Kristen Maher
Professor
College of Arts and Letters
Political Science
SDSU
Areas of Expertise
International migration and border politics: San Diego and Tijuana as border cities, migrant labor, immigrant rights, asylum and refugee politics and the borders between urban neighborhoods.
Publications
Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers. 2021. Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of Local Border Oxford University Press.
Megan Lafferty and Kristen Hill Maher. 2020.
“Transnational Intimacy and Economic Precarity of Western
Men in Northeast Thailand,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46, 8: 1629-1646. Kristen Hill Maher and Jesse Elias. 2019.
“Docile, Criminal, and Upwardly Mobile: Visual News Framing
of Mexican Migrants and the Logics of Neoliberal Multiculturalism.” Latino Studies 17, 2: 225-256.
“White Migrant Masculinities in Thailand and the Paradoxes of Western Privilege.” Social and Cultural Geography 15, 4 (2014): 427-448. With Megan Lafferty.
“Urban Image Work: Official and Grassroots Responses to Crisis in Tijuana.” Urban Affairs Review 50, 2 (2014): 244-268. With David Carruthers. Online first, July 2, 2013.
“The Dual Discourse about Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Gender, and a Nationalist Project.” Latin American Politics and Society 48, 1 (2006): 87-116. With Silke Staab.
“Nanny Politics: The Dilemmas of Working Women’s Empowerment in Santiago, Chile.”International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7, 1 ( 2005): 71-88. With Silke Staab.
“Borders and Social Distinction in the Global Suburb.” American Quarterly 56, 3 (2004): 781-806.
“Good Women ‘Ready to Go’: Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 1, 1 (2004): 59-80.
"Globalized Social Reproduction: Immigrant Service Workers and the Citizenship Gap," inPeople Out of Place, Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, eds. Routledge, 2004.
"'Natural Mothers' for Sale: The Construction of Latina Immigrant Identity in Domestic Service Labor Markets." In Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Donna Gabbaccia and Colin Wayne Leach, eds. Routledge, 2004.
“Workers and Strangers: The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear.” Urban Affairs Review 38, 6 (2003): 751-786. Reprinted in Spanish inRenglones (No. 55, Oct-Dec 2003: 72-93),
a Mexican journal on culture and politics.