Aaron Arredondo

Biography

Aaron Arredondo’s research intersects critical immigration theory with the emerging field of racialized space in sociology. He has named this theoretical perspective the spatialization of critical immigration studies (SCIMS). Aaron draws on community-based participatory methods to examine immigrant families’ experiences of racialized space, labor, and belonging across the rural United States. His work has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Inquiry, among other leading social science journals. Aaron’s research has also received support from the National Science Foundation (flowthrough the American Sociological Association) and the Jobs with Justice Education Fund.