Books

Andrews, Abigail and the students of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program. Forth. Banished Men: Erasure and Agency under Carceral Deportation. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

Andrews, Abigail L. 2018. Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

• ASA Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award
• ASA International Migration Section Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, Honorable Mention
• Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarship Award
• SSSP C. Wright Mills Award Finalist

Ray, Raka, Jennifer Carlson, and Abigail Andrews, Eds. 2017. The Social Life of Gender. Sage Press.

Selected Articles

López Ricoy, Ana, Abigail Andrews and Alejandra Medina. 2021. “Exit as Care: How Motherhood Mediates Women’s Exodus from Violence in Mexico and Central America.” Violence Against Women.

Andrews, Abigail and Fátima Khayar-Cámara. 2020. “Forced Out of Fatherhood: How Men Strive to Parent Post-Deportation.” Social Problems. (link to pre-prints)

Andrews, Abigail L. 2018. “Moralizing Regulation: The Political Effects of Policing ‘Good’ versus ‘Bad’ Immigrants.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.

• A preliminary version of this paper won the following:
• ASA Political Sociology Section Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, 2013
• ASA International Migration Section Distinguished Student Scholar Honorable Mention, 2013
• ASA Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Honorable Mention, 2013
• Society for the Study of Social Problems Law and Society Division Lindesmith Graduate Student Paper Award, 2013

Andrews, Abigail L. 2016. “Legacies of Inequity: How Hometown Political Participation and Land Distribution Shape Migrants’ Paths into Wage Labor.” World Development 87: 318-332.

Andrews, Abigail L. 2014. “Women’s Political Engagement in a Mexican Sending Community: Migration as Crisis and the Struggle to Sustain an Alternative.” Gender & Society 28.4: 583-608.

• ASA Sex and Gender Section Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award, 2013
• Latin American Studies Association Elsa Chaney Award for early career scholarship on women and gender in Latin America, 2013
• Society for the Study of Social Problems Community Research and Development Division Graduate Student Paper Award, 2013

Andrews, Abigail L. and Nazanin Shahrokni. 2014. “Patriarchal Accommodations: Women’s Mobility and Policies of Gender Difference from Urban Iran to Migrant Mexico.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 43.2, Special Issue on Global Ethnography (April): 148-175.

Andrews, Abigail L. 2014. “Downward Accountability in Unequal Alliances: Explaining NGO Responses to Zapatista Demands.” World Development 54 (February): 99-113.

Andrews, Abigail L. 2013. “The Quiet Insubordination of Staying Home: Rethinking Women who ‘Stay Behind.’” In Globalización y Migración/Inmigración: Políticas Migratorias y Desarrollo Social, edited by Moreno Mena et al. Tijuana: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

• ASA Development Section Best Graduate Student Paper Award, 2012

Andrews, Abigail L. 2011. “How Activists ‘Take Zapatismo Home’: South-to-North Power Dynamics in Transnational Social Movements.” Latin American Perspectives 38.1: 138-152.

Andrews, Abigail L. 2010. “Constructing Mutuality: The Zapatistas’ Transformation of Transnational Activist Power Dynamics.” Latin American Politics and Society 52.1: 89-120.