Gendered Paths to Legal Citizenship

The Case of Latin-American Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona

Bibliographic Data

ID4085665
AuthorsOlivia Salcido (Arizona State University), Cecilia Menjívar (0000-0002-7061-509X)
Year2012
Volume46
Issue2
Pages335-368
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLaw & Society Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00491.x
OpenAlexW1789312586
LanguageEN
Citations received42
References cited43

In this paper we seek to contribute to a greater understanding of legal citizenship by exploring the gendered experiences of Latin-American-origin immigrants in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area as they go through the legalization process. To explore this gendered angle we rely on in-depth interviews conducted from 1998 through 2008 with women and men from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. The data reveal that although immigration policies and procedures are presumably gender neutral, they are in fact inflected with gendered meanings and enacted in gendered social structures. Gender ideologies permeate the processes to differentially affect the legalization, permanent legal residence, and citizenship processes of immigrant women and men. This article points to key gender inequalities in immigration law

Citizenship · Demographic economics · Geography · Immigration · Immigration law · Latin Americans · Legalization · Metropolitan area · Phoenix · Political science · Politics · Residence · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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