Faculty
Elizabeth Aranda
Professor
CONTACT
Office: CPR 219
Phone: (813) 974-7690
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BIO
Elizabeth Aranda is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Immigrant Well-Being Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½. Her research addresses migrants' emotional well-being and how they adapt to challenges posed by racial and ethnic inequalities, legal status, and other challenges associated with adaptation in a new place. She has published two books, Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation (2006), and with Hughes and Sabogal, she is lead author of the book, Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City (2014). Dr. Aranda has published her scholarship in journals such as Social Forces, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The Sociological Quarterly, Gender & Society, Social Science Research, and Social Problems, among others. Her current work is a) on the lives of undocumented young adults in °®¶¹´«Ã½ and how they navigate the terrain of immigration policies and inclusion/exclusion, and b) how Puerto Rican post-disaster migrants construct home in new places.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Temple University, 2001