulate movement, block potential dangers, curtail social belonging, create divisions and differences, and the unintended consequences of engendering…
Migrant Detention Archives
The impact of incarceration on the migrants in the federal immigration facility in El Centro, California, which operated from 1945 to 2014, is obscured by limited-access government records that emphasize the efficiency of the non-punitive immigration holding center. Direct observation revealed a restrictive environment, an authoritarian regime, and dehumanizing protocols. These discrepancies led to a search for information on the emotional impact…
Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance
Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California
Research Article| January 01 2019 Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ordaz obtained her PhD in US History, with a minor field in Latin American History, from the University of California Davis. Her research interests inc…
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
In her latest book, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, distinguished professor, scholar, and MacArthur Fellow Natalia Molina centers place-making and relational space in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. In a story about her family, Molina beautifully narrates a history without archives and featuring people who have been “underdocumented,” such as Natalia Barraza and the many people that worked and at…
Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California
Research Article| January 01 2019 Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ordaz obtained her PhD in US History, with a minor field in Latin American History, from the University of California Davis. Her research interests inc…
Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California
Research Article| January 01 2019 Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ordaz obtained her PhD in US History, with a minor field in Latin American History, from the University of California Davis. Her research interests inc…
Migrant Detention Archives
The impact of incarceration on the migrants in the federal immigration facility in El Centro, California, which operated from 1945 to 2014, is obscured by limited-access government records that emphasize the efficiency of the non-punitive immigration holding center. Direct observation revealed a restrictive environment, an authoritarian regime, and dehumanizing protocols. These discrepancies led to a search for information on the emotional impact…
Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance
La Lucha Obrera No la Para la Frontera (There Are No Borders in the Workers’ Struggle)
The 1970s was a time of growing government repression, incarceration, and subsequent radical activism across the United States and Mexico. This is reflected in the migration, incarceration, and organizing efforts of José Jacques Medina, a Mexican activist who fled to the United States to escape political persecution after his involvement in the 1968 student movement in Mexico City. After the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Immigrati…
Aids Knows No Borders
This article explores the intersection between migrant detention and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. "AIDS Knows No Borders" centers histories of exclusion, detention, and deportation. The first part discusses immigration policy that made AIDS screening mandatory as part of the asylum process and the activism that resulted in protest of these measures. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/Los Angeles (ACT UP/LA), a grassroots direct-action org…
Walling in and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us? Edited Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuire
Walling in and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us? is a multidisciplinary edited volume that explores the various functions of ideological walls across space and time. Chapter contributors argue that the purpose of walls includes attempts to provide security, mark territory, regulate movement, block potential dangers, curtail social belonging, create divisions and differences, and the unintended consequences of engendering…
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
In her latest book, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, distinguished professor, scholar, and MacArthur Fellow Natalia Molina centers place-making and relational space in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. In a story about her family, Molina beautifully narrates a history without archives and featuring people who have been “underdocumented,” such as Natalia Barraza and the many people that worked and at…
Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America
Journal Article Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America Get access Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America. Ed. Holly M Karibo and George T Díaz. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. xiv, 288 pp. $45.00.) Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump's Reign of Terror
Introduction: Solidarity sin Fronteras
Plant-Based Aztlán: Intersectional Veganism Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
In “Plant Based Aztlán: Intersectional Veganism Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” the author utilizes a transnational lens to center the oral histories she conducted with eight intersectional vegans across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The stories she highlights interrogate how they reimagine their relationships to the more-than-human world, food, land, and animals. She suggests that they are centering ancestral and Indigenous foodways, which h…
The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration
I read The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration a few days after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the forty-seventh president of the United States. Books like this one are needed more than ever as many of us brace for the uncertain yet promised inequities that lay ahead, especially regarding the future of migrant livelihoods and expansion of the carceral apparatus.While substantial scholarship on the history of migrant inca…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Deportation (3 works)