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I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in temporality, affect, and gender, racialization, & ethnicity among undocumented migrants in the United States. My first book project, tentatively titled, "Culled Futures: Temporality, Fieldwork, and Migrants in the San Joaquin Valley," examines the experience of waiting and hoping for citizenship across several generations for undocumented migrants.��My work highlights the complex experience of migrant personhood as one fraught with familial and gender-based tensions, centers forms of moral deservingness migrants invest in, and interrogates how such discourses and imagery operate in undocumented people’s lives. This research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.

My second project is with former undocumented migrants who have left the United States “voluntarily” and U-Visa applicants. My work on U-Visas and voluntary departees/retornados/returnees may be seen as a diptych: a comparison of futures and social worlds based on generational difference, as former “Dreamers” or DACAmented youth who leave see lesser futures in the US, while U-Visa applicants attest their experiences for state recognition.��

Prior to joining CU ������ý����, I was the��César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. I received my PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, with a certificate in Women & Gender Studies, and completed my B.A. in Anthropology at University of California, Merced.��

Featured Publications:

• Cabrera, Gabrielle. "Review of Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States by Rafael Martínez, 2024." Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal 2, 1 (2025).
• Cabrera, Gabrielle. “Migrant Lives: Invisibility, Solidarity, and Repair.” Anthropology News website, August 30, 2025.���� ��
• Cabrera, Gabrielle. "Disrupting Diversity: Undocumented Students in the Neoliberal University." In We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States, edited by Leisy J. Abrego and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, 66-86. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv15kxg4f.7.
• Hundle, Anneeth Kaur, Ma Vang, Neama Alamri, Amrit Deol, Danielle Bermúdez, Violet Barton, Gabrielle Cabrera, Brenda Gutierrez, and Clara Medina Maya. "Thinking the “Twenty-First Century Neoliberal Research University”: Preliminary Reflections on Opportunity, Risk, and Solidarity at the New University of California."��Critical Ethnic Studies��5, no. 1-2 (2019): 174-204. doi:10.5749/jcritethnstud.5.1-2.0174.
• Diaz, Gloria, Gabrielle Cabrera, Carla Moore, and Laura Yakas.��“Woke to Weary.” Public Culture. 2019.