Kristen Hill Maher
Biographic Data
| ID | 797003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Hill Maher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen Hill |
| FAMILY NAME | Maher |
| SIGNATURE | MAHER K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0151-5201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Conceptualizing an Interdisciplinary Collective Impact Approach to Examine and Intervene in the Chronic Cycle of Homelessness
Homelessness is a persistent problem in the United States in general and in Southern California especially. While progress has been made in reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States from 2007 (647,000) to 2019 (567,000), it remains an entrenched problem. The purpose of this paper is to outline a novel, interdisciplinary academic-practice partnership model to address homelessness. Where singular disciplinary appr…
Transnational intimacy and economic precarity of western men in northeast Thailand
This research examines the increasing migration of western men into Thailand, focusing on men in transnational intimate relationships in the northeastern region (Isan). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the lives of western men by focusing on their shifting social locations and experiences of gendered and economic mobility. While the men in this study could be considered ‘lifestyle migrants’, our findings complicate how lifesty…
Docile, criminal, and upwardly mobile: Visual news framing of Mexican migrants and the logics of neoliberal multiculturalism
Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Since the 1990s, local communities have come under pressure to help enforce federal immigration law. This phenomenon represents a major shift, both for the federal government’s exclusive legal jurisdiction over immigration and for the politics and practices of local policing. Policing Immigrants examines how local communities have been responding. Given the sheer variety of communities involved and a rapidly shifting landscape, it is a formidable…
Urban Image Work: Official and Grassroots Responses to Crisis in Tijuana
The images people hold about any city affect its ability to attract tourists, shoppers, and investment. This study of urban image in Tijuana examines institutional place promotion efforts in two vital sectors: industry and tourism. It also explores a diverse set of efforts to shape city image from the bottom-up, through blogs, grassroots organizations, and entrepreneurialism. This analysis of differently positioned actors working to shape percept…
White migrant masculinities in Thailand and the paradoxes of Western privilege
This study examines the counter-paradigmatic migration of Westerners into Thailand, focusing on men in transnational intimate relationships in the northeastern region. We explore how the particular spaces in which they settled affected these migrants' capacities to perform what they saw as hegemonic masculinities over time. We find that they initially experienced an increase in status that they were able to convert into assets in romantic relatio…
An Expression of Appreciation
Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform by Lina Newton
Journal Article Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform by Lina Newton Get access Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reformby Lina Newton. New York, New York University Press, 2008. 240 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Kristen Hill Maher Kristen Hill Maher San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Iss…
The Ties that Bind us: Mexican Migrants in San Diego County
The Dual Discourse About Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Race, and a Nationalist Project
This article examines the functions of the "dual discourse" about Peruvian migrant domestic workers in contemporary Santiago. A 2002 field study found that middle-class employers of Peruvian workers simultaneously praised them as superior workers and denigrated them as uneducated and uncivilized. While this response is not unique to Santiago, this study argues that it fulfilled particular ideological functions in this context. The praise served t…
Nanny politics: The dilemmas of working women's empowerment in Santiago, Chile
This article examines the new migration of Peruvian domestic workers into Santiago, Chile, where laws protecting the labor rights of household workers have recently been strengthened. Through field observations and interviews, we found that employers were disgruntled with Chilean workers who had begun to assert demands. Many of them preferred Peruvian workers, not because the labor was cheaper, but because foreign workers were more compelled to p…
Good Women “Ready to Go”: Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade
Research Article| March 01 2004 Good Women "Ready to Go": Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade Kristen Hill Maher Kristen Hill Maher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (1): 55–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kristen Hill Maher; Good Women "Ready to Go": Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade. Labor 1 March …
Borders and Social Distinction in the Global Suburb
What happens in historical white-flight suburbs when social hierarchies can no longer be marked easily by physical distance? What kinds of anxieties about boundaries and borders are evident, and with what consequences? This study examines these questions through a 1997 ethnographic study of a largely white, middle-class neighborhood in Irvine, California ("Ridgewood") that depended heavily upon service labor by working-class immigrant Latinos. Th…
Workers and Strangers: The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear
The growing household service economy (e.g., domestic service, gardening) introduces social heterogeneity both within and near suburban regions that have previously been segregated by race and class. The author examines this dynamic through an ethnographic study of a community in Orange County, California, and argues that the shifts in social geography accompanying the household service economy in this neighborhood had exacerbated existing anxiet…
Psychology and Rational Actor Theory
Does rational actor theory accurately capture our underlying political psychology? What can rational actor theorists gain from increased dialogue with psychologists? These were the central issues that concerned me as I chose to focus this special issue on the economic assumptions concerning human psychology, assumptions that form the foundation of neoclassical economics and which have been transmitted to the rest of social science through the the…
Political Values in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania: Sources and Implications for Democracy
Employing data from three surveys of mass opinion conducted in Lithuania, Ukraine and European Russia during 1990, 1991 and 1992, we examine three prominent but competing hypotheses about the source of political values in the post-Soviet societies: historically derived political culture, regime indoctrination and the effects of societal modernization. The literature on Soviet political culture argues that Russian mass values are distinguished by …
Political Values in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania: Sources and Implications for Democracy
Employing data from three surveys of mass opinion conducted in Lithuania, Ukraine and European Russia during 1990, 1991 and 1992, we examine three prominent but competing hypotheses about the source of political values in the post-Soviet societies: historically derived political culture, regime indoctrination and the effects of societal modernization. The literature on Soviet political culture argues that Russian mass values are distinguished by …
White migrant masculinities in Thailand and the paradoxes of Western privilege
This study examines the counter-paradigmatic migration of Westerners into Thailand, focusing on men in transnational intimate relationships in the northeastern region. We explore how the particular spaces in which they settled affected these migrants' capacities to perform what they saw as hegemonic masculinities over time. We find that they initially experienced an increase in status that they were able to convert into assets in romantic relatio…
Psychology and Rational Actor Theory
Does rational actor theory accurately capture our underlying political psychology? What can rational actor theorists gain from increased dialogue with psychologists? These were the central issues that concerned me as I chose to focus this special issue on the economic assumptions concerning human psychology, assumptions that form the foundation of neoclassical economics and which have been transmitted to the rest of social science through the the…
The Dual Discourse About Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Race, and a Nationalist Project
This article examines the functions of the "dual discourse" about Peruvian migrant domestic workers in contemporary Santiago. A 2002 field study found that middle-class employers of Peruvian workers simultaneously praised them as superior workers and denigrated them as uneducated and uncivilized. While this response is not unique to Santiago, this study argues that it fulfilled particular ideological functions in this context. The praise served t…
Workers and Strangers: The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear
The growing household service economy (e.g., domestic service, gardening) introduces social heterogeneity both within and near suburban regions that have previously been segregated by race and class. The author examines this dynamic through an ethnographic study of a community in Orange County, California, and argues that the shifts in social geography accompanying the household service economy in this neighborhood had exacerbated existing anxiet…
Transnational intimacy and economic precarity of western men in northeast Thailand
This research examines the increasing migration of western men into Thailand, focusing on men in transnational intimate relationships in the northeastern region (Isan). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the lives of western men by focusing on their shifting social locations and experiences of gendered and economic mobility. While the men in this study could be considered ‘lifestyle migrants’, our findings complicate how lifesty…
Nanny politics: The dilemmas of working women's empowerment in Santiago, Chile
This article examines the new migration of Peruvian domestic workers into Santiago, Chile, where laws protecting the labor rights of household workers have recently been strengthened. Through field observations and interviews, we found that employers were disgruntled with Chilean workers who had begun to assert demands. Many of them preferred Peruvian workers, not because the labor was cheaper, but because foreign workers were more compelled to p…
Borders and Social Distinction in the Global Suburb
What happens in historical white-flight suburbs when social hierarchies can no longer be marked easily by physical distance? What kinds of anxieties about boundaries and borders are evident, and with what consequences? This study examines these questions through a 1997 ethnographic study of a largely white, middle-class neighborhood in Irvine, California ("Ridgewood") that depended heavily upon service labor by working-class immigrant Latinos. Th…
Urban Image Work: Official and Grassroots Responses to Crisis in Tijuana
The images people hold about any city affect its ability to attract tourists, shoppers, and investment. This study of urban image in Tijuana examines institutional place promotion efforts in two vital sectors: industry and tourism. It also explores a diverse set of efforts to shape city image from the bottom-up, through blogs, grassroots organizations, and entrepreneurialism. This analysis of differently positioned actors working to shape percept…
Good Women “Ready to Go”: Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade
Research Article| March 01 2004 Good Women "Ready to Go": Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade Kristen Hill Maher Kristen Hill Maher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (1): 55–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kristen Hill Maher; Good Women "Ready to Go": Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade. Labor 1 March …
Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform by Lina Newton
Journal Article Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform by Lina Newton Get access Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reformby Lina Newton. New York, New York University Press, 2008. 240 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Kristen Hill Maher Kristen Hill Maher San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Iss…
Political Values in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania: Sources and Implications for Democracy
Employing data from three surveys of mass opinion conducted in Lithuania, Ukraine and European Russia during 1990, 1991 and 1992, we examine three prominent but competing hypotheses about the source of political values in the post-Soviet societies: historically derived political culture, regime indoctrination and the effects of societal modernization. The literature on Soviet political culture argues that Russian mass values are distinguished by …
Psychology and Rational Actor Theory
Does rational actor theory accurately capture our underlying political psychology? What can rational actor theorists gain from increased dialogue with psychologists? These were the central issues that concerned me as I chose to focus this special issue on the economic assumptions concerning human psychology, assumptions that form the foundation of neoclassical economics and which have been transmitted to the rest of social science through the the…
Workers and Strangers: The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear
The growing household service economy (e.g., domestic service, gardening) introduces social heterogeneity both within and near suburban regions that have previously been segregated by race and class. The author examines this dynamic through an ethnographic study of a community in Orange County, California, and argues that the shifts in social geography accompanying the household service economy in this neighborhood had exacerbated existing anxiet…
Good Women “Ready to Go”: Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade
Research Article| March 01 2004 Good Women "Ready to Go": Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade Kristen Hill Maher Kristen Hill Maher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (1): 55–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kristen Hill Maher; Good Women "Ready to Go": Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade. Labor 1 March …
Borders and Social Distinction in the Global Suburb
What happens in historical white-flight suburbs when social hierarchies can no longer be marked easily by physical distance? What kinds of anxieties about boundaries and borders are evident, and with what consequences? This study examines these questions through a 1997 ethnographic study of a largely white, middle-class neighborhood in Irvine, California ("Ridgewood") that depended heavily upon service labor by working-class immigrant Latinos. Th…
Nanny politics: The dilemmas of working women's empowerment in Santiago, Chile
This article examines the new migration of Peruvian domestic workers into Santiago, Chile, where laws protecting the labor rights of household workers have recently been strengthened. Through field observations and interviews, we found that employers were disgruntled with Chilean workers who had begun to assert demands. Many of them preferred Peruvian workers, not because the labor was cheaper, but because foreign workers were more compelled to p…
The Ties that Bind us: Mexican Migrants in San Diego County
The Dual Discourse About Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Race, and a Nationalist Project
This article examines the functions of the "dual discourse" about Peruvian migrant domestic workers in contemporary Santiago. A 2002 field study found that middle-class employers of Peruvian workers simultaneously praised them as superior workers and denigrated them as uneducated and uncivilized. While this response is not unique to Santiago, this study argues that it fulfilled particular ideological functions in this context. The praise served t…
An Expression of Appreciation
Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform by Lina Newton
Journal Article Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform by Lina Newton Get access Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reformby Lina Newton. New York, New York University Press, 2008. 240 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Kristen Hill Maher Kristen Hill Maher San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Iss…
Urban Image Work: Official and Grassroots Responses to Crisis in Tijuana
The images people hold about any city affect its ability to attract tourists, shoppers, and investment. This study of urban image in Tijuana examines institutional place promotion efforts in two vital sectors: industry and tourism. It also explores a diverse set of efforts to shape city image from the bottom-up, through blogs, grassroots organizations, and entrepreneurialism. This analysis of differently positioned actors working to shape percept…
White migrant masculinities in Thailand and the paradoxes of Western privilege
This study examines the counter-paradigmatic migration of Westerners into Thailand, focusing on men in transnational intimate relationships in the northeastern region. We explore how the particular spaces in which they settled affected these migrants' capacities to perform what they saw as hegemonic masculinities over time. We find that they initially experienced an increase in status that they were able to convert into assets in romantic relatio…
Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Since the 1990s, local communities have come under pressure to help enforce federal immigration law. This phenomenon represents a major shift, both for the federal government’s exclusive legal jurisdiction over immigration and for the politics and practices of local policing. Policing Immigrants examines how local communities have been responding. Given the sheer variety of communities involved and a rapidly shifting landscape, it is a formidable…
Docile, criminal, and upwardly mobile: Visual news framing of Mexican migrants and the logics of neoliberal multiculturalism
Transnational intimacy and economic precarity of western men in northeast Thailand
This research examines the increasing migration of western men into Thailand, focusing on men in transnational intimate relationships in the northeastern region (Isan). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the lives of western men by focusing on their shifting social locations and experiences of gendered and economic mobility. While the men in this study could be considered ‘lifestyle migrants’, our findings complicate how lifesty…
Conceptualizing an Interdisciplinary Collective Impact Approach to Examine and Intervene in the Chronic Cycle of Homelessness
Homelessness is a persistent problem in the United States in general and in Southern California especially. While progress has been made in reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States from 2007 (647,000) to 2019 (567,000), it remains an entrenched problem. The purpose of this paper is to outline a novel, interdisciplinary academic-practice partnership model to address homelessness. Where singular disciplinary appr…
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