at The University of Southern Mississippi

Research interests
Dr. Bridget Hayden is a cultural anthropologist interested in the social experience of processes of globalization and political-economic change. She works primarily on the politics and experience of migration, with a particular focus on discourses of nationalism, identity, and citizenship. Her primary area of ethnographic research is in Central America and she has done work in both Costa Rica and El Salvador, but she as a secondary interest in the United States and has worked on the politics of migration from Latin America to this country. Her first research project was on the experiences of displacement and resettlement of Salvadorans who were refugees in Costa Rica. She is beginning work on how Salvadoran migration to the United States is affecting El Salvador and reframing definitions of national belonging and citizenship there.

Recent publications

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2006 Katrina: La ideología y representación de un desastre natural. Revista de Estudios Sociales, San José, Costa Rica. No. 113. In press.

2006 What’s in a name? Defining refugees, defining ourselves. Journal of Refugee Studies 19:471-487

2005 Salvadoreños en Costa Rica: Vidas Desplazadas. Translation of Salvadorans in Costa Rica. Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica.

2003 Salvadorans in Costa Rica: Displaced Lives. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2003 Mead, myth and public anthropology. The Scholar and the Feminist On-Line 1:2.

2003 Salvadorans in Costa Rica: Displaced Lives. University of Arizona Press: Tucson.

Classes taught
Ant 101 Introduction to Anthropology
Ant 221 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Ant 317 Peoples and Cultures of Mesoamerica
Ant 429/529 Applied Anthropology

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