Publications
Books
Disponible en español, traducido por (Now available in Spanish, translated by) Ana Lylia Salazar Schultz (2023).
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Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas 2021
(NACCS Book Award, 2023)
Articles
Community Organizing in the borderlands
“Dance in the Desert: Latinx Bodies in Movement Beyond Borders” in Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United States. 2022
"Arizona: A Reflection and Conversation on the Migrant Rights Movement, 2015"
Social Justice: A journal of crime, conflict & world order
2016
"A Woman’s Right to Organize: An Interview with Members of the Collective Feminista Binacional"
Aztlán: A journal of chicano studies
2013
"Transfronteriza: Gender Rights at the Border and La Colectiva Feminista"
2013
"Immigration and the State of Labor: Building a Movement in the Valley of the Sun"
Latino Studies
2011
"Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence & Resistance on the U.S. Mexico Border"
2008
Gender, Migration, Borders
“Memoria y duelo en la frontera”
Special Issue: Border Memories, Now and Then. Journal of the Southwest. Edited by Emma Pérez. 2025
“The Impact of the 100-mile Border Enforcement Zone on Mexican Americans in Arizona” American Behavioral Scientist 2024
“Border crossings and sexual conquest in the age of neoliberalism in the Sonoran Desert”
International Feminist Journal of Politics
2018
"Violence and Vulnerability of Migrants in Drop Houses in Arizona"
Violence Against Women Journal
2015
Chicana and women of color Feminism
Sometimes It’s Necessary to Break a Few Rules: A Virtual Interview with Yalitza Aparicio Ethnic Studies Review, 2021
“Fifty Years of Chicana Feminist Theory, Praxis and Resistance”
2020
“Writing the Intersection: Feminist Autoethnography as Narrative Collaboration”
2018
Mester Journal Interviews the Chicana Motherwork Collective 2017
“Our Labor Is Our Prayer, Our Mother Is Our Offering”
A Chicana M(other)work Framework for Collective Resistance
2017
"Negotiating Spirituality, Family, and Community"
2014
"Doing Research at the Borderlands: Notes from a Chicana Feminist Ethnographer"
2005
"Mi Madre, Mi Hija y Yo Chicana Mothering through Memory, Culture and Place"
2011
Public Scholarship
"Challenging Academic Inequities with Collective Resistance" National Center for Institutional Diversity, April 2019
The Mexican Student Movement of 1968: A Remembrance With ‘La Nacha’
Latino Rebels, 2018
"UA must do more to help immigrant, DACA students"
Arizona Daily Star, 2018
"How Student Activism Shaped My (Our) Life (Lives): On the 25th Anniversary of the 'Chicana/Chicano Studies Now' Movement at UCLA"
Latino Rebels, 2018
"On love and grief this Valentine's Day"
Latino Rebels, 2018
"How Artists Can Shape Understanding of the U.S.-Mexico Border"
Latino USA, 2018
"Why Family Ties Matter in U.S. Immigration Policy"
LARB, 2017
"Beyond the Wall" Gender and Policy, 2017
"Lessons from Ethnic Studies on Strategic Courage"
Mujeres Talk, 2017
"A Climate of Hate"
TruthOut, 2017
"Trump's Border (In)Securities"
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 2017
"Why We Must Write"
The Feminist Wire, 2016
"The US-Mexico Borderlands"
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 2016
"Chicana Motherwork"
The Feminist Wire, 2014
Op-Ed: Why We Need Critical Ethnic Studies in Arizona (and Everywhere Else)
The Feminist Wire, 2014
Research Briefs
Michelle Téllez and Kayla M. Osman, 2022. “A Qualitative Analysis of COVID-19’s Impact on Indigenous and Migrant Communities in the United States Southwest." CIHR Study: COVID-19’s differential impact on the mental and emotional health of Indigenous Peoples and Newcomers: A socioeconomic analysis of Canada, US and Mexico. CovidImpacts.ca
Michelle Téllez and Erika Tenorio, 2021. "Impact of Covid-19 on Indigenous Communities of Southern Arizona." CIHR Study: COVID-19’s differential impact on the mental and emotional health of Indigenous Peoples and Newcomers: A socioeconomic analysis of Canada, US and Mexico. CovidImpacts.ca
Michelle Téllez and Alejandra Encinas, 2021. “Impact of Covid-19 in the Migrant Community of Southern Arizona.” CIHR Study: COVID-19’s differential impact on the mental and emotional health of Indigenous Peoples and Newcomers: A socioeconomic analysis of Canada, US and Mexico. CovidImpacts.ca
Chicana M(other)work: A Conceptual and Collective Framework
Center for Critical Race Studies in Education at UCLA, 2019
