Invisible Anthropologists

Alayne Unterberger began her career as a bilingual outreach worker and clinical social worker. Since becoming interested in research 15 years ago, she has worked in diverse communities, with an emphasis on Participatory Action Research, community building and facilitated change. Her geographic areas of work include the United States, Puerto Rico,Mexico, and Nicaragua. Since 2002, she has served as the executive director of the Florida Institute for Community Studies (FICS), a not-for-profit organization that works with multicultural and disenfranchised communities across Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of Florida. She is a former coeditor of the NAPA Bulletin series and has served as the student representative on the NAPA Board of Directors. Her work includes binational health status research, family planning, HIV/AIDS/STD prevention, gender studies, migration, immigration, policy analysis, social marketing, and youth development. Her current research interests include historical treatment of immigrants in the United States, the role of science in evidence-based prevention programs, and safety issues in social networking sites.

• Introduction: The Blur: Balancing Applied Anthropology, Activism, and Self vis-à-vis Immigrant Communities (Alayne Unterberger). Engaging with the Immigrant Human Rights Movement in a Besieged Border Region: What Do Applied Social Scientists Bring to the Policy Process? (Josiah McC. Heyman, Maria Cristina Morales, Guillermina Gina Núñez).Immigrants Fleeing a Dying Industry: Applying Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures to the Study of Tobacco Farmworkers (David Griffith).Juramentos and Mandas: Traditional Catholic Practices and Substance Abuse in Mexican Communities of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Víctor García, Laura González).The Soccer Wars: Hispanic Immigrants in Conflict and Adaptation at the Soccer Borderzone (Tim Wallace).Life in the 813: One day a Migrant Student, the Next a Gangster (Alayne Unterberger).Thirty Cans of Beef Stew and a Thong: Anthropologist as Academic, Administrator, and Activist in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region (Konane M. Martínez)Inventing a Public Anthropology with Latino Farm Labor Organizers in North Carolina (Sandy Smith-Nonini).Biosketches of Authors.