Hilary Parsons Dick

(PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2006) Lecturer in Anthropology, Latin American Studies and in the Social Sciences in the College, is a Linguistic Anthropologist who focuses her research on Mexico-US migration including such topics as discourse analysis; the semiotics of social difference and political economies of language; transnational cultural formations; language and globalization; power relations; gender, class, and ethno-racial relations; kinship and family relations and the production of "home"; and the impact of policy on migration. The argument of her forthcoming book, Words of Passage: A Discourse-Centered Approach to Migration, is that speakers' sustained patterns of identification with images of personhood encourage or discourage migration by regimenting the social trajectories speakers are more likely to follow.
E-mail: hdick@uchicago.edu

Publications:

2006 El Norte No Se Hizo Para Todos/The U.S. Wasn't Made for Everyone: Imagined Lives, Social Difference and Discourse in Migration. PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

2006 What Do You Do With ‘I Don't Know': Processes of Elicitation in Ethnographic vs Survey Interviews. Qualitative Sociology, 29(1): 87-102.

2006 Haciendo de Tripas el Carazón/Plucking Up Courage: Migration, Family Internal Conflict, and Gender in Veronica's Story. Migration Letters, 3(1): 67-77.

n.d. (co-ed. With P. Faudree) Identities Mistaken and Secret: The Semiotics of Identification in Time and Space. Special issues of the Journal, Pragmatics (forthcoming).

n.d. Crossing the Border with Words. Pragmatics, special issue on Identities Mistaken and Secret: The Semiotics of Identification in Time and Space (forthcoming)

n.d. Words of Passage: A Discourse-Centered Approach to Migration. (Book manuscript based on the Dissertation, ready for submission)