Lynn Stephen

Biographic Data

ID5403575
NAMELynn Stephen
GIVEN NAMESLynn
FAMILY NAMEStephen
SIGNATURESTEPHEN L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oregon
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS93
TOTAL CITATIONS321
AUTHOR COUNT91
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • The Limits and Possibilities of Asylum: Lessons from Expert Witnessing and Volunteering at a Shelter

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American Perspectives2025References: 18

    Working as a researcher, expert witness, and refugee shelter worker quickly raises questions of whether such engagements are reinforcing institutions and structures of power that reproduce racism, economic and social inequality, militarization of our borders, and foreign and immigration policies of violence and exclusion. At the same time, engaged methods of research inside institutions such as U.S. immigration courts and refugee shelters offer a…

  • Settler colonialism in Latin American and Native studies: An interview with Shannon Speed

    Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2024

  • Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism by Maylei Blackwell (review)

    Lynn StephenARTICLENative American and Indigenous…2024

    Reviewed by: Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women's Transborder Activism by Maylei Blackwell Lynn Stephen (bio) Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women's Transborder Activism by Maylei Blackwell Duke University Press, 2023 THE DECOLONIZATION of Western knowledge is a tall order, but one that Maylei Blackwell successfully fills in Scales of Resistance. Centering conversations on how Indigenous women's activism brings Indigenous cosmovisions, bala…

  • Violence against Women and Girls, Discrimination, and Women’s Responses

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American Research Review2024

    This essay reviews the following works:Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology. By Florence E. Babb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. x + 304. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9781469653129

  • Introduction: Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States

    Lynn Stephen, Laura Velasco-OrtizARTICLEMexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos2023Cited by: 3References: 11

    According to Daniele `Dehouve (2015, 28), migrations created the roots of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples.Nevertheless, those lengthy pilgrimages in search of new lands turned into exoduses due to forced displacement and relocation in order to work forcibly under Spanish colonialism and its continuation through Criollos in independence.Centuries after those foundational and enforced displacements, well into the twenty-first century, Indigenous m…

  • Vulnerabilities and Collective Care: Indigenous Guatemalan and Mexican Farmworkers in Diaspora Confronting Covid-19 in the Western United States

    Lynn StephenARTICLEMexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos2023References: 3

    This article contributes to scholarly and policy conversations about diasporic Indigenous peoples from Mexico and Guatemala and forms of discrimination, through lack of attention to language and culture, that result in differential health and economic outcomes for Indigenous workers. In tandem, it emphasizes the ways that Indigenous farmworkers attempt to compensate for this discrimination by establishing forms of community care: emotional suppor…

  • Defying settler colonial logics: Transborder territories and Indigenous Mam Women seeking justice for gendered violence

    Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2022

    Indigenous Guatemalan refugees passing through Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. move in the space of a larger transborder territory created over the past six decades in response to U.S. foreign policy in Central America, historical patterns of labor movement and retreat from violence in the region. I frame this larger territory within the larger settler colonial politics of dispossession and elimination as carried out by the U.S. Mexican, and th…

  • Using Theory and Ethnography for Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gendered Violence

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2022References: 5

    This article focuses on how to use ethnography and theory to disrupt binaries between "state" and "non-state" actors and violence and "private" and "public" actors and violence. I also touch on expanded use of the political opinion basis for asylum in relation to women resisting violence and immigrant rights activists who are undocumented

  • Mesoamerican Indigenous Youth in the United States

    Lynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLEVisual Anthropology2022

  • Indigenous Women and Violence: Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice

    Lynn Stephen, Shannon SpeedBOOKIndigenous Women and Violence2021

  • From Legislation to Everyday Practices in Guatemala's Violence against Women Courts

    Open AccessErvin Beck, Lynn Stephens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies2021Cited by: 1References: 16

    We explore how formal mandates associated with Guatemala's 2008 'Law against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women' and with specialised violence against women (VAW) courts have encountered significant challenges due to state-imposed constraints. Drawing on courtroom observations, analyses of case files, and interviews, we find that while formal mandates incorporated feminist understandings of violence against women, which were often…

  • Fleeing rural violence: Mam women seeking gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S

    Lynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2019Cited by: 14References: 21

    I use the concept of gendered embodied structures of violence as the analytical framework for illustrating how in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, historical and contemporary structures and processes of violence which center the normalization of multiple forms of implied or actual physical and sexual violence against women (and often other men and children) continue to undermine efforts to strengthen women's rights and provide access to safety and…

  • Creating Preemptive Suspects: National Security, Border Defense, and Immigration Policy, 1980-Present

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American Perspectives2018Cited by: 7References: 21

    Analysis of U.S. immigration, border defense, and national security policies and their impact on individuals, families, and communities from Mexico and Central America who have migrated or fled to the United States as refugees since the mid-1980s suggests that through immigration programs such as Prevention through Deterrence, the United States has crafted a set of policies that creates "preemptive suspects"-categories of people from Central Amer…

  • Gendered Violence and Indigenous Mexican Asylum Seekers: Expert Witnessing as Ethnographic Engagement

    Lynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2018Cited by: 4

    The intertwined theoretical contributions of this article are: 1) how to interpret the lives of indigenous women asylum seekers in relation to structural vulnerability in western Oaxaca, Mexico, and in the asylum seeking process in the US, and 2) why expert witnessing should be considered as a form of ethnographic engagement. My discussion entails a detailed analysis of the cases of two female Triqui asylum seekers and their connections with loca…

  • Bearing Witness: Testimony in Latin American Anthropology and Related Fields

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLEThe Journal of Latin American and…2017Cited by: 7References: 29

    El testimonio oral es un vehículo importante para ampliar el análisis antropológico: se abre y amplía quien legítimamente habla y se escucha en una sociedad. El testimonio es también un componente crucial en la producción de saberes y en la construcción del archivo histórico. En este artículo se refleja en el testimonio en relación a puntos que se tejen juntos cómo el testimonio sirve para construir nuevos conocimientos y modelos analíticos: test…

  • Sandra Lynn Morgen (1950-2016)

    Open AccessLouise Lamphere, Jennifer Erickson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2017References: 3

  • Gendered Transborder Violence in the Expanded United States-Mexico Borderlands

    Lynn StephenARTICLEHuman Organization2016

    The domestic violence experienced by Mexican immigrant women needs to be understood within a larger context of structural violence, which includes criminal and state violence aggravated by their unprotected status in the United States as “immigrant aliens.” Transborder violence refers to forms of violence that cross multiple national, regional, class, ethnic, and state boundaries. This article uses one case of what lawyers call gender-based asylu…

  • Sandra Lynn Morgen

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn Stephen et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2016

  • Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico

    Lynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2015

    Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico is an in-depth examination of the ways in which the neoliberal Mexican state attempts to control women's reproductive practices and intervene in child-rearing and family relations through the cash transfer program known as Oportunidades (“Opportunities” in English). With more than a fifth of Mexico's population enrolled, Oportunidades uses access to monthly cash benefits for women and children to induce…

  • Mexican indigenous migrants in the United States: Labor, politics, culture, and transforming identities

    Lynn StephenARTICLEMigration Studies2014Cited by: 2

  • Transborder/Transnational Citizenships: Migrants and Anthropologists: A Response to Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American Perspectives2014References: 10

  • Indigenous Transborder Citizenship: Fiob Los Angeles and the Oaxaca Social Movement of 20061

    Lynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2014Cited by: 1References: 14

    Concepts of citizenship need to be reworked in the context of transborder migration, political participation, and identify formation processes. Here I use the concept of transborder citizenship as a frame for understanding multilayered citizenship among indigenous migrants and immigrants. My focus is on understanding how citizenship is conceptualized, acted upon, and practiced strategically in transborder indigenous organizations located in multi…

  • Women’s Rights and Sovereignty/Autonomy

    Open AccessShannon Speed, María Teresa Sierra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Legal Anthropology2013References: 3

    In recent years in both the United States and Latin America, indigenous peoples have taken increasing control over local justice, creating indigenous courts and asserting more autonomy in the administration of justice in their tribes, regions, or communities. New justice spaces, such as the Chickasaw District Courts in Oklahoma and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils in Chiapas, work to resolve conflict based largely on indigenous ‘customs and…

  • Testimony and Human Rights Violations in Oaxaca

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLELatin American Perspectives2011Cited by: 2References: 13

    Testimony can be an important tool for documenting human rights violations and achieving political and legal credibility when formal institutions for the defense of human rights are incapable of guaranteeing rights and providing impartial justice. The testifier is an active social agent engaged in a personal and collective performative act that can potentially broaden the meaning of truth to advance alternative and contested understandings of his…

  • Karen Brodkin and the Study of Social Movements: Lessons for the Social Movement of Oaxaca, Mexico

    Open AccessLynn Stephens, Lynn StephenARTICLECritique of Anthropology2010References: 20

    ■ This article highlights the intellectual contributions of Karen Brodkin in the analysis of gender and social movements through drawing on some of her key concepts and ideas, joining them with others, and applying them to the specific analysis of the pluralistic social movement in Oaxaca which emerged in 2006 and continues to this day. The article's theoretical inquiry centers on two primary questions that are followed by specific concepts explo…