Amada Armenta
M.A. UCLA, Sociology
B.A. Rice University, Political Science
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
armenta@ucla.edu
Subfield
Immigration Policy, International Migration, Race/Ethnicity
Research Interests
My research examines the role of local political institutions in the enforcement of federal immigration policies in Nashville, Tennessee.
Publications
Amada Armenta. “Creating Community: Latina Nannies in a West L.A. Park,” Qualitative Sociology, forthcoming winter 2009.
Katharine Donato, Chizuko Wakabayashi, Amada Armenta, Shirin Hakimzadeh. “Shifts in the Employment Conditions of Mexican Migrant Men and Women: The Effect of U.S. Immigration Policy,” Work and Occupations, 35(4): 462-495, 2008.
Donato, K.M., C. Wakabayashi, A. Armenta, S.Hakimzadeh, and N. Gallegos Vargas, “Salarios de las Mujeres y Hombres Inmigrantes a Estados Unidos desde América Latina: Efectos de la Política de Inmigración de los Estados Unidos.” In Elaine Levine (ed.), Inserción Laboral de Migrantes Mexicanos y Latinos en Estados Unidos. Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2004.
Grants and Awards
ASA Minority Fellowship, 2005-2008
SSRC-Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research Grant, 2008
Institute of American Cultures Grant, 2006-2007
UC Labor & Employment Research Grant, 2005-2006
Institute of Industrial Relations Small Grant, 2006
National Science Foundation, Honorable Mention, 2005 & 2006
Ford Foundation Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2004 & 2005
Conference Presentations
"Creating Community in a West L.A. Park", Pacific Sociological Association. Section: Latino/as in the U.S. -- Los Angeles, CA, 4/22/06.
"Creating Community: Latina nannies in West L.A."Chicago Ethnography Conference, University of Chicago. 4/16/06.
Donato, Katharine M., Chizuko Wakabayashi, and Amada Armenta. 2004 “Gender, U.S. Immigration Policy, and the Employment Conditions of Mexican Migrants.” Presented at the annual conference of the Population Association of America.
Donato, Katharine M., Chizuko Wakabayash, Amada Armenta, and Shirin Hakimzedah
2003 “U.S. Immigration Policy Effects on the Wages of Latino Immigrants: Differences between Men and Women.” Presented at the Conference on Migration and Development, University of Zacatecas.
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