HELEN MARROW received her A.B. in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Princeton University in 2000, and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University in 2007. She is broadly interested in immigration, race and ethnicity, social class, and inequality and social policy. With Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda, she is co-editor of The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965 (Harvard University Press, 2007), and she has also published on second-generation Brazilians in the United States, the dispersion of contemporary U.S. immigration streams into “new destinations”, and Latin American immigration to Ireland (forthcoming). While in the Program, Dr. Marrow has been revising her dissertation, which received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association in 2008, into a book manuscript tentatively entitled New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South. As a RWJ Scholar, she has also been investigating safety-net primary healthcare providers’ provision of care to undocumented immigrants, in an effort to more deeply understand their roles as institutional agents of immigrant incorporation and exclusion. Following the Program, Dr. Marrow will assume a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University.
Email: marrow@berkeley.edu
Publications
Books
Waters, Mary C. and Reed Ueda with Helen B. Marrow (Eds.). 2007. The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Journal articles
Marrow, Helen B. 2009. “Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of Professional Missions and Government Policies.” American Sociological Review 74(5): 756-76.
—. 2009. “New Destinations and the American Colour Line.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 32(6): 1037-57.
— 2005. “New Destinations and Immigrant Incorporation.” Perspectives on Politics 3(4): 781-99.
— 2003. “To Be or Not To Be (Hispanic or Latino): Brazilian Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States.” Ethnicities 3(4): 427-64
Book Chapters
Marrow, Helen B. forthcoming (tba). “Race and the New Southern Migration, 1986-present.” In Beyond the Border: The History of Mexico-US Migration, edited by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez. New York: Oxford University Press.
— 2008. “Hispanic Immigration, Black Population Size, and Intergroup Relations in the Rural and Small-Town U.S. South.” Pp. 211-48 in New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration, edited by Douglas S. Massey. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
— 2007. “Who Are the Other Latinos, and Why?” Pp. 39-77 in The Other Latinos: Central and South Americans in the United States, edited by José Luis Falconi and José Antonio Mazzotti. Cambridge: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
— 2007. “South America: Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela.” Pp. 593-611 in The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965, edited by Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda with Helen B. Marrow. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
— 2007. “Africa: South Africa and Zimbabwe.” Pp. 307-18 in The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965, edited by Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda with Helen B. Marrow. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Other Publications
Marrow, Helen B. (forthcoming September 2009). “Book Review: Varzally, Allison. 2008. Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955. Berkeley: University of California Press.” American Journal of Sociology 115(2)
— 2007. “County’s Language Ban Could Backfire on It.” Washington Daily News (Beaufort County, NC), February 28.
— 2006. “Book Review: Calavita, Kitty. 2005. Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.” American Journal of Sociology 112(2): 637-38.
— 2005. “Argentine Americans,” “Brazilian Americans,” “Chilean Americans,” “Colombian Americans,” “Peruvian Americans,” and “Venezuelan Americans.” Various pages in The Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society, edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: Grolier.
