Episode 3 (S2) Cecilia Menjivar About Legal Liminality And Violence

The Migration Podcast

In this episode we speak about how bureaucracy and law shape everyday lives, but we also learn more about how listening closely to research participants can yield insights that go beyond what is already known. Milena Belloni speaks to Cecilia Menjivar about liminality and the different, less obvious forms of violence faced by women in Guatemala and by Central American immigrants in the United States. These include narratives about different forms of everyday suffering described by women in two Guatemalan villages, as well the constant uncertainty some groups of immigrants live with, in the United States. Cecilia Menjivar published extensively about these two empirical areas of work, her books ”Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala” (University of California Press, 2011) and “Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America” (University of California Press, 2000) having won her several prices and awards. Learn more about Cecilia´s work here: https://soc.ucla.edu/people/cecilia-menj%C3%ADvar