In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Professor Lisa Sun-Hee Park, author of the "migration" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Park discusses the challenging issues facing migrant communities, the way immigration history gets deployed in US society, and the urgent need for feminist and queer methodologies for understanding migration processes and migrant experiences.
Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park (she/her) is Chair and Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org)
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee, Entitled To Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform. New York: NYU Press, 2011. (https://nyupress.org/9780814768013/entitled-to-nothing/)
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee and David Naguib Pellow, The Slums of Aspen Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden. New York: NYU Press, 2011. (https://nyupress.org/9780814768037/the-slums-of-aspen/")
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