Areas of Interest:
International Migration; Latinx Studies/Sociology; Work; Family; Race, Class, and GenderBio
Melissa A. Manzanares is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her dissertation explores the factors, processes, and actors that make farmworkers vulnerable to human trafficking and labor abuses. Additionally, she explores how these workers understand and respond to their work conditions. Drawing on data from 47 in-depth interviews, hundreds of hours of ethnographic fieldwork, and existing surveys of Latin American migrants and their children in North Carolina, her dissertation and prior research contributes to the fields of Sociology and Latinx Studies.
Education
2014, B.A. Political Science, Whittier College, summa cum laude
2020, M.A. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Expected Spring 2024, Ph.D. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Recent Publications
Silver, Alexis M. and Melissa A. Manzanares. 2023. “Transnational Ambivalence: Incorporation after Forced and Compelled Return to Mexico.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 46 (12): 2612–32.
Silver, Alexis M., Melissa A. Manzanares, and Liron Goldring. 2021. “‘Starting from Scratch?’: Adaptation After Deportation and Return Migration Among Young Mexican Migrants.” Pp. 127–49 in Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence, edited by M. Bhatia and V. Canning.
Contact
230 Hamilton Hall (soon to be Pauli Murray Hall)
Manzanares@unc.edu | MelissaManzanares.com