Norma Fuentes-Mayorga is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Program Director of Latin American and Latina/o Studies. Since completing her dissertation in 2005, she has documented the U.S. immigration of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, with a special focus on the mobility life chances of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous women and the contributions these migrants make to communities of origin and destination. This longitudinal research has culminated in a recent book publication, From Homemakers, To Breadwinners, To Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color (2023). Currently, Fuentes-Mayorga is completing a cross-national study on the educational mobility of immigrant daughters in a transforming, digitalized economy. Longitudinal ethnographies of families and neighborhoods, in-depth interviews, and census data help document the role of higher education, technology, gender, and race on the mobility outcomes of Moroccan and Dominican daughters in the cities of Amsterdam and New York. The findings will inform the writing of a second book manuscript, tentatively titled, “From Second Sex to Model Minorities: The Social Mobility of Immigrant Daughters in Digitalized & Racialized Contexts.” Fuentes-Mayorga has presented and published her work in interdisciplinary forums and academic venues in the U.S., Western Europe, and Latin America. She has held visiting research fellowships & teaching positions at the University of Amsterdam/NL, Princeton/USA, Deusto/Spain, UPAEP/CDMX, CUNY’s Graduate Center, and New York University.
Education
“Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, 2005
M.A. in Sociology, Columbia University, 1999
B.A. in Sociology, Columbia University, 1989”
Courses
“Latinas and U.S Immigration
Daughters of Immigrants: Inequality & Social Mobility
Racialization: Single Mothers, Sexual and Religious Minorities
Blancas, Negras & Morenas: Gender and Race in Another America”
“Fuentes-Mayorga, N. (2023). From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color. Rutgers University Press.
García-Carmona, M., Fuentes-Mayorga, N., & Rodríguez-García, A. M. (2021). Educational Leadership for Social Justice in Multicultural Contexts: The Case of Melilla, Spain. Leadership and Policy in Schools,20(1), 76-94. (Equal contribution).
García-Carmona, M., Evangelou, M., & Fuentes-Mayorga, N. (2020). ‘Hard-to-reach’ parents: immigrant families’ participation in schools and the views of parent association leaders in Spain and the United States. Research Papers in Education, 35(3), 337-358. (Equal contribution).
Tienda, Marta and Norma Fuentes. “Hispanics in Metropolitan America: New Realities and Old Debates,” Annual Review of Sociology (August 2014).
Crul, M., J. Holdaway, H. De Valk, N. Fuentes and M. Zaal (2013) ”Educating the Children of Immigrants in Amsterdam and New York,” in Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway (editors), The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe (Social Science Research Council). New York City: New York University Press.
Fuentes, N. (2013) “Spanish-speaking Caribbean Migration in the 20th Century,” in Ness, I & Bellwood, P. (Editors) Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Fuentes-Mayorga, N. (2011) “Sorting Brown and Black Latino service workers in gentrifying New York neighborhoods. Latino Studies. Vol. 9, 1, 106-125.
Fuentes, N. (2010) “La Experiencias Emigratorias de Mujeres Dominicanas y Mexicanas en la Ciudad de Nueva York,” en, Emigrantes en Estados Unidos y en Espana: Protagonistas en el siglo XXI. Tomas Calvo Buezas e Isabel Gentil (editores). Centro de Estudios de Migraciones y Racismo. Complutense University, Barcelona, Spain.
Fuentes, N. (2007). “”The Immigrant Experiences of Dominican and Mexican Women in the 1990s: Crossing Class, Racial and Gender Boundaries or Temporary Work Spaces in New York City,”” in Caroline Brettel (editor), Crossing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration. New York: Lexington Books”
