Catherine S. Ramírez
Catherine S. Ramírez is a scholar of migration, citizenship, race, and gender and an associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book, Assimilation: An Alternative History, will be published by the University of California Press in 2020.
All essays by Catherine S. Ramírez
What Does Assimilation Mean?
For many of these immigrants, especially those who arrived here as children, the US is home, but they’re unable to participate fully in society and to improve their lives—in other words, to assimilate, in the best sense—as long as they’re undocumented.
Mar. 2020 •
Migration