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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 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 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 migrants who have self-deported from the United States, and U-Visa applicants. My work on U-Visas and self-deportees may be seen as a diptych: a comparison of futures and social worlds based on generational difference, as youth who leave see lesser futures in the US, while U-Visa applicants attest their experiences for state recognition.

Prior to joining �Ͼ�Ʒ��, 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. “Barrio Fiesta: Food, Labor, and Subjectivity of Undocumented Youth.” In Food Talk: Sociocultural Entanglements of Language and Foodways, edited by Kathleen Riley and Amy Paugh, under contract with Routledge. [Under Review.]
• 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.