Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

  • Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-3533

Expertise Summary

Expert in gender, migration, Mexican immigration and informal sector work

Expertise

  • Mexican undocumented immigration to the U.S.
  • Latino labor in Los Angeles
  • women, gender and immigration
  • paid domestic work
  • amnesty legalization
  • employer sanctions
  • immigrant rights movement

Languages

  • Spanish

Additional Information

  • Author of God’s Heart Has No Borders (2008)
  • Author of Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2001, 2007)
  • Author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (1994)
  • Co-editor of Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender (1997), including Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the United States (1997)