The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America Oxford Handbooks Series

The sociology of Latin America, established in the region over the past eighty years, is a thriving field whose major contributions include dependence theory, world-systems theory, and historical debates on economic development, among others. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America provides research essays that introduce the readers to the discipline's key areas and current trends, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies deploying a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The essays in the Handbook are arranged in eight research subfields in which scholars are currently making significant theoretical and methodological contributions: Sociology of the State, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Religion, Collective Action and Social Movements, Sociology of Migration, Sociology of Gender, Medical Sociology, and Sociology of Violence and Insecurity. Due to the deterioration of social and economic conditions, as well as recent disruptions to an already tense political environment, these have become some of the most productive and important fields in Latin American sociology. This roiling sociopolitical atmosphere also generates new and innovative expressions of protest and survival, which are being explored by sociologists across different continents today. The essays included in this collection offer a map to and a thematic articulation of central sociological debates that make it a critical resource for those scholars and students eager to understand contemporary sociology in Latin America.

Xóchitl Bada is an Associate Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her articles have appeared in Forced Migration Review, Population, Space, and Place, Latino Studies, and Labor Studies Journal. She is the author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Her areas of specialization include migrant access to political and social rights, migrant organizing strategies, and transnational labor advocacy mobilization in Mexico and the United States. She is co-editor of the books New Migration Patterns in the Americas (Palgrave, 2018) and Accountability across Borders (University of Texas Press, 2019). She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2019-2020. Liliana Rivera-Sánchez received a Ph. D in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is Professor and Researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City. She is author of 15 books (monographies and edited), 25 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, more than 35 book chapters, in Spanish, English and French languages. Her most recent book is (as Editor): ¿Volver a casa? Migrantes de retorno en América Latina. Debates, tendencias y experiencias divergentes, Mexico: El Colegio de México, 2019.