Patricia R. Pessar

Patricia R. Pessar is Professor (Adjunct) of American Studies and Anthropology. She is the author of When Borders Don’t Divide: Labor Migration and Refugee Movements in the Americas (1988); Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration (1991); A Visa For a Dream: Dominicans in New York (1995); and From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture (2005). Her teaching and research interests include transnationalism and globalization, gender and ethnic studies, and migration in the Americas. She is currently completing a new book entitled Gendered Migrations and Geographies of Power: A Critical Feminist Engagement with Migration Studies.