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Professor Sandra Portocarrero’s research explores how organizations can sustain and alleviate inequality, with a particular focus on employees and entrepreneurs who carry stigmatized social identities. Utilizing field methods such as in-depth interviews, surveys, and participant observation, she has conducted research with workers from the U.S. Department of State and various organizations in the United States and Latin America. Her work engages and extends theories of relational expertise and status. Currently, she examines the economic and social life of undocumented entrepreneurs in California, as well as asylum seekers living in shelters in New York City who are starting their own businesses.
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