Laura Elise Enriquez
B.A. in Sociology and History, Pomona College 2008
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
leenriquez@ucla.edu
Subfield
international migration, race/ethnicity, gender
Research Interests
My research is centered around immigration, specifically looking at the lives of undocumented students using qualitative interviews and ethnography. Specifically, I look at their educational trajectories and activism.
Publications
“Living In A Glass Box: The Experiences of Undocumented Latina/o Students." (Revise and Resubmit for Latino Studies)
“Constructing Multiple ‘Gap[s]’: Reproducing Divisions and Disparities between Asian Americans and Latinas/os in a California High School,” Second Author with Gilda L. Ochoa, Sandra Hamada, Jenniffer Rojas. (in progress to submit to Sociology of Education).
Grants and Awards
California Sociological Association Student Award (2008)
Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2008-2012)
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (declined)
Pomona College Mellon Foundation Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship (2008)
Advisors
Vilma Ortiz
Conference Presentations
“Take the I-5 North: A Case Study of Undocumented California Students and Their Journey to Become Licensed Drivers” at the Undocumented Hispanic Migration Conference. New London, CT, forthcoming October 2009.
“Living in a Glass Box: The Experiences of Undocumented Latina/o Students” at the American Sociological Association Conference. San Francisco, CA, August 2009.
“Legislated Dreams and Conditional Futures: The Effects of Ambiguous Legal Status of Undocumented Students” co-presented with William E. Rosales at the Negotiating Legal Boundaries Graduate Conference. Santa Barbara, CA, May 2009.
“It Feels Like You’re in a Family”: The Role of Non-traditional Forms of Support in the Educational Success of Undocumented Latina/o Students” at the CSU San Marcos AB-540 Conference. San Marcos, CA, April 2009.
“Because We Feel the Pressure and We Also Feel the Support: Undocumented Latina/o Students' Educational Success” at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference. San Diego, CA, April 2009.
“Comparing ‘The Elite’ and ‘The Middle’: The Resource Differential Between Academic Programs,” co-presented with Markus Kessler at the California Sociological Association Conference. Riverside, CA, November 2008.
“Conditional Futures: The Gendered Hope of Undocumented Latina/o College Students in California,” at the Ford Foundation Fellows Conference. Washington D.C., September 2008.
“‘Una Mano No Se Lava Sola’: The Educational Experiences of Undocumented Latina/o College Students,” at the American Sociological Association Conference. Boston, MA, August 2008.
“Educating the Academic Elite in Systems of Inequality: The Hidden Curriculum of Academic Programs,” at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference. Portland, OR, April 2008.
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