ANTH/WMGS 326 Issues in the Anthropology of Kinship
Winter 2018
Mar. 28: Violence, Divorce:
Required reading: Salcido, Olivia; Madelaine Adelman (2004) “‘He Has me tied with the blessed and damned papers’: Undocumented-immigrant battered women in Phoenix, Arizona.” Human Organization. 63(2): 162-172.

Salcido and Adelman:

- how are other identities, statuses, inequalities linked to domestic violence?
- what are central elements of context in case Salcido and Adelman study?
    - how do the political and economic histories of Mexico and the US affect why and how people move across that border?
        - how have US immigration policies changed over time?

- in this case, how does cross-border migration affect kinship, and how does kinship affect cross-border migration?
    - why do Mexicans go to the US and how are they viewed there?
    - how does legal citizenship relate to this migration?
    - how do kin support decisions to migrate? How might they force decisions to migrate? How might they impede one from migrating?
        -how is migration influenced by gender, race and age?
    - how does vulnerability relate to domestic abuse?
        - how does the way Mexicans are viewed in the US discourage women from seeking resources for victims of violence?
        - how might the activities undocumented women engage in to make a living affect their ability to stay in the US or get citizenship?
        -  how might immigration law help to bring about situations in which illegal immigrant women are abused?
        -  how might criminal justice law help to bring about situations in which illegal immigrant women are abused?
- how might citizenship in general affect kinship?


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