Special Issue Introduction: Emotively Daring: Documenting, Investigating, and Archiving Emotional Impact

Ana Elizabeth Rosas is an Associate Professor of Chicano-Latino Studies and History at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her book, Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the U.S.-Mexico Border, received the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award. In 2018, she became the first UCI faculty member to be awarded UCI’s Office of the Chancellor’s Mentor of the Year Award in Undergraduate Student Research simultaneously in the School of Humanities and in the School of Social Sciences. Her current research interrogates the power of the intergenerational emotive investments and ventures of Mexican immigrant families in Mexico and the United States.