
Education
B.A. - Sociology, Rice University
M.A. - Educational Policy, Practice and Foundation, University of Colorado at Boulder
Ph.D. - Sociology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Scholarly Work
Martinez, I. (2019) Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/becoming-transnational-youth-work...
Martínez, I. (2019) Becoming American, Staying Mexican: Negotiating Assimilation in an Ambivalent Global City. In P. Sanchez, Hernández Zamora, G. and G. Ramirez (Eds.), In search of hope and home: Mexican immigrants in the trinational NAFTA context. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. (Forthcoming).
Martinez, I. (2018) Why They Leave: Latin American Immigrant Youths and their quest for survival. In M. Crock and L.B. Benson (Eds.) Protecting Migrant Children: In Seach of Best Practice (54-74), (Northampton, MA: Elgar Publishing). https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/protecting-migrant-children
Montelongo, I. and I. Martínez. (2018). Decolonizing the classroom: Latina/os and Chicana/os Speaking and Learning from the Margins. In G. Nuñez and A.Gonzalez, Community Engagement and High Impact Practices in Higher Education, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing,
Martinez, I. (2016). Miseducating Latina Researchers: Challenges and Consequences in the Field. Latino Studies, 14, 4, 533-544.
Martinez, I. (2016) Supporting Two Households: Mexican Immigrant Youth and their absences from U.S. Schools. Journal of Latinos and Education, 15, 3, 229-243. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15348431.2015.1131690