Faculty Directory

Books:

Oliveira, G. (2018). “Motherhood Across Borders: Mexican Immigrants and their Children in Mexico and in New York City”. New York: NYU Press.

Reviews:

Peña, Vanessa & Bettney, Esther. (2019). Book Review Motherhood Across Borders. Anthropology & Education Quarterly.

Inmaculada M García-Sánchez, Motherhood Across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York. Migration Studies mnz040, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnz040

Peer Reviewed Articles:

Oliveira, G., Bacon-Chang, Christopher & Cho, Eunhye*. (under review). “Parallel Perceptions: Teachers and Parents Perspectives on a Dual Language Program”. Bilingual Research Journal.

Oliveira, G., Lima Becker, Mariana* & Bacon, Chris*. (2020). “Eu sei, I know”: Equity and Immigrant Experience in a Portuguese-English Dual Language Program”. TESOL Quarterly.

Oliveira, G. (2019). “Transnational Mothers and School-related Decisions” The Urban Review.

Oliveira, G. (2019). “Here and There”: Children and Youth’s Perspectives of Borders in Mexico-United States Migration. Children & Society, Vol. 33, Issue 6, pp 540-555.

Oliveira, G. (2019). “Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women’s Work in New York City”. Women’s Studies International Forum, Volume 75, July–August 2019. 

Bottema-Beutel, K., Oliveira, G., Miguel, J. & Cohen, S. (2019). “Question-Response-Evaluation Sequences in the Home Interactions of a Bilingual Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder”. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.

Castro Samayoa, A., Wargo, J. & Oliveira, G. (2019). “Data’s (In)Humanism: Re/presentations of State, Institutions, and Practices in Contemporary Educational Re/search”. Qualitative Inquiry.

Oliveira, G. (2018). “Childhood and Maternal Separation Narratives in Immigrant Families”. Neos, American Anthropological Association.

Bartlett, L., Oliveira, G. & Ungemah, L. (2018). “Cruel Optimism: Migration and Schooling for Dominican Newcomer Immigrant Youth”. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Volume 49, Issue 4 December 2018 Pages 444-461.

Oliveira, G. & Bartlett, L. (2018). “Migration and Literacy across the Americas”. Revista Decisio.

Oliveira, G. (2017). "Between Mexico and New York City: Transnational Educational Aspirations and Social Trajectories of Separated Siblings”. Anthropology and Education Quarterly Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 159–175, ISSN 0161-7761.

Anzures, A., Mayorga, R., G. Oliveira, Bartlett, L., Kallery, C., Carvajal, C. & Martinez-Martinez, V. (2017). “Negotiating contradictions: educación among Dominican transnational mothers in New York City”. Ethnography and Education Vol. 12, Iss. 3, 2017.

Bartlett, L., Rodriguez, D. & Oliveira, G. (2015). “Migration and education: Sociocultural Perspectives”. Educação e Pesquisa., São Paulo, v.4.

Chapters in Books:

Oliveira, G. & Kentor, C.*(2020). Refugees and Higher Education. Brill Sense. CIHE Handbook.

Oliveira, G. (2020). “Transnational Motherhood”. The Routledge Companion to Motherhood. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Andrea O’Reilly and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles (Eds). Taylor & Francis.

Oliveira, G. & Varenne, H.. (2019). Mothers, Educating Themselves About Their Children’s Futures in Mexico and the United States in Hervé Varenne’s Educating in Life Ethnographies of Challenging New Normals, Routledge New York.

Oliveira, G. & Becker, M*. (2019). “Immigrant Latina Youth and their Education Experiences in the United States”. Chapter in Parker, Maureen, Education as a Panacea for Refugee Youth: Transitioning from Conflict to the Classroom, Routledge New York.

Michel, S. & Oliveira, G. (2017). “The Double Lives of Transnational Mothers” Chapter in Michel, Sonya & Ergas, Yasmin, eds. Reassembling Motherhood. New York: Columbia University Press.

Oliveira, G. (2017).  “Caring for Your Children: How Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of Motherhood”. Chapter in Michel, Sonya & Peng, Ito. 2017. Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care.: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim. Palgrave McMillan.

Oliveira, G. (2013). “The Consequences of Mexican Maternal Migration on Children Left Behind.” Chapter in Bartlett, Lesley and Ghaffar-Kucher, Ameena, eds. Refugees, Immigrants, and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion. New York: Routledge Press.

Online Reports/ Opinion:

Oliveira, G. (June, 2019). For Immigrants at the Border, It's About the Children. Common Dreams, available at: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/07/immigrants-border-its-about-children

Oliveira, G. (December 2018). Families Separated By Economic Borders. Brian Leher Show. WNYC/NPR. Listen here: https://www.wnyc.org/story/families-separated-economic-borders/

Invited Interview for Boston College’s Library Series (November 2018). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_TUUA-aHAw

Invited Interview for The Heights. “Gabrielle Oliveira Tells the Stories Between the Statistics”. The Heights, October 28 2018. https://bcheights.com/2018/10/28/G.-oliveira/

Invited Interview for PBS. “Psychological Damage Inflicted By Parent-Child Separation is Deep, Long-Lasting: Here's what happens in the brain and the body when a child is forcibly separated from his or her parents.” Allison Eck, Wednesday June 20, 2018. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/psychological-damage-inflicted-by-parent-child-separation-is-deep-long-lasting/

Oliveira, G. (November, 2016). “Mexican Maternal Migration and Remittances: effects on schooling and education”. Migration Policy Institute, The Source. Available at: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/impact-mexican-maternal-migration-children%E2%80%99s-future-ambitions

Oliveira, G. (2013). “Caring for them all”. The Globalist. May 5. https://www.theglobalist.com/caring-for-them-all-mexican-migrant-mothers-and-their-children/

Oliveira, G. (2012). “Staying Connected: Transnational Care-Constellations”. American Anthropological Association, Anthropology News (AN). Borders and Boundaries February issue.

Oliveira, G. and Lowe, R. (2007). “Microfinanças e o Meio Ambiente” Página 22, volume 9, September 2007.

2019                Winner of the Book of the Year Award by the Council of Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association.

2019                Inaugural Winner of the Outstanding Ethnography in Education Book Award for Motherhood Across Borders, NYU Press by University of Pennsylvania Ethnography in Education Forum.

2018                Presidential Fellowship Award Concha Delgado Gaitán. Council of Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association

2018                Best Paper Prize in Skilled Migration at The Migration Conference, Lisbon Portugal: “Learning to Sell: Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women in New York City”

2017                Semi-Finalist Postdoctoral Fellowship National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation

2015                Dissertation Finalist Council of Anthropology and Education – American Anthropological Association.

2019-2020       Postdoctoral Fellowship National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation.

2013-2014       National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship.