#  Marla Andrea Ramírez 

 

 



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Marla Andrea Ramírez is a social historian who specializes in oral history, the Mexican repatriation program, social and legal histories of Mexican migrations, and gendered migration experiences. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. She holds a PhD in Chicana and Chicano studies with an emphasis on feminist studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and previously held a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies. Her current book project, Contested Illegality: The Mexican Repatriation Program and Prolonged Consequences Across Three Generations, examines the immigration policies of the Great Depression era, focusing on the experiences of Mexican repatriation and banishment of US-citizen children of Mexican descent that tore apart thousands of families across the US-Mexico border. She is the author of “The Making of Mexican Illegality: Immigration Exclusions Based on Race, Class Status, and Gender,” which appeared in New Political Science: A Journal of Politics & Culture in 2018. Her forthcoming article, “The Legacy of Mexican Repatriation: Negotiating Gender, Intimacy, and Family Formation in the Borderlands,” will appear in a special issue on “Gender and Intimacy Across the US-Mexico Borderlands” in Pacific Historical Review.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Ethnic Studies](/disciplines/ethnicity-migration-rights) [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2018 - 2019](/fellowship-year/2018-2019)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)