People
Heide Castañeda
Professor and Associate Chair
contact
Office: SOC 123
Email: hcastaneda@usf.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona
- MPH, Public Health, University of Texas
- MA, Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
Teaching
Borders and Migration, Issues in Migrant Health, Anthropological Theory Today, Anthropology of Health Policy, Theory in Medical Anthropology, Foundations of Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Health & Medical Systems, Global Health from an Anthropological Perspective.
Research
Critical border studies, political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, citizenship, US/Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, Morocco.
Current projects
- "Migrant Communities: Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Placemaking under Uncertain Timelines" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 2149059): Examines shifts in spaces of “transit” to settlement for sub-Saharan Africans in Morocco, focused on forced immobility, legal status precarity, gendered geographies of power, and local processes of racialization (with Dr. Tara Deubel)
- "Mixed-Status Families and Citizenship in the Contemporary Migration Experience" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1535664 and the Wenner-Gren Foundation): Focuses on mixed-status families living along the US/Mexico border
- "Legal Status and the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adult Immigrants" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1729396): examines social and emotional well-being of undocumented youth and DACA recipients in Florida
- "Indigenous Mobilities: Amazigh Im/migrants in the United States"
Recent Publications
Books
- Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives. Routledge, 2023.
- Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families. Stanford University Press, 2019.
- Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. Mulligan, Jessica & Castañeda, Heide, editors. NYU Press, 2018.
Select Articles & Chapters
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Castañeda, Heide (2022) Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health. In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, Wiley.
- Vaquera, Elizabeth, Castañeda, Heide, and Aranda, Elizabeth (2022) Legal and Ethnoracial Consciousness: Perceptions of Immigrant Media Narratives among the Latino Undocumented 1.5 Generation. American Behavioral Scientist.
- Castañeda, Heide (2021) Migrant*innen ohne Dokumente. In Handbuch zu Migration und Gesundheit. Hogrefe Verlag.
- Smith, Sarah A. and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging and Precarity of Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
- Logan, Ryan, Melo, Milena A, and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health Within Mixed-Status Families. Medical Anthropology 40(7): 639-652.
- Castañeda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2019) Geographies of Confinement for Immigrant Youth: Checkpoints and Immobilities along the US/Mexico Border. Law & Policy 41(1): 80-102.
- Holmes, Seth and Castañeda, Heide (2016) Representing the European Refugee Crisis in Germany and Beyond: Deservingness and Difference, Life and Death. American Ethnologist 43(1): 12-24.
- Castañeda, Heide, Holmes, Seth M., Madrigal, Daniel S., Young, Maria-Elena DeTrinidad, Beyerle, Naomi, and Quesada, James (2015) Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health. Annual Review of Public Health 36:375-392.
Graduate Students
Rachel Kingsley, Amanda Leppert Gomes, William Lucas, and Isabela Solis.