The University of Arizona Press

Maria Cristina Morales is a native of the El Paso del Norte region and a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her work focuses on structural violence and inequalities of Latinxs and the U.S.-Mexico border. She devised the concept of citizenship profiling, she is the co-author of Latinos in the U.S., and she is currently examining patterns of structural violence at the U.S.-Mexico border.