Anna M O'Leary

Interests

Teaching

Immigration, Mexican American Culture, Gender, Political Economy, U.S. - Mexico Borderlands

Research

Immigration, Feminization of migration, Political Economy, U.S. - Mexico Border

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• O'Leary, A. O. (2014). Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of their Experiences, Volumes 1 and 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Greenwood Press.
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  This work is designed as a comprehensive introduction to the topic of undocumented immigrants' experiences in the United States. Much of the work will reflect the importance of migration from Latin America and current demographics. Specifics: 2 volumes; 340,000 words Entries: 240 Target audience: High School, College/University, and Public Libraries. Released in February 2014. The cover of volume 1 is attached; My role: Editor. Also attached below is a list of individual entries authored by me.
• O'Leary, A. O., Deeds, C. M., & Whiteford, S. (2013). Unchartered Terrain:New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
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  In 2009-2010, scholars were invited to develop essays that consider the methodological and ethical questions that they experienced from their research of border issues. Two workshops and one conference (funded by a Department of Homeland Security grant) were held to bring potential contributors together.

Chapters

• O'Leary, A. M., & Romero, A. J. (2020). Chicana/o Students Respond to Arizona's Anti-Ethnic Studies Bill, SB 1108: Civic Engagement, Ethnic Identity, and Well-Being. In The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán 1970-2019. (Eds.) Chon Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, & Charlene Villaseñor Black.(pp 602-619). Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press.
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  This chapter is a previously published journal article (2011) in Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies. The group of essays in this 4th edition of the Chicano Studies Reader focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This fourth edition of the Reader documents the foundation of Chicano studies, testifies to its broad disciplinary range, and explores its continuing development.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2018). The Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary during the Great Arizona Copper Strike, 1983-1986. In In: Sweat and Blood: Mexican Labor in Arizona, 1912-2012. (Eds.) Luis B. Placencia & Gloria Cuadraz(pp 248-269). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
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  [ABSTRACT] In this chapter I examine the changing role of women, via the Morenci Miners Women Auxiliary (of which I was part), in the context of the Great Arizona Copper Strike of 1983. The Auxiliary had for generations emerged after husbands, brothers, fathers and sons went on strike against the copper-producing company, Phelps Dodge. This chapter examines the role and impact of the Auxiliary in mobilizing resources used in fostering forms of community empowerment.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Simmons, W. P. (2018). Reproductive Justice and Resistance at the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands. In Reproductive Justice. (Eds) Erika Derkas, Loretta Ross, Lynn Roberts, and Pamela Bridgewater(pp 306-325). NY/CUNY: Feminist Press.
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  Drawing on research of the reproductive healthcare strategies of women, this paper explores the creative and multiple forms of resistance employed by immigrant women to retain control of their sexual health and reproductive choices.
• Oleary, A. M. (2018). Social Exchange Practices among Mexican-Origin Women in Nogales, Arizona. In The Chicana/o Education Pipeline: History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance, (Eds) Daniel Solorzano and Michaela J. López Mares-Tamayo(pp 304-335). University of California - Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press.
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  This article, previously published in Aztlan in 2006, was selected to republish in a special edition dedicated to the history of Latino education. The essays, which appeared in the journal between 1970 and 2015, present a historical overview that spans the 1880s to the present. Among the many topics considered are pervasive inadequacies and inequalities, bilingual education, the high school walkouts, Latinas in higher education, anti–ethnic studies legislation, and Jotería identity. The eighteen essays were selected for their potential to spark discussions about Chicana/o experiences and resilience in US schools.
• Oleary, A. M., & Romero, A. J. (2018). Chicana/o Students Respond to Arizona’s Anti-ethnic Studies Bill, SB 1108. In The Chicana/o Education Pipeline: History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance, (Eds) Daniel Solorzano and Michaela J. López Mares-Tamayo(pp 379-405). University of California - Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press.
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  This article, previously published in Aztlan in 2011, was selected to republish in a special edition dedicated to the history of Latino education. The essays, which appeared in the journal between 1970 and 2015, present a historical overview that spans the 1880s to the present. Among the many topics considered are pervasive inadequacies and inequalities, bilingual education, the high school walkouts, Latinas in higher education, anti–ethnic studies legislation, and Jotería identity. The eighteen essays were selected for their potential to spark discussions about Chicana/o experiences and resilience in US schools.
• Montoya-Zavala, E. C., & O'Leary, A. O. (2017). Mexicanas indocumentadas en Arizona. Politicas migratorias de repliegue laboral y estrategias de las mujeres inmigrantes.. In Hogares y familias transnacionales: Un encuentro desde la perspectiva humana, (Eds) José Guadalupe Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Oscar Calderón Morrillon y Miguel Moctezuma Longoria(pp Pp. 211-242). Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas y la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla: Juan Pablos, Editor S.A. de C.V.
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  Title translated from the Spanish:Undocumented Mexican Women in Arizona: Immigration policies, unemployment and Immigrant women's strategies. Article written (in Spanish) in collaboration with Erika Montoya, a visiting scholar from the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, for academic years 2010-2012, based on the research she completed as part of her grant.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2017). The Ethics of Culture and Transnational Household Structure and Formation. In The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions. Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez & Josiah Heyman (Eds)(pp 177-197). Tucson, AZ: UA Press.
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  For this chapter, I rely on research conducted in 2006-2007 to provide some insight. After a brief description of this study, consisting of interviews with recently repatriated migrant women, I use a selection of narratives to illustrate various patterns of social organization that have given rise to the transnational household structure that allows for their influences on behavior, practices, and identity to move in both directions.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2017). Undocumented Mexican Women in the U.S. Justice System: Immigration, Illegality, and Law Enforcement. In Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System, Corinne Datchi & Julie Ancis (Eds)(pp (In Press)). NY: New York University Press.
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  This chapter examines the experiences of recently deported Mexican immigrant women whose encounter with immigration enforcement officials came primarily through arrests by agents and agencies responsible for enforcing U.S. immigration laws. The interviews with the migrant women captured the different ways in which they experienced the system of immigration enforcement laws, and thus provided the opportunity to reflect on the possible long-term mental health effects of these experiences.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2016). Con el Peso peso en la Frente: A Gendered Look at the Human and Economic Costs of Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border. In Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La vida no vale nada (Eds. Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith et al.)(pp 69-96). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2014). Mas alla del Norte: Viejos senderos y nuevas perpectivas hacia la movilizacion politica y cultural. In Estudios Culturales. Practicas diversas, enfoques pluralistas(pp 17-29). Torre Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Azcapotzalco, México, DF,: Torre Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Azcapotzalco, México, DF,.
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  This is the Key Note address given at a Cultural Studies conference in Mexico City in April of 2013, sponsored by the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City, submitted for a publication.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Valdez-Gardea, G. C. (2013). Neoliberalizing (Re)production: Women, Migration, and Family Planning in the Peripheries of the State. In Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Identities, Citizenships, and Human Rights in Transnational Perspective(pp 75-94). Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate, Gender in a Local/Global World Series.
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  This chapter highlights binational research findings from a U.S.-Mexican border region study of the reproductive health care strategies of im/migrant women. These strategies were examined in the peripheries the state where risks posed to migrant and immigrant women -- when access to health care services and resources are limited or denied -- have achieved a degree of normalization. The economic and political contexts of the Sonora-Arizona migration corridor illustrate how access to reproductive health care services is complicated in a range of ways. For migrant women, especially, a negotiation of the adverse conditions associated with crossing into the United States without authorization converges with critical junctures in the female life cycle when both reproductive and productive demands are at their most critical stage. As such, we argue that the potential for harm is aggravated when an unequal distribution of resources to meet their needs is ignored or purposefully obstructed. Because of this, the state contributes to structural and cultural violence conditions, and therefore protracted violence against women.;
• O'Leary, A. O., Deeds, C. M., & Whiteford, S. (2013). Introduction. In New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice(pp 1-26). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
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  In this introductory chapter to Unchartered Terrains: New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice (UA Press). My role: Lead author;
• O'Leary, A. O., Valdez-Gardea, G. C., & Sanchez, A. (2013). Reflections on Methodological Challenges in a Study of Immigrant Women and Reproductive Health in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. In Unchartered Terrains: New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice(pp 184-205). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
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  In this chapter, the Co-PI for the PIMSA research project (Programa de Investigacion de Migracion y Salud, 2008-2009) and a graduate student research assistant reflect on the methodological issues that surfaced while conducting research among immigrant women and undocumented immigrant women in both Mexico and the United states.
• Romero, A. J., & O'Leary, A. O. (2014). When you know yourself yourself you are more confident: Resilience and stress of undergraduate students in the face of Anti-Ethnic Studies bills.. In Raza Studies: the Public Option for Educational Revolution.(pp 91-106). Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press.
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  For this submission, we rely on a study of the type of responses young adults, Latinos and non-Latino Whites, had to the proposal of Arizona's SB 1108, the Anti-Ethnic Studies Bill of 2008. We take a stress and coping approach to measuring and understanding youth strategies in response this bill, and how those responses are associated with self-esteem and depressive symptoms among undergraduate students.
• Whiteford, S., O'Leary, A. O., & Deeds, C. M. (2013). Conclusion. In Unchartered Terrains: New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice(pp 275-282). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
• Montoya-Zavala, E. C., Valenzuela-Camacho, B., & O'Leary, A. O. (2012). Factores que determinan la participacion de las mujeres inmigrantes en actividades por cuenta propia. Una revision bibliografica. In Migrantes, empresarias, politicas, profesionistas y traficantes de drogas: Mujeres en la esfera publica y privada, (ED) Erika C. Montoya-Zavala(pp 19-48). Culiacan, Sinaloa: Juan Pablos, SA.
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  This work was organized during the time that Erika Montoya Zavala was a visiting scholar here at the University of Arizona, during the 2010-2012 academic years. My role: co-author (#3). Erika Cecilia Montoya Zavala, and Blas Valenzuela Camacho, are from the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2012). Of Coyotes, Crossings, and Cooperation: Social Capital and Women's Migration at the Margins of the State. In Research in Economic Anthropology: Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America. (Eds.) D. C. Wood & T. Matejowsky(pp 133-160). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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  This article uses social capital theory to better understand some of the data that came from the 2006-007 Fulbright research among migrant women on the border.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Sanchez, A. (2012). Mixed Immigration Status Households in the Context of Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Policies. In Antiimigrant sentiments, actions and policies in North America and the European Union, Monica Verea (Ed)(pp 157-174). Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM): Mexico City: Centro de Investigacion sobre America del Norte (CISAN) de la Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM),.
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  This article is one of three published as a result of the PIMSA grant on immigrant women and reproductive health care strategies.
• O'Leary, A. O., Romero, A. J., Cabrera, N. L., & Rascon, M. (2012). Assault on Ethnic Studies. In Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, (Eds) Otto Santa Ana & Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante(pp 97-120). London and NY: Rowman Littlefield Publishers:.
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  The chapter and press release for the book is attached. The chapter builds on research conducted in 2008 during the presidential election. For the research, university students were surveyed about what they were feeling with the political tensions of the day, and what behaviors they adopted to help them deal with them.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2011). Mujeres en el Cruce: Entre la Separacion y Reunificacion Familiar en Epoca de (In)Seguridad. In Retratos de Frontera: Migracion Cultura e Identidad, Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea and Helen Balslev Clausen (Eds)(pp 157-188). Hermosillo, Sonora:: Colegio de Sonora.
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  This is a book chapter based on the Fulbright research, published in Spanish. Case histories of women migrants who have been repatriated are described in the context of economic poverty and intensified border enforcement in and around the Nogales port of entry.
• O'Leary, A. O., Gonzales, N. E., & Valdez-Gardea, G. C. (2011). Practicas de Surgimiento en las Latinas: Entre Narraciones Culturales y la Globalizacion en la Frontera EEUU-Mexico. In Retratos de Frontera: Migracion Cultura e Identidad. Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea and Helen Balslev Clausen (Eds)(pp 127-156). Hermosillo, Sonora:: Colegio de Sonora.
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  This article (translated from the English) is based on my dissertation research in Nogales Arizona.
• Oleary, A. M. (2009). In the Footsteps of Spirits: Migrant Women's Testimonios in a Time of Heightened Border Enforcement. In Violence, Security, and Human Rights at the Border: Gendered Violence and Insecurity(pp 91-112). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
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  In this chapter, I highlight three narratives to illustrate the risks women face in crossing the desert in the hands of "coyotes, " as a consequence of greater immigration enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.
• Oleary, A. M. (2007). Introduction: Movement Politics and Chicano Studies. Kendall Hunt.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: O'Leary, Anna Ochoa. (2007).“Introduction: Movement Politics and Chicano Studies," In Chicano Studies: The Discipline and the Journey, A. O. O'Leary (Ed.) Kendall Hunt Publishing, Dubuque: IO, v-xx;

Journals/Publications

• Gomez, S., & OLeary, A. M. (2019). “On edge all the time”: Mixed-status households navigating health care post Arizona’s most stringent anti-immigrant law. Frontiers in Public Health, 6(683). doi:doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00383
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  This article examines the healthcare experiences of mixed-status households after Arizona’s SB1070 (“Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act”) was passed.
• Montoya-Zavala, E. C., Herrera-Garcia, M. C., & O'Leary, A. M. (2019). Foto-voz como Técnica de Investigación en Jóvenes Migrantes de Retorno. Trayectorias migratorias, identidad y educación [Photo-voice as Research Technique in Young Return Migrants. Migration trajectories, identity and education]. EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 45, 15-49. doi:10.5944/empiria
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  This article describes in the Photo-voice research technique and assess its application to the issue of return migration to help us understand the role of migratory trajectories, language, stigma and identity and the educational aspirations of returning youth at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). We present the main findings in three categories of analysis: migratory trajectories, stigma-identity, and the educational aspirations of young returnees.
• Gomez, S., & O'leary, A. O. (2018). "On Edge All the Time": Mixed-Status Households Navigating Health Care Post Arizona's Most Stringent Anti-immigrant Law.. Frontiers in public health, 6, 383. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00383
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  Arizona's state-level policies restricting undocumented immigrants' access to public benefits continue to have implications on mixed-status households' accessibility to care. More notably, the effects of prolonged stress, anxiety and trauma remain unaddressed whilst mental health services continue to be absent. This article examines the healthcare experiences of mixed-status households after Arizona's SB1070 ("Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act") was passed. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (SB1070) was state legislation empowering police to detain individuals unable to prove their citizenship upon request. Of particular interest is how households navigate accessibility to care when members have varied immigration statuses, hence, varied healthcare availability. Interviews with 43 households in Tucson, Arizona, 81% of which had at least one undocumented member, reveal barriers and promoters to care. Barriers include complexity of applications, fear and trepidation in seeking care. Promoters include discount care programs that are a vital source of care as well as discretionary practices exercised by front-line staff. Findings have implications beyond Arizona as immigrants settle in new destination states while the current Trump administration borrows from Arizona's anti-immigrant policies.
• Romero, A. J., Moreno, M., O'Leary, A. O., & Covarrubias, R. (2017). Immigrant Stigma Stress in the Context of Immigration Enforcement Policy and Collective Resilience. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 42(1), 19-44.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2016). Privatizing Spanish? An Idea Revisited. Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe, XXXIII(3), 42-83.
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  This paper is a contribution to a thematic issue of Bilingual Review, where I examine an early writing by Richard Ruiz, “The Empowerment of Language-Minority Students” (Ruiz, 1997). I revisit its thesis and retraced its argument in light of past experiences and more current developments related to language, culture, “voice,” and minority student empowerment.
• Montoya, E. Z., O'Leary, A. O., & Woo, O. M. (2015). Mujeres inmigrantes en Arizona y su inserción laboral. Dueñas de salones de belleza vs Estilistas informales. DOXA: Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, 5(9), 42-66.
• Montoya-Zavala, E. C., O'Leary, A. O., & Woo-Morales, O. (2014). A Headache Every Day Since the New Law: Mexican Women Self-employment in the Hair Salon Business and Anti-immigrant Policies in Arizona. Migraciones Internacionales, 3(7), 131-162.
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  In this paper, we analyze the involvement of Mexican women in the formal and informal self-employment sector in a large metropolitan area in Arizona. Qualitative research was used to explore factors that impact self-employment activities of Mexican immigrants in light of Arizona's emerging policies aimed at controlling immigration. These policies seek to make it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to access employment opportunities. Women's testimonials highlight the headaches that come with participating in the labor market amid growing restrictions, as well as the creative, hybrid forms of self-employment that combine both formal and informal markets and practices. This was collaboratively written article with Erika Montoya-Zavala from the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, who was a visiting scholar at the Mexican American Studies Dept. (Academic years 2010-2012), and Ofelia Woo, from the University of Guadalajara.
• O'Leary, A. O., Gomez, S., & Montoya-Zavala, E. C. (2014). Stress and Fear in Immigrant Communities: Implications for Health and Human Development. Encuentros: Revista en Ciencias Sociales del Pacfico Mexicano, 1(1), 150-172.
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  For this paper, the experience of immigrant families under growing immigration enforcement policies were explored to better understand the health implications that anti-immigrant policies may have on children, their families, and the wider social fabric of the immigrant community in Tucson, Arizona. A community based participation action research approach helped researchers formulate questions and organize focus groups to capture the nuances of mixed immigration status families.This article includes a graduate student co-author from the College of Public health, and a visiting scholar in the Department in 2011-2012.;
• Carvajal, S., Rosales, C. B., Raquel, G. R., Sabo, S., Ingram, M. -., McClelland, D., Redondo, F., Torres, E., Romero, A. J., O'Leary, A. O., Sanchez, Z., & De Zapien, J. G. (2013). The Border Community and Immigration Stress Scale: A Preliminary Examination of a Community Responsive Measure in Two Southwest Samples. Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 2(15), 427-436.
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  This article is based on earlier research on Migrant Farmworker health in Yuma, Arizona. The article was first published on-line in 2012, then in print in 2013.
• Carvajal, S., Rosales, C., Goldsmith, R. R., Sabo, S., Ingram, M., McClelland, D. J., Redondo, F., Torres, E., Romero, A. J., O'Leary, A. O., Sanchez, Z., & Jill, D. (2013). The Border Community and Immigration Stress Scale: A Preliminary Examination of a Community Responsive Measure in Two Southwest Samples. Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 2(15), 427-436.
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  The article is a joint effort by college of public health colleagues, community based organization, and BMI researchers that investigated the the factors that impact immigrant health in minority communities in South Tucson, and in Yuma, Arizona. My role: Contributing author;
• O'Leary, A. O. (2011). El trabajo flexible y la baja inversion en la educacion de las mujeres de la frontera EEUU- Mexico. Region y Sociedad, 50(XXiii), 23-54.
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  This is a chapter based on dissertation research on women and work-force roles in Nogales Arziona. It was written (in Spanish) in collaboration with former research assistant on the project who is now current professor and researcher at the Colegio de Sonora (Gloria Ciria Valdez Gardea) and dissertation committee member, Dr. Norma Gonzalez.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Romero, A. J. (2011). Chicana/o Students’ Respond to “Anti-Ethnic Studies” Bill 1108: Civic Engagement, Ethnic Identity and Well-being. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 1(31), 9-36.
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  This article reports on three relevant conclusions that were drawn from a study of students and their responses to anti-ethnic studies political rhetoric: 1) the proposed anti-ethnic studies policy is associated with more stress, lower self-esteem, and depressive symptoms 2) youth who were engaged in the anti-ethnic studies legislation were more likely to report higher self-esteem and 3) a positive ethnic identity, based on knowledge of one’s cultural heritage and history, was associated with higher self-esteem and fewer depressive symptoms.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Sanchez, A. (2011). Anti-Immigrant Arizona: Ripple Effects and Mixed Immigration Status Households under 'Policies of Attrition' Considered. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 1(26), 115-133.
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  This article was co-authored with student, Azucena Sanchez. We argue that in Arizona, emerging anti-immigrant policies that by design single out undocumented immigrants for exclusion grossly neglect important historical and geographical factors that have resulted in the prevalence of mixed immigration status households: domestic units in which the immigration status of at least one member is different from the others. As such, this feature of social organization will make the implementation of such policies untenable. My role: Lead author.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2009). Mujeres en el Cruce: Remapping Border Security through Migrant Mobility. Journal of the Southwest, 4(51), 523-542.
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  I highlight portions of some of the narratives of migrant women that provide insight into how oppositional forces are reworked at this conceptual intersection. Toward this end, I focus on the tension between family separation and family reunification as perhaps the most salient of the issues brought up by migrant women. By focusing on these related but contradictory processes, I flesh out a prominent feature of the intersection, following a relational thinking approach that incorporates subjects and subjectivity into discussions about more abstract processes and concepts such the state and markets;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: O'Leary, Anna Ochoa. 2009. “Mujeres en el Cruce: Remapping Border Security through Migrant Mobility,” Journal of the Southwest. 51(4): 523-542;
• O'Leary, A. O. (2009). The ABCs of Unauthorized Border Crossing Costs: Assembling, Bajadores, and Coyotes. Migration Letters, 6(1), 27-36.
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  This article examines the costs of migration using data gathered in the Fulbright-sponsored research in 2006-2007. Interviews with repatriated migrant women on the border helps uncover this economic “underbelly” of transnational movement in what I dub the ABCs of migration costs: those related to assembling, bajadores (border bandits), and coyotes. ;Your Role: Author: one of several dontributing to a special issue on the transnational costs of migration.;Full Citation: O'Leary, Anna Ochoa (2009). The ABCs of Unauthorized Border Crossing Costs: Assembling, Bajadores, and Coyotes, Migration Letters 6(1) 27-36.;Electronic: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: The article is part of a set of papers of scholars from different universities throughout the nation in a panel on the transnational costs of migration, co-organized with Jeff Cohen (OH) and presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.;
• Oleary, A. M., González, N., & Valdez-Gardea, G. C. (2008). Latinas' Practices of Emergence: Between Cultural Narratives and Globalization on the U.S./Mexico Border. Journal of Latinos and Education, 7(3), 206-226.
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  In this article, based on dissertation research on the border, we attempt to map out the “in between” space between global and cultural narratives that mediate women's educational trajectories. Case studies of women living on the U.S.-Mexico border make visible these spaces, sites of “practices of emergence”: the practices that emerge from incommensurable economic demands and social prescriptions and produced in the act of social survival. In negotiating both global and cultural narratives, materially and ideologically, the occupants and ideas that inhabit these spaces are in constant flux, resulting in the reformulation of the notions of mothering, pedagogy, and place, resulting in variable educational outcomes for women;Your Role: Lead author; lead researcher (PI);Full Citation: O'Leary, Anna Ochoa, Norma González, and Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea. (2008). “Latinas' Practices of Emergence: Between Cultural Narratives and Globalization on the U.S./Mexico Border,” Journal of Latinos and Education, Vol. 7(3): 206-226;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaboration includes that with a faculty member at other institution (Colegio de Sonora);

Proceedings Publications

• O'Leary, A. O. (2014, Fall). Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Chicano/a Studies and Nurturing Civic Engagement in the classroom. In Conference Proceedings (NACCS 2012 Chicago).
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  Abstract:This paper describes how I use the principles inherent in the history of the development of Chicano/a Studies as an academic discipline to try to create wider awareness in the classroom about the relationship between civic engagement and knowledge production. The content of 225 final project papers was systematically examined and selected excerpts illustrate how, when structured by course objectives and activities (such as collaborative learning exercises and service learning), real-life collaborations with community organizations might channel experiences into greater awareness of how knowledge transforms and empowers. In this way, civic engagement is validated and nurtured in the context of general education goals and objectives. These are nested within the broader contemporary efforts to dismantle the educational achievements of the Chicano Movement of the last 40 years.

Presentations

• Oleary, A. M. (2023, June 1-4). Reader/discussant: Author meets Reader Session. Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship: Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State, by Jane Lopez, Brigham Young University.. Law & Society Global Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Law & Society Association (LSA).
• Oleary, A. M. (2023, June 1-4). “Binational Migration Research: Methodological Challenges, Conceptual Insights.” . Law & Society Global Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Law & Society Association (LSA).
• Oleary, A. M. (2023, May 25-27). “The ‘Mainstreaming’ of Ethnic Studies. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?” . 3o Congreso Internacional MUROS. Elche-Alicante, Spain: ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANOUNIDENSES Y CULTURAS HISPÁNICAS DE AMÉRICA DEL NORTE (HCNA),.
• Oleary, A. M. (2023, Oct. 18-20). “Estudios México-Americanos, Chicano/x y Latino/x. Espacios de resistencia y regeneración de comunidades descuidadas de EAU y México.” . 5º Congreso Nacional y 1º Internacional de Educación Pública. Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México: Various (See Attached Flyer).
• Oleary, A. M., & Cortez, N. A. (2023, Nov 9). “Buscando el Sueño Mexicano: A binational research project’s journey from methods to (preliminary) findings.” . English Language Teaching Academic Forum. Hermosillo, Sonora, México: Universidad de Sonora.
• Oleary, A. M., & May, C. (2023, Oct. 14). “Women Advocating for Immigrant Rights & Borderland Aid.”
  . Arizona Women’s History Alliance Annual Symposium. Tempe History Museum, Tempe, AZ.: Arizona Women’s History Alliance.
• Oleary, A. M., Cortez, N. A., & Saucedo, M. A. (2023, Apr. 5). “Buscando el Sueño Mexicano: The methodological journey of a binational project.” . Borderlands Education Center (BEC). University of Arizona College of Education, Tucson, AZ: Borderlands Education Center (BEC); University of Arizona College of Education.
• Oleary, A. M. (2022, June). Buscando el Sueño Mexicano: Mexico's Returning Students' Educational Goal Setting in the Age of Heightened Immigration Enforcement. Navigating Education in the Borderlands. Live On-Line (Zoom): UA W.A. Franke Honors College; UA Borderlands Education Center; Fulbright COMEXUS; Universidad de Sonora.
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  Presentation described the Fulbright research conducted in Fall 2021-Spring 2022.
• Oleary, A. M. (2022, November). Déjà vu All Over Again: A Review of Trends in the Unmaking of MAS/Chicano/a Studies. National Association of Ethnic Studies Conference. California State University, College of Ethnic Studies, Los Angeles, CA: National Association of Ethnic Studies Conference & College of Ethnic Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
• Oleary, A. M., & Cortez, N. (2022, April). Education Goal Setting among Students Returning to Mexico: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Immigration Enforcement. Binational Network for Healthy Communities in the Sonora-Arizona Border Region. Live On-Line (Zoom): Binational Network for Healthy Communities in the Sonora-Arizona Border Region.
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  Presentation of Fulbright research.
• Oleary, A. M. (2021, Spring Semester). Poblaciones compartidas: hacia un concepto transfronterizo para el estudio de jóvenes de aquí y de allá. NIÑEZ Y ADOLESCENCIA MIGRANTE EN LAS AMÉRICAS. Herramientas Teórico-Metodológicas para su Estudio y Aplicación. Live On-Line (Zoom): Instituto de Investigaciones Anthropologicas; UNAM-Boston/Centro de Estudios Mexicanos; Educacion Continua UNAM..
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  This was one of several classes needed for graduate students to earn a certificate for theory and methods at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
• O'Leary, A. M., Soto, G., & Goldsmith, R. R. (2019, May 2019). When Death Comes Knocking: Uneven Efforts to Identify and Enumerate Migrant Deaths along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Muros: 1st International Conference for Dialogue with Hispanic Cultures of North America,. Elche, Spain: Universidad Miguel Hernandez and the Spanish Association for Dialogue with the Hispanic Cultures of North America.
• O'Leary, A. M., Soto, G., & Goldsmith, R. R. (2019, May 23-25). When Death Comes Knocking: Uneven Efforts to Identify and Enumerate Migrant Deaths along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA: Latin American Studies Association.
• Oleary, A. M., Soto, G., & Goldsmith, R. R. (2019, May). When Death Comes Knocking: Uneven Attempts to Identify and Enumerate Migrant Deaths along the US-Mexico Border. XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Boston, MA: Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
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  This paper summarizes some of the findings from this study. We found that standards for death investigation are often inconsistent and contradictory, often impervious to public scrutiny, and many decisions about the fate of undocumented migrant remains remain highly politicized and localized. The “violence triangle” (Galtung 1990) provides a framework for understanding the sociopolitical underpinnings for uneven and shifting levels of accountability for addressing migrant fatalities. This paper is part of a binational panel on Border issues, with colleagues from UNAM (see documents attached for details).
• Oleary, A. M. (2018, 10-12-18). The Women of the 1983 Copper Strike. Arizona Women's History Symposium: Arizona Women: Advocating for Change. Arizona Heritage Center, Tempe, AZ: Arizona Women's History Alliance.
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  The symposium's purpose was to explore the history of Arizona women advocating for change, and to stimulate thinking about research and writing women's history that can inspire others.
• Oleary, A. M. (2018, November 6, 2018). When Death Comes Knocking: Uneven Attempts to Identify and Enumerate Migrant Deaths along the US-Mexico Border. Border Crossings Gender Sexuality and Rights (UA). University of Arizona: UA Gender & Women's Studies and UA Dept. of History.
• Oleary, A. M., & Soto, G. (2018, 06-14-18). When Death Comes Knocking: Uneven Attempts to Identify and Enumerate Migrant Deaths along the US-Mexico Border. Border deaths and migration policies: state and non-state approaches (Universiteit Amsterdam). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, IOM, MSF and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions.
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  This paper summarizes some of the findings that show operating standards for death investigation are often inconsistent and contradictory, often impervious to public scrutiny, and many decisions about the fate of undocumented migrant remains continue to be mostly localized. The violence triangle framework (Galtung, 1990) is used to discuss the broader implications of the findings.
• Goldsmith, R. R., & Oleary, A. M. (2016, Nov. 18). Migrant Deaths on the Border: La vida no vale nada. Book presentation. Antigone's Books Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
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  This important new book addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration, namely the deaths of thousands of men, women, and children who have lost their lives while crossing the desert in search of a better life. The contributors consist of a multidisciplinary group who are dedicated to shining a spotlight on the historical silence surrounding this human tragedy.
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, Apr 28). Aqui estamos y no los vamos: The Transnationalization of Immigrant Households and the Remaking of America. Themes and Lessosn in U.S. Mexico Relations. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: UA Latin American Studies, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), and Centro Investigacion y Estudios de America Del Norte (CISAN).
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, Feb 20). “Advancing the Moment: The Road to MAS as a field of Study.” Tucson, AZ. University of Arizona Asian Pacific American Student Association Conference,. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Asian Pacific American Student Association.
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, Jan 23). “Modern Day Braceros and the Return of ‘Operation Wetback’ Discourse in Contemporary U.S. Presidential Politics.. Bitter Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964. Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson, AZ: Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson, AZ; Smithsonian Institute.
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, July 15). “Mas Allá de la Frontera: La Unidad Domestica en la Busca de una vida mejor.”. 2º Encuentro de Migración. Nealtican, Puebla, Mexico: Conjunto de Jovenes para la Fomentacion de Educacion (COJUFE), Nealtican, Puebla, Mexico.
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, Jun 14). International Graduate Student Recruitment after an Intensive Research Experience: The Latin America Case at UA. INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXPERIENCES SUMMIT. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: UA Graduate Colledge, Latin American Partnership Initiatives, and UA Global Initiatives.
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, Mar 18). “Institutionalizing Ethnic Studies in Arizona”. Forging New Relationships in Ethnic Studies. PCC Ethnic Studies Forum,. Pima Community College, Downtown Campus, Tucson, AZ: Pima Community College.
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, National Association for Ethnic Studies). Plenary Panel address, Tucson, AZ March 18, 2016.. National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Conference. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: National Association for Ethnic Studies, Mexican American Studies.
• Oleary, A. M. (2016, Nov 14-15). Familias de Status Migratorio Mixto y Separación Familiar. 1st. Binational Conference Experiences of Intervention with Migrants in National and International Levels.. Centro de las Artes, Univ. de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora: Univerisidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and Univ. de Sonora.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, May). Aterrizando Realidades, Transcendiendo Fronteras: Confluencias Sociales en la Busca de una vida mejor. V Encuentro Internacional Migración y Niñez Migrante. Hermosillo, Sonora: olegio de Sonora.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, November). In the Wake of Child separation: Psychological dimensions of the migration experience. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Denver CO.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, November). Mas Allá de la Frontera: La Unidad Domestica en la Busca de una vida mejor.. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Seminario Permanente. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia & CONACULTA.
• Oleary, A. O. (2015, April). When Death comes Knocking: Civic Engagement and efforts to identify the dead along the US Mexico Border. Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 62nd Annual Meeting. Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel.
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  This paper for a panel entitled, The Geographies of Civic Engagement: Mapping,Community Organization Collaboration in Efforts to Identify and Enumerate the Dead along the U.S. Mexico Border
• O'Leary, A. O. (2014, April 2014). Tener Menos, Para Darles Mas (Have fewer, to give them more): The Transnationalization of Family Planning Trends. Rethinking Bodies through the Border. Honors College, Slonaker Hall: The Center for Critical Studies of the Body and The Colibri Center for Human Rights.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2014, February 2014). Anti-Immigrant Arizona: Policies of Attrition and their Ripple Effects on Mixed Immigration Status Households. XVIII Congreso Internacional: La Frontera Una Nueva Concepcion Cultural, ASU Tempe.. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, Paradise Valley Community College, Chandler-Gilbert Community College; New University of Sorbon (París); Chasqui; Roger Conynck Cultural Center, Somos América..
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  In this paper, emerging anti-immigrant policies that by design single out undocumented immigrants for exclusion (known as attrition through enforcement policies). Important historical and geographical factors resulting in the ubiquitous mixed immigration status household: domestic units in which the immigration status of at least one member is different from the others, are used to point out why such policy efforts are short-sighted.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2014, February 2014). Panel Organization: Uncompromising Strictures and Reimagining Resolve: Multi-sited struggles for Inclusion in the Border Region and Beyond. XVIII Congreso Internacional La Frontera: Una Nueva Concepcion Cultural, ASU, Tempe.. Arizona State University, Tempe: Arizona State University.
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  [Panel Organizer] I organized a panel of papers in which we reexamine immigration within the context of increased immigration enforcement measures which have played a critical role in the border region. In recent years, these have also become increasingly uncompromising and exclusionary, constraining the aspirations and needs of citizens and noncitizens alike.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2014, March 16-20, 2014). Tener menos, para darles mas: The Transnationalization of Family Planning Trends. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. Albuquerque, NM: Society for Applied Anthropology.
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  In this paper, I presented findings from the Puentes Consortium research, in which the co-authors and myself analyzed the family planning trends of Mexican women in both the US and Mexico. The evidence gleaned from Mexico is leveraged with that from the US to better understand the complexity of factors that has driven down fertility rates in both counties in a shared expression of instability and mobility. We include an analysis of the impact of U.S. and Mexican policies on im/migrant women, and how family planning attitudes and decisions in both countries may be culturally and politically aligned.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2013, July). Mas alla del Norte: Viejos senderos y nuevas perspectivas sobre la movilizacion poltica, cultura, y la familia de estatus migratoria mixta.. Keynote Address: II Congreso Internacional de Estudios Culturales: Analisis y Crtica. Palacio Nacional, Mexico DF: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco.
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  This was Keynote (Conferencia Magistral) address given at the II Congreso Internacional de Estudios Culturales: Analisis y Critica, organized by Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco, in Mexico City. The Keynote was included in a publication of the proceedings of the conference.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2013, March). Aqui estamos, y no nos vamos: Interdisciplinary perspectives on transborder places and transnational spaces as sites of resistance. National Association of Chicano/a Studies Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. National Association of Chicano/a Studies Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX: National Association of Chicano/a Studies Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
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  As panel organizer and discussant for this panel, I helped students present their work. Some were working with BMI on the project, Protocol Development for the Standardization of Identification and Examination of UBC bodies along the U.S.-Mexico Border. The panel examined how economic policies, practices, and conditions that are particularly injurious to immigrant communities not only structure spaces of transborder discrimination but also the transnational spaces where civic engagement, resistance, and agency take place.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2013, March). Roundtable: Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice. National Association of Chicano/a Studies Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. San Antonio, TX: National Association of Chicano/a Studies, San Antonio, TX.
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  This presentation summarized the content of the forthcoming book, New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice; (Eds) Anna Ochoa OLeary, Colin Deeds, and Scott Whiteford. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press
• O'Leary, A. O. (2013, May). Estres y Temor en familias de inmigrantes: Implicaciones para la salud y el desarrollo humano. IV Encuentro Internacional Migracion y Ninez Migrante. Migracion y Retorno, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico,: El Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
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  In this co-authored paper, grad student (Sofia Gomez) and I report findings from a summer pilot project in 2011 that examined the experience of immigrant families under growing immigration enforcement policies and growing health concerns about how anti-immigrant policies may impact children, their families, and the wider social fabric of the immigrant community in Tucson, Arizona.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2013, November). A Perfect Storm: Immigrant Women, Reproductive Justice, and the Politics of Healthcare Access. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, ILL.. Chicago, ILL: American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, ILL..
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  Discussed in this paper is the fraught terrain of healthcare access, conceived as a potentially problematic confluence of immigration, the contemporaneous and politically charged war on women where because of their immigration status, immigrant women are increasingly denied access to health care programs where they may find family planning information, and professional counseling and monitoring of contraceptive use.
• O'Leary, A. O., Marchand, M. M., Loredo, S. M., Rodríguez, E. M., & Rios-Rivera, L. A. (2013, November). Mexican Women and Family Planning Trends: A Cross Border Synthesis. Puentes Consoritium, Rice University, Houston, TX. Houston, TX: Puentes Consoritium, Rice University, Houston, TX.
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  This paper was a product of binational collaboration, between a researcher in Mexico (Universidad de la Americas- Puebla) and three students. Secondary data and primary data were used to draw links between family planning trends in Mexico with those in the US.The Puentes Consortium is made up of 5 universities from Mexico and the United States that carry out multi-disciplinary research on issues of importance to both, Mexico and the U.S. and to the well-being of their inhabitants. Participating universities in Mexico include Monterrey Tec (ITESM), the University of Monterrey (UDEM) and the University of the Americas in Puebla (UDLAP), and in the United States, the University of Arizona and Rice University.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2012, 2012). Behind the Books: UA Library Panel of Authors. ASUA Book Store. University of Arizona Book Store: ASUA Book Store.
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  This was a panel of contributing authors to the book, Arizona Firestorm, edited by Otto Santa Ana and Celeste Bustamante. In this book, I have a co-authored chapter titled: Assault on Ethnic Studies, which was published during the summer.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2012, 2012). Book Presentation: "Nuevos Senderos, Mismo Destino". Book presentation Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa. University Autonoma de Sinaloa, Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico: University Autonoma de Sinaloa.
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  The research upon which the book is based on was undertaken in Phoenix, AZ in 2007, and Erika Montoya Zavala is our Dept visiting Scholar for 2010-2012. My role: Panel member and discussant, of a panel assembled to present the publication of the new book (Nuevos Senderos; Mismos Destinos) with the authors of the book, Blas Valenzuela Camacho and Erika Montoya Zavala.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2012, 2012). When Death Comes Knocking: Geography, Enforcement, and Civic Engagement in Efforts to Identify and enumerate the dead along the U.S. Mexico Border. Globalizacion y Migracion Inmigracion: Politicas de seguridad y derechos humanos de los migrantes. Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California.
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  This paper was part of a panel titled, The State Violence of Death and Disappearance on the Border: A Call to Expand the Human Rights Framework, also organized in collaboration with graduate student working on our research project.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2012, 2012-03-01). "Life, Family and the Arizona Mining Community: A Gendered Perspective". University of Arizona Library Special Collections. University of Arizona Library Special Collections: University of Arizona Library.
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  A written version of this presentation was made available at the on-line media outlet, Barriozona, available on-line at the URL above. See also:http://tucson.com/news/local/neto-s-tucson-mining-s-history-interwoven-with-arizona-s/article_b7dd0cdf-4251-55f0-89c6-ad182d8f700a.html
• O'Leary, A. O. (2012, 2012-04-01). Engaging students in service learning projects with social justice aims. National Association of Chicano/a Scholars Annual Meeting. Chicago ILL: National Association of Chicano/a Scholars.
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  This paper was part of a panel organized with other faculty members at the University of Arizona and other universities.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2012, 2012-11-01). In the Footsteps of Spirits: Migrant Women's Testimonials in the Time of Heightened Border Enforcement. International Colloquium/Coloquio Internacional: Sustainable Development. North/South: Border Dialogues. University of Arizona (Nov 8th): Office of Global Initiatives The University of Arizona and Colegio de la Frontera.
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  For this presentation, I discussed my research of women migrants on the border, and raised issues of sustainable development based on the neoliberal policies that are aggravating displacement among rural populations in Mexico.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Montoya-Zavala, E. C. (2012, 2012-04-01). Estrategias empresariales de inmigrantes indocumentadas en el contexto Politicas anti-inmigratorias y desempleo en Tucson y Phoenix.. Primer Coloquio Internacional. Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico: Colegio de Sonora..
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  This presentation highlighted research undertaken as part of Visiting Scholar Erika Montoya's CONACYT project. Paper was written collaboratively with Erika Montoya, Visiting scholar from the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Sanchez, A. (2012, 2012-04-01). Mixed Immigration Status Households in the Context of Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Policies. Centro de Investigacion sobre America del Norte (CISAN) de la Universidad Autołnoma de Mexico (UNAM). Centro de Investigacion sobre America del Norte (CISAN) de la Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).
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  This presentation was in connection with the publication of a book on Anti-immigrant sentiment: In Antiimigrant sentiments, actions and policies in North America and the European Union,
• O'Leary, A. O., Raquel, R., & Halsteadt, C. (2012, 2012-11-01). When Death Comes Knocking: Geography, Enforcement, and Civic Engagement in Efforts to Indentify and enumerate the dead along the U.S. Mexico Border. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco: American Anthropological Association.
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  Invited Panel organized for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov. 20-22, 2012. For this paper we examine the process by which immigrants are demonized as part of the rise in support for proposed anti-immigrant public policies to understand how cultural violence is manifested against immigrants. We analyzed user comments responding to a news item about migrant deaths in a major newspaper. The content was analyzed in terms of framing, conveying how immigrants were being regarded. The results show that those expressing empathy for the plight of migrants in this community of users appeared are a numerical minority. This devaluation of humanitarian concern is an important factor in analyzing civic group formation around controversial issues. At the heart of cultural violence is a mindset that works to justify other forms of violence, such as personal violence or structural violence. This mindset is a necessary component for accepting economic disparity as natural, and for tolerating the physical and personal violence against the marginalized or delegitimized other.My Role: Co-author of the paper and member of a panel organized by Robin Reineke, member of our research team and Doctoral student in Anthropology.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2011, 2011-03-01). Chicana/o Students Respond to Arizona's Anti-Ethnic Studies Bill, SB 1108: Civic Engagement, Ethnic Identity, and Well-being.. Arizona Hispanic School Administrators Association Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Hispanic School Administrators Association.
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  I presented on the research (conducted in collaboration with Andrea Romero) on Ethnic Studies and student well-being. My role for this event was Key note Speaker.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2011, 2011-03-01). Immigrant Women & Renegotiated Reproduction & Health Services -Access on the Margins of the State. SBS Immigration Week. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: SBS College.
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  This presentation highlighted recent research on immigration. The event was opened to the public.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2011, 2011-04-01). Killing me Softly: Immigrant Women and Renegotiated Reproduction and Health Services -Access on the Margins of the State. Society for Applied Anthropology. Seattle, WA,: Society for Applied Anthropology.
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  This panel examined violence and immigration. My role: member of a panel
• O'Leary, A. O. (2011, 2011-05-01). Access to Health Services for Immigrant Women Acceso a servicios de salud reproductiva para mujeres migrantes. Arizona Burning: DuPaul University, Chicago. DuPaul University and Casa Michoacan, Chicago, ILL: DuPaul University and Casa Michoacan.
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  This was a two day event that included presentations at both DuPaul University in Chicago, and one at the community organization that serves immigrant communities, Casa Michoacan. Presenters from the Save Ethnic Studies teachers were also there. The Community forum at Casa Michoacan was in the heart of the Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago, at a community center that supports immigrant communities.This panel discussion included collaboration with Erika Montoya, Ph.D., visiting scholar at the MAS department from the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa. Type of Presentation: Community Outreach;
• O'Leary, A. O. (2011, 2011-10-01). Engaging students in service learning projects with social justice aims. Ford Foundation Fellows Conference. Anaheim, CA: Ford Foundation.
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  Panel entitled: Community Partnerships in Teaching and Research. Ford Foundation Fellows Conference. October 14-15, 2011. This was a collaborative activity with faculty members at other universities: Theresa Delgadillo, Ohio State University, and Andrea Grimes Parker, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Montoya-Zavala, E. C. (2011, 2011-11-01). La vida laboral de las mexicanas indocumentadas en Arizona. Politicas de repliegue de la inmigraciĂłn y las voces de mujeres inmigrantes”. Tercer Coloquio de Migracion Internacional: Las migraciones regionales y extra-regionales en, hacia y desde Latinoamerica y el Caribe: Entre el Mito y La Realidad. San Miguel de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico: Instituto de Migracion Nacional Mexicana.
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  This paper presented collaborative research on immigrant women business owners, and anti-immigrant laws in Arizona.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Montoya-Zavala, E. C. (2011, 2012-03-01). Mexicanas indocumentadas en Arizona: Las politicas antiiinmigrante. Social Dialogue: Transborder Human Development in the AZ-Sonora Region. Nogales, Sonora: Office of Global Initiatives The University of Arizona.
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  The conference was organized by several border universities, including the UofA. The program shows this listing as well as participants from each. My role: Co author of paper and co-presenter, with Erika Montoya-Zavala, a visiting scholar from Sinaloa at MAS conducting research funded by CONACYT.;
• O'Leary, A. O., & Romero, A. J. (2011, 2011-04-01). The Effect of Anti-Ethnic Studies bills on student's health (with Andrea Romero). The Real Story. Kiva Auditorium, University of Arizona: Roberto Rodriguez, as part of his Red/Brown Journalism class..
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  This was a conference organized by another faculty member in our unit in response to the attack on TUSD's ethnic studies. My role: Co-presenter
• O'Leary, A. O., Valdez-Gardea, G. C., & Sanchez, A. (2011, 2011-05-01). Estudio Binacional de Mujeres Inmigrantes: El Continuum de Salud Reproductiva en la Frontera Mexico-EEUU. III Encuentro Internacional Migracion y Ninez Migrante. Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico: Colegio de Sonora..
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  The presentation and paper was in Spanish. Attached are both, recognition for my role as discussant during the Plenary session, and the program that shows the presentation noted above. My role: Lead author of the paper prepared for presentation.
• Oleary, A. M. (2010, 2010-04-01). Of Coyotes, Crossings, and Cooperation: Social Capital and Women's Migration at the Margins of the State.. Association for Applied Anthropology,. Merida, Mexico.
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  ;Your Role: Panel member ;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: This paper was part of a panel organized by Carlos Velez Ibanez (ASU);Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2010, 2010-11-01). Neoliberalizing (Re)production: Women, Migration, and Family Planning in the Margins of the State. American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA.
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  ;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: This was part of a panel I organized for the meeting. ;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M., & Romero, A. (2010, 2010-05-01). Undergraduate Student's Responses to the Arizona Senate “Anti-Ethnic Studies” Bill 1108. Colloquio Internacional. Nogales, Sonora.
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  The presentation discussed some of the historical context for Chicano Studies, and research findings in a study (with Andrea Romero) on student responses to the anti-ethnic studies law proposed and passed in 2010;Your Role: panel member;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Part of a binational panel presentation ;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2009, 2009-02-01). Mixing Metaphores of Gender, Border (In)Security, and Life on the Frontlines of U.S. Immigration Politics. Western States COmmunication Association COnvention. Phoenix, AZ.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Invited: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: This was a "keynote Speaker Panel" in which I participated as one of two speakers from the Colacion de Derechos Humanos. ;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Oleary, A. M. (2009, 2009-02-01). “Encuentros mortales en la frontera: Mujeres inmigrantes en situaciĂłn de abandono,”. VII Congreso Centroamericano de AntropologĂ­a, “La AntropologĂ­a en Centro America: Reflexiones y Perspectivas”. San CristĂłbal de las Casas, Chiapas, MĂ©xico.
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• Oleary, A. M. (2009, 2009-10-01). Binational reponses to Health Care. 9th Annual Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Health. Buffalo Thunder Hotel, Santa Fe, NM.
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  October 6th, 2009. ;Your Role: Speaker on Panel on "access to health care." Binational Policy Forum was sponsored by the Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico. ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Oleary, A. M. (2009, 2009-12-01). “Borderscapes of Practice: Im/migrant Women and the U.S.-Mexico Reproductive Health Care Continuum”. annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association,. Philadelphia, PA.
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  This paper presents findings from a binational research project designed to document and analyze the reproductive health care strategies of im/migrant women and their access to reproductive health care services. ;Invited: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Paper presented was part of panel, "Ethnographic and Theoretical Perspectives on Resistance and Activism at Borderscapes".;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2009, 2010-03-01). MIGRATION AND WOMEN ON THE U.S.- MEXICO BORDER: ENVIRONMENT, ACCESS, AND THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE “CONTINUUM”. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  ;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2009, 2010-03-01). “ABCs of Migration: C is for Coyotes”. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Merida, Yucatan.
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  ;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: paper presented as part of the a panel entitled: “Social Capital among Mexicanos in the 21st Century in the Transborder Region and Beyond: The Limits and Understandings of its Distribution.” Organizer: Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez (ASU);Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M., & Sanchez, A. (2009, 2009-10-01). A Multidisciplinary Binational Study of Migrant Women in the Context of U.S.-Mexico Border Health Care. Health Initiatives of the Americas (HIA) and Programa de Investigacion de Migracion y Salud (PIMSA). Buffalo Thunder Hotel, Santa Fe, NM.
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  October 5, 22009. PIMSA Grantee meeting of Binational Teams presentations about the current state of their projects.;Your Role: Presentor;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: This was a presentation on research that was completed with the help of a student research assistant. ;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-01-01). Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind: Gender and Migration in a Time of Increased Border (In)Security. : Border Regions in Transitions IX Conference, North American and European Border Regions in Comparative Perspective: Markets, States and Border Communities. Victoria, BC, Canada.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Refereed: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-01-01). Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind: Gender and Migration in a Time of Increased Border (In)Security. : Fourth Annual Santa Cruz Border Issues Fair,. Desert Hills Lutheran Church, Green Valley, AZ.
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• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-02-01). Coloquio Internacional: Encuentro Mujeres Migrantes en el Cruce. : Coloquio Internacional Sobre Migracion y Derecho: Los derechos de los migrantes en transito Sonora-Arizona. Altar, Sonora, Mexico.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Type of Presentation: Panel Discussant (Reporting Research);
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-02-01). Encuentros mortales en la frontera: Mujeres inmigrantes en situaciĂłn de abandono. : II Congreso Internacional Migraciones Globales: II Congreso Internacional Migraciones Globales: Experiencias Regionales y Enseñanzas para MĂ©xico. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico.
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  ;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-03-01). Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind: Gender and Migration in a Time of Increased Border (In)Security. : Arizona State convention of American Assoc of University Women (AAUW),. Green Valley, Arizona.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-03-01). Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind: Gender and Migration in a Time of Increased Border (In)Security. : La vida no vale nada: No Vale Nada la Vida. The Southwest Center and Binational Migration Institute. Tucson, AZ.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-10-01). Desarraigo de niños: Un resumen del impacto de operativos inmigratorios en menores.. : Seminario Niñez Migrante Internacional. Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
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  ;Your Role: author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-10-01). Experiencing the Global-Local: Migrant Women Testimonios and Political, Intercultural, and Pedagogical Challenges in the Borderlands. : Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence: A Conference for K-16 Educators.. Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL). University of Arizona.
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  ;Your Role: author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-10-01). Women at the Intersection: The struggle for Family Reunification at the Margins of the U.S. and Mexico Border. : Community Report: What you taught us about Migration and Health., Binational Migration Institute (BMI). El Pueblo Neighborhood Center, Tucson ,AZ.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Type of Presentation: Community Outreach;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-11-01). Encuentros mortales en la frontera: Mujeres inmigrantes en situaciĂłn de abandono. : La Red Del Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes, Norte, MĂ©xico y Centro AmĂ©rica, Congreso Internacional Sobre MigraciĂłn: Los Procesos de detenciĂłn, deportaciĂłn y ReincerciĂłn de migrantes. Universidad Rafael LandĂ­var de Guatemala, Campus Central, Ciudad de Guatemala.
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  ;Your Role: author;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-11-01). In the Footsteps of Spirits: Migrant Women's Testimonials in the Time of Heightened Border Enforcement. : American Association of University Women (Phoenix Chapter) meeting. Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ.
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  ;Your Role: author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
• Oleary, A. M. (2008, 2008-11-01). The ABCs of Unauthorized Border Crossing Costs: Apprehension, Bajadores, and Coyotes. : American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
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  ;Your Role: author of individual paper in addition to panel co-organizer;Invited: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Organized panel consisted of researcher from various other universities;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M., McClelland, D. J., MLS, ., Rodriguez, K., Redondo, F., Rosales, C., MD, ., MS, ., Garcia, G., Ingram, M., MPH, ., Guernsey, J., Rubio-Goldsmith, R., JD, ., MA, ., Carvajal, S., PhD, ., MPH, ., O'Leary, A., & PhD, . (2008, 2008-10-01). Presentation No. 178433: “Farmworkers at the US-Mexico Border: Challenges to human rights in a militarized environment S-Mexico Border: Challenges to human rights in a militarized environment.”. : APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition. San Diego, CA.
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  ;Your Role: Co-author;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Authors include members of collaborating community organizations associated with the NIOSH research.;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
• Oleary, A. M., O'Leary, A. O., & Ciria, G. (2008, 2008-10-01). Un Estudio Binacional de Mujeres Inmigrantes en el Contexto de un Continuum de Cuidado de Salud Reproductiva en la Frontera MĂ©xico-EU.. : Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA)/Programa de InvestigaciĂłn sobre MigraciĂłn y Salud. VIII Semana Binacional de Salud: Foro de PolĂ­ticas PĂşblicas en Salud y MigraciĂłn. Zacatecas, Zac. MĂ©xico.
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  This was a midterm report for grantees receiving funding from the Programa de Migracion y Salud.;Your Role: Co-author;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaboration with PIMSA CO-PI;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M., Redondo, F., Garcia, G., Madrigal, L., Rodriguez, K., McClelland, D. J., MLS, ., Rosales, C., MD, ., MS, ., Ingram, M., MPH, ., Rubio-Goldsmith, R., JD, ., MA, ., Guernsey, J., O'Leary, A., PhD, ., & Carvajal, S. (2008, 2008-10-01). Roundtable Presentation No. 184564: “Promotoras role in community mobilization and awareness of immigration and human rights for farmworkers and their families at the US-Mexico border”. : APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition. San Diego, CA.
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  ;Your Role: Co-author;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Authors include members of collaborating community organizations associated with the NIOSH research.;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;Type of Presentation: Listed as co-author on this presentation;
• Oleary, A. M. (2007, 2007-05-01). Mujeres en el Cruce: Mapping Family Separation/Reunification at a Time of Border (In)Security. : I Encuentro Internacional: MigraciĂłn y Niñez Migrante. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
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  ;Refereed: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
• Oleary, A. M. (2007, 2007-07-01). Structural Violence, U.S. Border Enforcement and Unauthorized Women Migrants in the context of Two UN Conventions. : American Association of University Women (AAUW) National Convention.. Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
• Oleary, A. M. (2007, 2007-09-01). Human Rights of Immigrants: US/Mexico Focus. : Amnesty International Conference. United World College, Montezuma, NM..
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  ;Your Role: author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Oleary, A. M. (2007, 2007-11-01). Ethical Dilemmas Involved in Ethnographic Research with Repatriated Women. : Forum on Research Ethics and Undocumented Migrants. University Medical Center, Room 8403, University of Arizona.
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  This event was organized by the Binational Migration Institute and College of Public Health, with the support ofthe National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and NIH Grant MD000155-5;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Panel Discussant (Reporting Research);
• Oleary, A. M. (2007, 2007-11-01). Mujeres en el Cruce Mapping Family Separation/Reunification at the Intersection of Migrant Mobility and Border Enforcement.. : American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.
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  In this paper I discuss some of the findings of my study of the encounters between female migrants and immigration enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border. An objective of the research is to ascertain a more accurate picture of women temporarily suspended in the intersection of diametrically opposed processes, immigration enforcement and transnational mobility. Of the many issues that have emerged from this research, family separation is most palpable. This suggests a deeply entrenched relationship between immigration enforcement and the transnationalization of family ties. ;Your Role: Author;Invited: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2006, 2006-03-01). Petit Apartheid on the Border: An Analysis of Community Organization Data Documenting Work force Abuses of the Undocumented. Oxford Roundtable on Diversity and Society. Oxford University, UK..
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  I argue that the routine harsh and harmful treatment to which undocumented workers are systematically subjected is similarly a product of social attitudes that methodologically deprive them of employment stability and social progress and is therefore apartheid-like. Narratives from the Derechos archives flesh out the social spaces conducive to microaggression, and at a broader level, make visible the contradictions between employment practices and immigration law. Although too often in ignored in state and national immigration debates, the voices emerging from these narratives illustrate how differences and inequality are informally enforced by way of employer-employee exchanges. ;Your Role: Author;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2006, 2006-04-01). In Labor: Undocumented Migrant Women and Laboring for social Justice on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Universal City, Los Angeles, CA. : Pacific Sociological Association.
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  ;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2006, 2006-06-01). Women at the Intersection: Immigration Enforcement and Transnational Spaces on on the U.S.-Mexico Border. . National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies Annual Meeting. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
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  Paper presented the theoretical development in transnational research that was the basis for the Fulbright and SBSRI sponsored research from earlier in the year. ;Your Role: Author;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Oleary, A. M. (2006, 2006-11-01). Undisciplined Ethnographies, Boundaries and Borders. : American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA.
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  In this prestentaion, I argue that “undisciplined” ethnographies such as this reflect the need for the analytical tools to understand the reality of lives in upheaval and the need to examine movements that defy and destabilize borders and boundaries. Constructs such as “intersection” and space-as simultaneously literal and metaphorical geographies that transform social subjectivities-prove essential to locating and defining realities that do not conform to international borders. In this way, I hope to contribute to the reformulation of approaches and constructs that help us imagine and then analyze intersections, intersecting spaces, and shared spaces, and the resultant reconfiguration of gendered experiences, lives, and identities on the U.S. Mexico border.;Your Role: panel member;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Presentation is part of a panel organized by Monica Russel y Rodriguez (Northwestern);Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;

Reviews

• Oleary, A. M. (2020. Voices from the edge. Transcultural narratives of identity and belonging(pp Available OnLine). http://ffc.twu.edu/issue_10-1/rev_O%E2%80%99Leary_10-1.html.
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  Invitation to write a review of three films about immigration: I Was Born in Mexico, But… (Corey Ohama, 2013), Arizona: Resisting SB1070 Immigration Law (NDWA & Puente Movement, 2011), and Two Americans: Fighting Deportation in Arizona (Daniel DeVivo and Valeria Fernández, 2016). Available at http://ffc.twu.edu/issue_10-1/rev_O%E2%80%99Leary_10-1.html
• O'Leary, A. O. (2014. Book Review: I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty(pp 147-149). The Latin Americanist, Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages: 147–149.
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  Reviewed the book: I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty, by Patricia Zavella. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, 352 pages. Available electronically June 2013.

Case Studies

• Oleary, A. M. (2022. Fulbright Research Case Study (Update): Poblaciones Compartidas y Migracion de Retorno
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Others

• Oleary, A. M. (2023, Nov 4). Plenary:  The Clifton Morenci Copper Strike. Town of Clifton “Sesquicentenial Founder’s Day” Celebration..
• Oleary, A. M. (2022, July 13-16). Panel Discussant & Panel Moderator: “Race and white supremacy as categories of legal and political analysis in courts and schools.” . Law & Society Global Conference.
• Oleary, A. M. (2022, Nov. 6-8). Panel Organizer
  “The ‘Mainstreaming’ of Ethnic Studies: One step forward and Two Steps Back?” 
  . National Ethnic Studies Association Annual Conference.
• Oleary, A. M. (2017, October). Opening the door to educational opportunity. Arizona Daily Star. : http://tucson.com/opinion/local/anna-ochoa-o-leary-opening-the-door-to-educational-opportunity/article_c064344f-7fa4-5734-847b-6229976c5ff2.html
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  Opinion Editorial
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, February). Issuing Dreamers drivers’ licenses tied to productive future. Arizona Daily Star.
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  This is the 2nd of 7 opinion editorials written as a Public Voices Thought Leader Fellow for 2014-2015.In this piece, I criticize Arizona’s new state Attorney General Mark Brnovich who announced he would renew efforts to take driver’s licenses out of the hands of “Dreamers.” Among other things, I argue that allowing Dreamers to get a driver’s license will not only make the roads safer for all of us, it will also help integrate youthful aspirants into America’s economic future.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, July). Trump’s immigrant-bashing omits that business owners like him are to blame. The Hill.
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  This is the 5th of 7 opinion editorials written as a Public Voices Thought Leader Fellow for 2014-2015.In this piece, I show that Donald Trump is wrong to blame immigrants for the nation’s woes by pointing out that it is business owners like him, those benefiting from trade agreements, who are guilty of creating the conditions that brought immigrants to our door in the first place.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, March). Obama comparte un legado con Roosevelt. Vívelo Hoy.
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  This is the 4th of 7 opinion editorials written as a Public Voices Thought Leader Fellow for 2014-2015.In this piece (my first Op Ed written in Spanish), I draw on accounts and early lessons I learned growing up about the progressive politics of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and make some comparisons with the the current, Barack Obama presidency. I make a case for the importance of social safety net programs such as those seen in the FDR presidency for children of immigrants growing up economically disadvantaged.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, March). Women’s History Month must honor Latinas. Latina Lista.
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  This is the 3rd of 7 opinion editorials written as a Public Voices Thought Leader Fellow for 2014-2015.In this piece, I raise the issue that resources about the contribution by Latinas or Mexican American women in particular are absent at the website, womenshistorymonth.gov.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2015, September). Finding Sacagewea in El Salvador. Truth Out.
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  This is the 7th of 7 opinion editorials written as a Public Voices Thought Leader Fellow for 2014-2015.In this piece, a recent trip to El Salvador is highlighted to illustrate the devastation brought about by free trade policies in Mexico and Central America, and its connection to current migration of unaccompanied minors. Finding the Sacagawea on a US dollar coin widely used in El Salvador becomes a metaphor for the U.S. role in how our nation's interests in expanding our economy is tied to growing violence in Central America, and the flight of so many women and children from there.
• O'Leary, A. O., & Aguirre, E. M. (2015, September). Planned Parenthood Is Crucial for Immigrant Women. Womens ENews.
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  This is the 6th of 7 opinion editorials written as a Public Voices Thought Leader Fellow for 2014-2015.This co-authored piece (with Edna Aguirre, associate development director with Planned Parenthood Arizona ) was written in response to the attacks on Planned Parenthood. It highlights the international work of Planned Parenthood and how important it is for immigrant women. I refer to my research to illustrate how important it is for immigrant women to have services such as the ones provided by Planned Parenthood.
• O'Leary, A. O. (2014, November). Family values and deportation don't go together. The Conversation.
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  This is the 1st of 7 Opinion Editorials written and published as a Public Voices Fellow, 2014-2015In this piece, I highlight my research in light of President Obama’s plan for deferred action for certain undocumented immigrant parents that promises to bring relief to mixed-status families living in fear of deportation.
• Romero, A. J., & O'Leary, A. O. (2011, Spring). Undergraduate Student Responses to Arizona's Anti-Ethnic Studies Bill: Implications for Mental Health.. Chicano Studies Center Policy Brief, Berkeley: University of California.
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  This is a policy brief highlighting research findings published in an article published earlier, Chicana/o Students' Engagement with the Anti-Ethnic Studies Bill 1108: Civic Engagement, Ethnic Identity and Well-being, in the journal, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Type of Publication: Policy Brief
• Oleary, A. M. (2010, Oct). Los Mandamientos Judicales Impuestos pro la Legilatura de Arizona: Sus implicaciones para la participacion civica de los inmigrantes. Wilson Center Working papers.
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  Series on "Context Matters." A study of the practices of civic engagement and political participation of Latino immigrants in the United States. Mexico Institute, Wilson Center Working papers. Series on Latino Migrant Civic and Political Participation.Washington, D.C.
• Oleary, A. M. (2009). Arizona's Legislative-Imposed Injunctions: Implications for Immigrant Civic and Political Participation..
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  ;Your Role: Contributor to the series of publications on the above topic.;Full Citation: O'Leary, Anna Ochoa. 2009. Arizona's Legislative-Imposed Injunctions: Implications for Immigrant Civic and Political Participation. Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Available on-line www.wilsoncenter.org.;Electronic: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: This working paper series is part of a larger project about Latino and Latina Political and Civic participation. ;
• Oleary, A. M., & Valdez-Gardea, G. C. (2009). A Multidisciplinary Binational Study of Migrant Women in the Context of a U.S. Mexico Border Reproductive Health Care Continuum.
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  This is an unpublished manuscript, report to funding agency in compliance with grant requirements. ;Your Role: Co PI and Co Author;Full Citation: O'Leary, Anna Ochoa, and Valdez-Gardea, Gloria Ciria (2009). A Multidisciplinary Binational Study of Migrant Women in the Context of a U.S. Mexico Border Reproductive Health Care Continuum.______________Estudio Binacional de Mujeres Inmigrantes en la Frontera MĂ©xico-Estados Unidos: IntegraciĂłn Social y el Continuo de Salud Reproductiva.Final Narrative Report. Unpublished Manuscript. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: This is report authored jointly, about research conducted collaboratively.;