2017 Project Results
Binational Team Projects
Mujeres migrantes en situación de Calle / Homeless migrant women (Report)
Principal Investigators: Silvia Chavez-Baray, University of Texas at El Paso and Patricia Ravelo Biancas, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)
Funding amount: $20,000
Unauthorized Immigrants, Occupational Injuries and Employment Verification Laws
Policy Brief: Unauthorized immigrants, occupational injuries and employment verification laws (English Spanish)
Principal Investigators: Erin Hamilton, UC Davis, and Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Funding amount: $20,000
Expandilleros retornados a México: necesidades en materia de salud y de integración social (Report)
Principal Investigators: Alana M.W. Lebron, UC Irvine, and Hiram Abel Angel Lara, Universidad de Guadalajara – CUCEA
Funding amount: $20,000
Agricultural Productivity and Worker Health: The Hidden Costs of Extreme Heat
Principal Investigators: David Lopez-Carr, UC Santa Barbara, and Armando Sanchez Vargas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Funding amount: $24,948
Health Risks and Coping Strategies in the Families of Disappeared Border Crossers (Report)
Principal Investigators: Robin C. Reineke, University of Arizona, and Maria Elena Ramos Tovar, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Funding amount: $25,000
Graduate Students
Exploring how immigration policy impacts the health and well-being of children in a rural setting
(Dissertation: Migración es una enfermedad: immigration policies, family separation, chronic fear, and adversity)
By: Andrea Lopez
Institution: UC Merced, Department of Public Health
Funding amount: $4,500
Immigration, Health, and IPV in the US and Mexico: A Transnational Study
By: Flor Avellaneda
Institution: University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work
Funding amount: $5,000
Domestic violence and migration: Mexican immigrant families settled in Santa Rosa, California
By: Paulina Montes de Oca Reyes
Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Sociología
Funding amount: $5,000