research overview
- Ordaz is interested in the history of immigration detention in the United States. Her larger research interests include immigration control, US-Mexico border studies, prisoner activism, the carceral state, and food justice.
- Contact Info
Ordaz, Jessica
Positions
- Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
- Assoc Chair, Ethnic Studies
- Associate Professor, History
Research Areas
- Agriculture/Food Sciences/Foods
- American History
- Asylum
- Central America
- Chicanos
- Citizenship
- Civil/Human Rights
- Confinement
- Ethnic Studies
- Foods
- Foreign Policy
- Hispanics
- Historical Documents
- History
- Homeland Security
- Illegal Aliens
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Latin America
- Mexico
- Migrant Labor
- Migration
- Oral History
- Racism/Race Relations
- Refugees
- Twentieth Century History
- United States
Research
keywords
- Borders, Carcerality, State Violence, Detention and Deportation Regime, Migration, Asylum, Labor, Immigration History, Social Movements, Food Justice, Latinx Veganism
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
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journal article
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Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America.
Journal of American History.
121-121.
2023
- A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community. Journal of American Ethnic History. 119-120. 2023
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Walling in and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us?.
Western Historical Quarterly.
358-359.
2021
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"AIDS Knows No Borders" Testimonies of HIV/AIDS, Exclusion, and Migrant Detention.
Radical History Review.
175-185.
2021
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La Lucha Obrera No la Para la Frontera (There Are No Borders in the Workers’ Struggle).
California History.
3-23.
2021
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Migrant Detention Archives.
Southern California Quarterly.
250-273.
2020
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Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance.
Journal of American Ethnic History.
111-112.
2020
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Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralon: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California.
Journal of American Ethnic History.
65-93.
2019
- Controlling and Defending Mexican Representation in the 1970s: A (Her)story of Sterilization Abuse in California. 9-26. 2011
- Remembering and Representing Femicide in the Borderlands of Ciudad Juarez. 153-165. 2011
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Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America.
Journal of American History.
121-121.
2023
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of California-Davis 2017
- M.A., University of California-Davis 2014
- M.A., California State University-Fullerton 2011
- B.A., University of California-Santa Barbara 2008
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Mexico Country