publications:

Books:

Carney, M.A. In progress. Exit from the United States: Emigration, Carcerality, and Abolition Feminist Futures.

Carney, M.A. 2021. Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean. Oakland: University of California Press.

Carney, M.A. 2015. The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Winner of the 2015 CHOICE award; named one of the “Best Food Insecurity Books” by Healthline in 2017; selected as a California Book for Action in 2018)

Edited Journal Volumes:

Carney, M.A., Gálvez, A., Amoah, S., and A. Atoloye. In progress. Topic Editors for Special Issue “Dietary Transformations and Health Implications Among Migrant Populations.” Frontiers in Nutrition.

Sangaramoorthy, T. and Carney, M.A. 2021. Guest Editors for Special Issue. “Introduction to Special Issue: Immigration, Mental Health, and Psychosocial Wellbeing.” Medical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2021.1931174

Articles & Chapters:

Carney, M.A., Vannini, S., Genovese, A., Saguto, D., Jammeh, M., Deme, I. 2025. “‘Il gioco’ as knowledge co-production: Feminist and antiracist musings on the power of play.” Annals of Anthropological Practice DOI:10.1111/napa.12230

Carney, M.A. 2024. “The Climate-Food-Migration Nexus: Critical Perspectives.” Global Food Security.

Carney, M.A. and Krause, K. 2020. “Immigration/migration and healthy publics: the threat of food insecurity.” Palgrave Communications, an open access journal of Springer Nature. 6. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0461-0

Vannini, S., Gomez, R., Carney, M.A., Mitchell, K. 2018. “Interdisciplinary approaches to refugee and migration studies: Lessons from collaborative research on sanctuary in the changing times of Trump.” Migration and Society: Advances in Research 1(1): 164-174.

Carney, M.A. 2017. “‘Sharing One’s Destiny’: Effects of Austerity on Migrant Health Provisioning in the Mediterranean Borderlands.” Social Science and Medicine 187: 251-258. (Winner of the 2017 Rudolf Virchow Award)

Carney, M.A., Gomez, R., Mitchell, K., and Vannini, S. 2017. “Sanctuary Planet: A Global Sanctuary Movement for the Time of Trump.” Society and Space. http://societyandspace.org/2017/05/16/sanctuary-planet-a-global-sanctuary-movement-for-the-time-of-trump/.

Carney, M.A. 2017. “‘Back There We Had Nothing to Eat’: Mexican and Central American Households in the U.S. and Transnational Food Security.” International Migration 55(4): 64-77.

Carney, M.A. 2017. “Sickness in the Detention System: Syndemics of Mental Distress, Malnutrition, and Immigration Stigma in the United States.” Stigma Syndemics: New Directions in Biosocial Health, Lerman, S., Ostrach, B, and Singer, M. (eds.). Landham: Lexington Press.

Carney, M.A. 2015. “Eating and Feeding at the Margins of the State: Barriers to Healthcare for Undocumented Migrant Women and the ‘Clinical’ Aspects of Food Assistance.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29(2): 196-215.

Carney, M.A. 2014. “‘You Want to Feed Your Family, Don’t You?’ Exploring the Consequences of Economic Crisis for Everyday Food Practices in Immigrant Communities.” Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism 1(2): 5-23.

Carney, M.A. 2014. “The Biopolitics of ‘Food Insecurity’: Towards a Critical Political Ecology of the Body in Studies of Women’s Transnational Migration.” Journal of Political Ecology 21: 1-18.

Carney, M.A. 2014. “La Lucha Diaria”: Migrant Women in the Fight for Healthy Food. In Women Redefining Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table, Janet Page-Reeves (ed.). Landham: Lexington Press.

Carney, M.A. 2013. “Border Meals: Detention Center Feeding Practices, Migrant Subjectivities, and Questions on Trauma.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 13(4): 32-46.