{"id":10475,"date":"2019-10-28T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_people&p=10475"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:23:29","slug":"eloy-rivas-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/eloy-rivas-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloy Rivas-Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My research praxis is guided by the normative principle which considers that scientific inquiry must serve the purposes of human life improvement and emancipation, including emancipation from harm and suffering. Guided by that principle, my solo and collaborative research has interrogated how wider social structures and processes affect the lives and wellbeing of vulnerable populations, and how those affected develop agency to overcome their socially induced vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working in close collaboration with undocumented workers, racialized minorities, migrant justice organizations, people living with HIV, sexual minorities, subaltern mestizo men in rural communities, and indigenous organizations, both in the South and Global North, I have learned how mixing research, education, and community organizing can provide the basis upon which positive social change can occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why I am also passionate about teaching. Inspired by Paulo Freire and by those who have taught me, I believe that education is a collaborative practice in and for freedom, and that the goal of the learning process is to cultivate, through horizontal communication and reflexive dialogue, a critical understanding of the social world and a practical will to transform it in a way that people\u2019s lives can be improved. Therefore, I pay close attention to my teaching practices and try to engage with the students in the creation of learning environments that help to cultivate a richer understanding of the social world while fostering love for life and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am interested in collaborating with people researching, teaching or engaged in topics linked to precarious migration; labour and work; race\/class\/gender; political economy; ethnography; critical pedagogy, and prefigurative politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2019. \u201cTravail abstrait, socialisation et social (d\u00e9s) int\u00e9gration des sans-papiers au Canada.\u201d Travail, mobilit\u00e9s, subjectivit\u00e9s et formes d\u2019assujettissement dans les Am\u00e9riques<\/em>, Alexis Martig et Jorge Pantaleon (coords.). Qu\u00e9bec, CA: Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval- Collection Nord\/Sud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019. \u201cPourquoi nous nous opposons au nouveau centre de d\u00e9tention pour immigrants \u00e0 Laval?\u201d, Perspectives<\/em> (Op. Ed), HuffPost Quebec<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018. \u201cPedagogies against Dispossession: Principles for a Transformative Ecodemopedagogy as Vehicle for Social and Environmental justice\u201d [In Spanish] International Journal of Education for Social Justice 7<\/em> (1): 69-93. Co-authored with Paul R. Carr, Gina Th\u00e9s\u00e9e & Sandra Molano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018. \u201cWhiteness and Racism in Education: Some Ideas to Help Construct Schools for more Democratic Societies.\u201d [in Spanish] Justicia e Interculturalidad. An\u00e1lisis y pensamiento plural en Am\u00e9rica y Europa<\/em>, Jerjes Loayza y Marianella Ledezma (eds) pp: 143-167. Lima, Peru: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales del Tribunal Constitucional del Per\u00fa. Coauthored with Paul R. Carr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015. \u201cEspacios de \u2018ilegalidad\u2019: El caso de trabajadores mexicanos en dos comunidades rurales de Canad\u00e1,\u201d Trabajadores Agr\u00edcolas Temporales en Norteam\u00e9rica<\/em>, Martha Judith S\u00e1nchez y Sara Mar\u00eda Lara (Coords.). Distrito Federal, MEX: UNAM. Co-authored with Tanya Basok, Danielle Belanger & Guillermo C\u00e1ndiz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014. “Claiming Rights to Workplace Safety: Latin American Immigrant Workers in Ontario” Canadian Ethnic Studies 46<\/em> (3): 35-53. Co-authored with Tanya Basok & Alan Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014. “Reproducing Deportability: Migrant Agricultural Workers in South-western Ontario” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40<\/em> (9): 1394-1413.
\nCo-authored with Tanya Basok & Danielle Bellanger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013. Choosing to Become Unauthorized: A Case Study of Mexican Migrant Farm Workers in Leamington<\/em>. Toronto, Ontario: CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre. Co-authored with Tanya Basok & Danielle Belanger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005. \u201c\u00bfEl varon como factor de riesgo? Masculinidad y mortalidad por accidentes y otras causas violentas en la sierra de Sonora\u201d Estudios Sociales, 25<\/em> (13): 28-65<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005. \u201cLos discursos sexuales conservadores en Sonora.\u201d Los rostros del conservadurismo mexicano<\/em>, R. de la Torre, M. Garc\u00eda, and J. Ramirez (eds.) pp: 309-334. Mexico DF, MEX: CIESAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005. \u201cEl VIH\/Sida y los derechos humanos en M\u00e9xico.\u201d Los Derechos Humanos y la Globalizaci\u00f3n<\/em>, pp: 85-92. Mexico DF, MEX: CNDH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004. \u201cEntre la temeridad y la responsabilidad. Masculinidad, riesgo y mortalidad por violencia en la sierra de Sonora\u201d, 2004, Desacatos. Revista de Antropolog\u00eda Social, 15-16<\/em> (1): 69-89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SOCI 5404 “Race, Class, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Societies” (Graduate Seminar), Fall 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOCI 3030 “Studies in Work, Industry and Occupations: Authority and Expertise,” Winter 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24956,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Eloy","cu_people_last_name":"Rivas-Sanchez","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[45],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-10475","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-contract-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Sociology with Specialization in Political Economy (Carleton University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"eloyrivassanchez@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24958,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10475\/revisions\/24958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}