Leo R. Chavez

Leo R. Chavez is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His single-authored books include Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Wadsworth Publishing, 1997 2nd edition), Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (University of California Press, 2001), and The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press, 2008). He is also the author of “Immigration and Medical Anthropology” in American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration (SAR Press, 2003) and “Wasting Away in Neoliberal-Ville: Mexican Immigrant Women’s Views of Cervical Cancer, Social Inequality, and Gender Relations” in Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology (SAR Press, 2009). Chavez has been studying various issues related to transnational migration for over 30 years.