Leisy J. Abrego
Ph.D., Sociology, June 2008
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
abrego@ucla.edu
Subfield
International Migration, Family and Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Latin America
Research Interests
Dissertation: Barely Subsisting, Surviving, or Thriving: How Parents’ Legal Status and Gender Shape the Economic and Emotional Well-Being of Salvadoran Transnational Families
The Effects of Legal Status on Latino Immigrants and their Families in the Home Country.
Publications
"Parents and Children across Borders: Legal Instability and Intergenerational Relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran Families." (With Cecilia Menjívar). Forthcoming in 2009 in Immigrant Families: Ties across Generations. Nancy Foner (Editor). New York: New York University Press.
“Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California” Forthcoming in August 2008 in Law & Social Inquiry.
• Winner of the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Sociology of Law.
“‘I can’t go to college because I don’t have papers’: Incorporation Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth.” Latino Studies 2006, 4(3): 212-231.
• Winner of the 2004 Riegos Distinguished Paper Award, ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology.
Grants and Awards
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2008-2009.
Haynes Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-2008.
ASA Section on the Sociology of Law, Graduate Student Paper Award, 2007. “Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California."
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006.
ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology, Riegos Distinguished Paper Award, 2004. “‘I can’t go to college because I don’t have papers’: Life and Educational Experiences of Latino Undocumented Youth.”
UCLA Latin American Center Small Grant, 2004-2005.
Latin American Studies Association, Central American Section, Summer Doctoral Research Grant, 2004.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Sociology, 2002-2005.
UCLA Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, 2002-2003.
UCLA Latin American Center Small Grant, 2002-2003.
Social Science Research Council, International Migration Program, Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop, 2002.
Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, 2000-2002.
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 1997-1998.
Conference Presentations
"From Barely Subsisting to Thriving: How Gender and Legal Status Affect Salvadoran Transnational Families." Invited Presentation at the Department of Sociology, University of Southern California. December 6, 2007.
"From Barely Subsisting to Thriving: How Gender and Legal Status Affect Salvadoran Transnational Families." Invited Presentation at the Department of Sociology, Pomona College. November 13, 2007.
“Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, NY. August 2007.
“Growing up Transnationally: Salvadoran Non-Migrant Children of Migrants and their Aspirations to Migrate.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. August 2006.
“Undocumented Youth: The Invisible Sector of the ‘New Second Generation.’” Invited Presentation at the Department of Sociology, Pitzer College. April 12, 2006.
“Growing Up With Hopes of Leaving: How Transnationalism Affects Non-Migrant Youth.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2006.
“Researching Salvadoran Transnational Families: Methodological Reflections and Preliminary Findings.” Invited Presentation at the Department of Sociology, Pomona College. February 27, 2006.
“Reinventing the Family: Salvadoran Experiences of Family Separation Due to International Migration.” Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in Las Vegas, NV. October 2004.
“The Contradictory Effects of Law on Undocumented Youth.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, CA. August 2004.
“Family Separation Through the Migration Process.” Invited panelist in “Central American Studies in the USA.” University of California, Santa Barbara. May 17, 2004.
“Unauthorized Youth and the Expressive Theory of Law.” Presented at the Society for Comparative Research 5th Annual Graduate Student Retreat. Princeton University. May 10, 2003.
“’I can’t go to college ‘cause I don’t have papers’: Educational and Life Experiences of Undocumented Latino Youth.” Presented at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA. April 4, 2003; AND at the 74th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting. Pasadena, CA. April 5, 2003.
“’I can’t go to college ‘cause I don’t have papers’: Educational Experiences of Undocumented Latino Youth.” Invited Presentation at the Department of Sociology, Pomona College. October 30, 2002.
“Almost American: Life and Educational Experiences of Undocumented Latino Youth.” Presented at the Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, UCLA. May 28, 2002.
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