"He Has Me Tied with the Blessed and Damned Papers": Undocumented-Immigrant Battered Women in Phoenix, Arizona

Human Organization, Summer 2004 by Salcido, Olivia, Adelman, Madelaine

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Olivia Salcido holds an M.A. in anthropology from the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University. She conducted graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Quertaro, Quertaro, Mexico. Her research centers on immigration and domestic violence in the U.S. Southwest borderlands. Madelaine Adelman is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona Stale University. Her ethnographic research focuses on the politics of domestic violence in the U.S. and the Middle East. The authors thank Nora Haenn and Jim Eder for their intellectual guidance.