Angela Stuesse
Biographic Data
| ID | 637419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Stuesse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuesse |
| SIGNATURE | STUESSE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1913-0237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“This wound is a world: ” Trauma and decolonial feminist praxis
As editors of this special issue of Feminist Anthropology , we consider the possibilities and challenges of ethnographic scholarship about and with trauma. Taking seriously the poet Billy‐Ray Belcourt's proposal that the wound is a world, this article builds on feminist and decolonial thinkers from within and beyond anthropology, alongside the contributors to this special issue, to make two arguments. First, we propose that the wound or woundedne…
Feeling our way through: On witnessing, writing, and improvisational care
Following a sequence of traumatic events involving a home raid, immigrant detention, and family separation, over fifteen years after the co‐authors first met our lives became entwined in ways we never could have predicted. In the decade since, we have been collaborating to narrate that experience and, in so doing, interweave Vargas's life story with an analysis of how U.S. immigration policy since 9/11 has indelibly shaped the lives of undocument…
Labor shortages and the unmaking of class in Mississippi's poultry plants
Challenges to addressing mental health repercussions of large-scale immigration worksite raids in the rural United States
Immigration worksite raids-in which dozens to hundreds of individuals are detained-often target food processing plants or other warehouse-based operations, primary sources of employment for immigrants in rural communities. Drawing on interviews with 77 adults who provided support following six worksite raids, we describe three challenges to identifying resultant mental health impacts: 1) amid poverty and family disappearance, mental health is not…
Chapter 8 Anthropology for Whom? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship
What’s “Justice and Dignity” Got to Do with It: Migrant Vulnerability, Corporate Complicity, and the State
In 2001, Tyson Foods, one of the world’s leading chicken processors, was indicted on charges that it recruited undocumented migrants to work in its plants across the rural United States. In the following years, Tyson engaged in an operation to purge the largest chicken plant in the country of hundreds of unionized immigrant workers, relying heavily on the Social Security Administration’s controversial “No-Match” program to shape its termination p…
The Criminalization of Undocumented Work, Pandemic Suffering, and the Meat We Eat: A Reflection on “What’s ‘Justice and Dignity’ Got to Do with It?” (Stuesse 2010)
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Angela Stuesse; The Criminalization of Undocumented Work, Pandemic Suffering, and the Meat We Eat: A Reflection on "What's 'Justice and Dignity' Got to Do with It?" (Stuesse 2010). Human Organization 1 June 2021; 80 (2): 102–104. doi: https://doi.org/10…
Undocumented Activism and Minor Politics: Inside the Cramped Political Spaces of Deportation Defense Campaigns
Undocumented activism is on the rise. In response to the expansion of immigrant policing, detention, and deportation, immigrant rights organizers have increasingly deployed a longstanding approach to anti‐deportation activism called “deportation defense campaigns” (DDCs). DDCs seek to disrupt the deportation regime by preventing or delaying individual deportations and providing immigrants a path to temporary or permanent legalization on a case‐by…
Anthropology for Whom: Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship
When They're Done with You: Legal Violence and Structural Vulnerability among Injured Immigrant Poultry Workers
When they're done with you," an impassioned union representative once cautioned me, "they'll crumple you up like a piece of paper, throw you out, and reach back for your kids." Industrial poultry production is horrific work, reliant upon the expendable bodies of Black and Brown workers, many of whom are immigrants. While anthropologists have increasingly employed the concepts of structural violence and vulnerability to understand the experiences …
Workers' Decompensation: Engaged Research with Injured Im/migrant Workers
As Others Pluck Fruit Off the Tree of Opportunity: Immigration, Racial Hierarchies, and Intergroup Relations Efforts in the United States
The foreign-born population in the United States has reached new heights, and experts predict that the country will be "majority minority" by 2042, possibly earlier. Despite its growing ethnic, racial, national, and other forms of diversity, the fundamental location of Blackness at the bottom of the pyramid of structural racism endures. In attempts to overcome the real and perceived tensions that characterize relationships between immigrants and …
Scratching Out a Living: "Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South"
Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South
The Disappearing State and the Quasi‐Event of Immigration Control
Immigration enforcement by sheriffs and police can be characterized as a proliferation of quasi‐events which never quite rise to the status of an event. This poses distinct challenges for feminist‐inspired scholarship on the state which seeks to document, ethnographically, how the state goes about its business on the ground. In this article we draw on our fieldwork experience in North Carolina and Georgia on sheriffs’ and police departments’ use …
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities: Training the Next Generation of Anthropologists
Automobility, Immobility, Altermobility: Surviving and Resisting the Intensification of Immigrant Policing
In the last five years, immigration enforcement in the United States has changed dramatically. The focus on federal border enforcement and workplace raids of yesteryear has been replaced by an intensification of state and local initiatives that rely on the daily policing of immigrant communities deep within the country's heartlands. Perhaps the most pervasive of these are the 287(g) and Secure Communities programs, which call upon local police an…
Enduring Whims and Public Anthropology
You might come here Sunday on a whim."
Sí Hubo Genocidio: Anthropologists and the Genocide Trial of Guatemala's Ríos Montt
What’s “Justice and Dignity” Got to Do with It: Migrant Vulnerability, Corporate Complicity, and the State
In 2001, Tyson Foods, one of the world's leading chicken processors, was indicted on charges that it recruited undocumented migrants to work in its plants across the rural United States. In the following years, Tyson engaged in an operation to purge the largest chicken plant in the country of hundreds of unionized immigrant workers, relying heavily on the Social Security Administration's controversial No-Match program to shape its termination pra…
Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas
Automobility, Immobility, Altermobility: Surviving and Resisting the Intensification of Immigrant Policing
In the last five years, immigration enforcement in the United States has changed dramatically. The focus on federal border enforcement and workplace raids of yesteryear has been replaced by an intensification of state and local initiatives that rely on the daily policing of immigrant communities deep within the country's heartlands. Perhaps the most pervasive of these are the 287(g) and Secure Communities programs, which call upon local police an…
The Disappearing State and the Quasi‐Event of Immigration Control
Immigration enforcement by sheriffs and police can be characterized as a proliferation of quasi‐events which never quite rise to the status of an event. This poses distinct challenges for feminist‐inspired scholarship on the state which seeks to document, ethnographically, how the state goes about its business on the ground. In this article we draw on our fieldwork experience in North Carolina and Georgia on sheriffs’ and police departments’ use …
When They're Done with You: Legal Violence and Structural Vulnerability among Injured Immigrant Poultry Workers
When they're done with you," an impassioned union representative once cautioned me, "they'll crumple you up like a piece of paper, throw you out, and reach back for your kids." Industrial poultry production is horrific work, reliant upon the expendable bodies of Black and Brown workers, many of whom are immigrants. While anthropologists have increasingly employed the concepts of structural violence and vulnerability to understand the experiences …
Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas
Sí Hubo Genocidio: Anthropologists and the Genocide Trial of Guatemala's Ríos Montt
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities: Training the Next Generation of Anthropologists
Workers' Decompensation: Engaged Research with Injured Im/migrant Workers
Enduring Whims and Public Anthropology
You might come here Sunday on a whim."
As Others Pluck Fruit Off the Tree of Opportunity: Immigration, Racial Hierarchies, and Intergroup Relations Efforts in the United States
The foreign-born population in the United States has reached new heights, and experts predict that the country will be "majority minority" by 2042, possibly earlier. Despite its growing ethnic, racial, national, and other forms of diversity, the fundamental location of Blackness at the bottom of the pyramid of structural racism endures. In attempts to overcome the real and perceived tensions that characterize relationships between immigrants and …
Labor shortages and the unmaking of class in Mississippi's poultry plants
Undocumented Activism and Minor Politics: Inside the Cramped Political Spaces of Deportation Defense Campaigns
Undocumented activism is on the rise. In response to the expansion of immigrant policing, detention, and deportation, immigrant rights organizers have increasingly deployed a longstanding approach to anti‐deportation activism called “deportation defense campaigns” (DDCs). DDCs seek to disrupt the deportation regime by preventing or delaying individual deportations and providing immigrants a path to temporary or permanent legalization on a case‐by…
What’s “Justice and Dignity” Got to Do with It: Migrant Vulnerability, Corporate Complicity, and the State
In 2001, Tyson Foods, one of the world's leading chicken processors, was indicted on charges that it recruited undocumented migrants to work in its plants across the rural United States. In the following years, Tyson engaged in an operation to purge the largest chicken plant in the country of hundreds of unionized immigrant workers, relying heavily on the Social Security Administration's controversial No-Match program to shape its termination pra…
Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas
Enduring Whims and Public Anthropology
You might come here Sunday on a whim."
Sí Hubo Genocidio: Anthropologists and the Genocide Trial of Guatemala's Ríos Montt
Automobility, Immobility, Altermobility: Surviving and Resisting the Intensification of Immigrant Policing
In the last five years, immigration enforcement in the United States has changed dramatically. The focus on federal border enforcement and workplace raids of yesteryear has been replaced by an intensification of state and local initiatives that rely on the daily policing of immigrant communities deep within the country's heartlands. Perhaps the most pervasive of these are the 287(g) and Secure Communities programs, which call upon local police an…
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities: Training the Next Generation of Anthropologists
Scratching Out a Living: "Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South"
Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South
The Disappearing State and the Quasi‐Event of Immigration Control
Immigration enforcement by sheriffs and police can be characterized as a proliferation of quasi‐events which never quite rise to the status of an event. This poses distinct challenges for feminist‐inspired scholarship on the state which seeks to document, ethnographically, how the state goes about its business on the ground. In this article we draw on our fieldwork experience in North Carolina and Georgia on sheriffs’ and police departments’ use …
As Others Pluck Fruit Off the Tree of Opportunity: Immigration, Racial Hierarchies, and Intergroup Relations Efforts in the United States
The foreign-born population in the United States has reached new heights, and experts predict that the country will be "majority minority" by 2042, possibly earlier. Despite its growing ethnic, racial, national, and other forms of diversity, the fundamental location of Blackness at the bottom of the pyramid of structural racism endures. In attempts to overcome the real and perceived tensions that characterize relationships between immigrants and …
Anthropology for Whom: Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship
When They're Done with You: Legal Violence and Structural Vulnerability among Injured Immigrant Poultry Workers
When they're done with you," an impassioned union representative once cautioned me, "they'll crumple you up like a piece of paper, throw you out, and reach back for your kids." Industrial poultry production is horrific work, reliant upon the expendable bodies of Black and Brown workers, many of whom are immigrants. While anthropologists have increasingly employed the concepts of structural violence and vulnerability to understand the experiences …
Workers' Decompensation: Engaged Research with Injured Im/migrant Workers
What’s “Justice and Dignity” Got to Do with It: Migrant Vulnerability, Corporate Complicity, and the State
In 2001, Tyson Foods, one of the world’s leading chicken processors, was indicted on charges that it recruited undocumented migrants to work in its plants across the rural United States. In the following years, Tyson engaged in an operation to purge the largest chicken plant in the country of hundreds of unionized immigrant workers, relying heavily on the Social Security Administration’s controversial “No-Match” program to shape its termination p…
The Criminalization of Undocumented Work, Pandemic Suffering, and the Meat We Eat: A Reflection on “What’s ‘Justice and Dignity’ Got to Do with It?” (Stuesse 2010)
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Angela Stuesse; The Criminalization of Undocumented Work, Pandemic Suffering, and the Meat We Eat: A Reflection on "What's 'Justice and Dignity' Got to Do with It?" (Stuesse 2010). Human Organization 1 June 2021; 80 (2): 102–104. doi: https://doi.org/10…
Undocumented Activism and Minor Politics: Inside the Cramped Political Spaces of Deportation Defense Campaigns
Undocumented activism is on the rise. In response to the expansion of immigrant policing, detention, and deportation, immigrant rights organizers have increasingly deployed a longstanding approach to anti‐deportation activism called “deportation defense campaigns” (DDCs). DDCs seek to disrupt the deportation regime by preventing or delaying individual deportations and providing immigrants a path to temporary or permanent legalization on a case‐by…
Chapter 8 Anthropology for Whom? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship
Challenges to addressing mental health repercussions of large-scale immigration worksite raids in the rural United States
Immigration worksite raids-in which dozens to hundreds of individuals are detained-often target food processing plants or other warehouse-based operations, primary sources of employment for immigrants in rural communities. Drawing on interviews with 77 adults who provided support following six worksite raids, we describe three challenges to identifying resultant mental health impacts: 1) amid poverty and family disappearance, mental health is not…
Labor shortages and the unmaking of class in Mississippi's poultry plants
“This wound is a world: ” Trauma and decolonial feminist praxis
As editors of this special issue of Feminist Anthropology , we consider the possibilities and challenges of ethnographic scholarship about and with trauma. Taking seriously the poet Billy‐Ray Belcourt's proposal that the wound is a world, this article builds on feminist and decolonial thinkers from within and beyond anthropology, alongside the contributors to this special issue, to make two arguments. First, we propose that the wound or woundedne…
Feeling our way through: On witnessing, writing, and improvisational care
Following a sequence of traumatic events involving a home raid, immigrant detention, and family separation, over fifteen years after the co‐authors first met our lives became entwined in ways we never could have predicted. In the decade since, we have been collaborating to narrate that experience and, in so doing, interweave Vargas's life story with an analysis of how U.S. immigration policy since 9/11 has indelibly shaped the lives of undocument…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Law (5 works)