Paula Aymer
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Tufts University
United States of America
Biography
Immigration, Labor Migration, Family Cross-Culturally, Religion, Racial/Ethnic Studies. Research, publications, and teaching highlight structured systems of inequality that influence the life chances and socio-economic options that people are able to access and inherit. In addition, my work examines the micro-level responses and solutions people make as they navigate macro-level, economic, gender, racial and religious structures, designed to privilege and reward, but also, exploit, and oppress them. Professor Aymer continues to do research, write, and publish on immigration issues, and especially on immigrant women in regional and international labor markets.
Research Interest
International Migration; Women and Labor Migration; Religion Cross-Culturally; Women in World Religions; Christian Missionary Movements; Pentecostalism; Caribbean Studies; The African Diaspora; Structured Inequalities: Race, Ethnicity, Social Class, Gender; Family Cross-Culturally
Publications
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Book Review: “Foreign Guest Workers in the U.S. Economy,†of David Griffith’s Gues t w orkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market , for The Bulletin of Latin American Research. Fall 2007 University of Liverpool, England .
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Referred Article: Representations of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Caribbean Economies. :Haitian and Dominican Migrant Women in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.†Latin - American & Caribbean Studies. (LACES) Vol.6, No. l. Mar ch 2011, 1 - 25
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Article : “West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide,†in Black Women and Pentecostalism in Diaspora. Elizabeth Pritchard and Judith Casselberry (eds.) Accepted for publication by Duke University Publishers.
