Maria Cristina Garcia is an American historian,currently the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University.[1][2][3][4] Her work focuses on the history of displaced and mobile populations in the Americas.
Analytically,Garcia primarily cites the work of individuals,groups,and organizations which responded to the Central American refugee crisis of the 1980s and 1990s,and whose efforts restructured refugee policies throughout North America. Collectively,domestic and transnational advocacy networks documented the abuses of states,pressured for changes in policy,provided representation to the displaced and the excluded,and ultimately re-framed national debates about immigration.
Recent publications (2018-present)
In her most recent work,State of Disaster:The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change, Garcia examines the environmental origins and factors affecting refugee migrations.[10]
In The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (Oxford University Press),Garcia examines the most important political actors and issues for the development of the United States' refugee and asylum policy since 1989.
An anthology,co-edited with Maddalena Marinari entitled Whose America? US Immigration Policy since 1980 was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2023. A second anthology,coedited with Madeline Hsu and Maddalena Marinari,entitled A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered:The U.S. in an Age of Restriction,1924-1965 was published by the University of Illinois Press in the fall of 2018.
Books
State of Disaster:The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (2022)
The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (2017)
Seeking Refuge:Central American Migration to Mexico,the United States,and Canada (2006)
Havana USA:Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (1996)
Anthologies
Whose America? U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 (2023)
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered:The U.S. in an Age of Restriction,1924-1965
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