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Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

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Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies and Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
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Innovative, sister, advocate

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas’ research examines the experiences of women from the Philippines to understand how gender shapes migration, how states manage migration, how gendered economies operate in globalization and how worker unfreedom is a constitutive element of development. She teaches classes on feminist theory, gender and globalization, intimacy, and gender, sexuality and migration. Her current project examines the nurse migration industry in the Philippines. In 2019, she received the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association, which is the discipline’s highest award given to a gender scholar.

Events

Gender, Sexuality and Migrant Exclusion

Friday, September 20

This talk traces the gendered and sexualized exclusion of LGBTQ+ individuals in U.S. history on the basis of moral turpitude. Particular attention will be paid to the case of Canadian Clive Michael Boutiler, whose 1967 deportation from the United States highlighted the discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ immigrants.