IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTHCARE ACCESS
This research explores how shifts in health policy, namely the Massachusetts Health Reform (Chapter 58), the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and attempts to repeal Obamacare transformed immigrants’ healthcare access in Boston from 2012 to 2019. I conducted interviews with over 200 immigrants (Brazilians, Dominicans, and Salvadorans), healthcare providers, and immigrant and health advocacy organization employees to understand how race, ethnicity, and legal status (also known as “racialized legal status) influenced their ability to obtain coverage and navigate the complicated healthcare system. Despite living in the capital of the state that was the epicenter of health reform, immigrants still struggled to access coverage and care. Furthermore, the intensifying anti-immigrant and racist socio-political climate over this time period also deterred immigrants from seeking care despite having coverage.
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Excluded and Frozen Out: Unauthorized Immigrants' Access to Care after Healthcare Reforms
Falling through the Coverage Cracks: How Documentation Status Minimizes Immigrants’ Access to Health Care
Still Left Out: Health Care Stratification under the Affordable Care Act
Health Care, Immigrants and Minorities: Lessons from the Affordable Care Act in the United States
My Life Was Filled with Constant Anxiety': Anti-Immigrant Discrimination, Undocumented Status, and their Mental Health Implications for Brazilian Immigrants
What Healthcare Reform Means for Immigrants: A Comparison of the Massachusetts and Affordable Care Act Health Reform Policies
MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTRUCTIONS OF RACE
Inspired by research I conducted with Brazilians who migrated to the US and permanently returned to their hometown in Governor Valadares, Brazil, I have explored how moving across borders transforms people’s understanding of racial categories, relations, and inequality. While I wrote about many of these findings in my book, Race on the Move, I have written other articles and book chapters exploring transnational conceptions of race and migration in the US, Brazil and Western Europe. I believe it is difficult to understand US race relations without doing so in a global and comparative historical context.
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Race, Phenotype, and National Identity in Brazil and the United States
Double Consciousness in the 21st Century: Du Boisian Theory and the Problem of Racialized Legal Status
How Does Racial Democracy Exist in Brazil?: Perceptions from Brazilians in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Whitening Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Documentation Status as Brightened Boundaries of Exclusion in the U.S. and Europe
A (Black) American Trapped in a ('Non-Black') Brazilian Body: Reflections on Navigating Multiple Identities in International Fieldwork.”
CULTURAL and IDENTITY TAXATION IN THE ACADEMY
This research has explored how the extra diversity-related service expectations placed upon faculty of color and women faculty lead to them feeling "taxed" because of their social identity, which education scholar Amado Padilla referred to as “cultural taxation.” Building on that concept, my colleague Laura Hirshfield and I developed the concept of “identity taxation” to account for how underrepresented faculty of other demographics (e.g. LGBTQ, women in the sciences) may experience similar taxation. Cultural and identity taxation can negatively affect faculty health as well as their tenure and promotion prospects.
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Why Don't You Get Somebody New To Do It: Identity and Cultural Taxation in the Academy
Reexamining Identity Taxation, Racism, and Sexism in the Academy (Journal Special Issue)
We Need A Woman, We Need A Black Woman': Gender and Cultural Taxation in the Academy
Reexamining Racism, Sexism, and Identity Taxation in the Academy