ASU Scholar-In-Residence Leo Chavez

Arizona State University’s Comparative Border Studies strategic research initiative will host Leo Chavez as the spring 2013 Scholar-In-Residence for three public lectures Monday, Wednesday and Friday March 18, 20 and 22. Leo Chavez will be speaking on the ASU Tempe and ASU West campuses.

The three public lectures will discuss the following themes: The construction of “anchor babies,”-immigration trends and xenophobia, and aspects of immigration reform. Monday, March 18 lecture, the construction of “anchor babies” and implications for creating a class caste will take place 6-7:30 p.m. in Classroom/Lab/Computer Classroom (CLCC), room 180 on ASU West campus. Wednesday, March 20 lecture, immigration trends and xenophobia will take place 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.  in Institute of Humanities Research (IHR), Social Sciences (SS) Building, Room 109 on ASU Tempe campus. Friday March 22 lecture, From SB 1070 to Anticipating Immigration Reform will take place noon-3:00 p.m. in Memorial Union Room 085, Union Stage on ASU Tempe Campus. Attendees should RSVP at http://borders.asu.edu/public-lectures-leo-chavez.

Professor Leo Chavez received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His research examines various issues related to transnational migration, including immigrant families and households, labor market participation, motivations for migration, the use of medical services, semiotics of visual imagery, and media constructions of “immigrant” and “nation.”

Leo Chavez is the author of Shadow Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Cengage, 3^rd Edition 2013), Covering Immigrations: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (University of California Press 2001), The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press, 2008; 2^nd edition 2013), and has recently published “Undocumented Immigrants and Medical Care: Popular Perceptions and Empirical Realities” in Social Science & Medicine 74 (6): 887-893-2012, and “ Awakening to a Nightmare’: Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5 Generation Latino Immigrants in the United States,” with Robert G. Gonzales in Current Anthropology 53 (3): 255-281,2012.

Comparative Border Studies, within the School of Transborder Studies, is designed to bring scholars, artists and publics together to discuss and debate issues pertaining to geopolitical and cultural borders. For more information, contact Elizabeth Cantú at (979) 492-7502 or Elizabeth.Cantu@asu.edu. Or visit borders.asu.edu.