select publications

Forthcoming

Miranda, Magally. “Familiar Interfaces: Norms of Domesticity and Immigrant Latina Workers on Digital Care Work Platforms” In Anthropology of Work Review, Special Issue: Racialization and the Gig Economy.

2025

Akridge, Hunter; Ahmed, Alex; Bàssïbét , Free S.; Miranda Alcázar, Magally A.; Fox, Sarah.“Oh, you’re watching me: Care workers’ experiences of surveillant assemblages on the platform and in the home, New Media and Society, 2025. (read)

2023

Miranda, Magally. “The Future of (Care) Work: Ride-Hailing on the New Terrain of Social Reproduction.” Critical Ethnic Studies, 2023. (read)

2022

Miranda, Magally and Efren Lopez. “Con Che? The Specter of Communism in the 1968 Chicano Blowouts.” In “Unsettled Debts: 1968 and the Problem of Historical Memory.” International Journal of Communication, 2022. (read)

2019

Miranda Alcázar, Magally A. “America’s New Left: The Weakest Link.” New Left Review, Vol. 116 No. 117 , 2019. (read)

2018

Miranda Alcázar, Magally A. “Women Workers Make All Other Work Possible: Latina Immigrant Organizing at the Oakland Domestic Workers’ Center.” Where Freedom Starts: Sex, Power, Violence, #MeToo. New York, NY: Verso Books, 2018, 233-256. (read)

OTHER WRITING

2019

“Care Workers: The Original Gig Workers” in UCLA Center for the Study of Women (read)

2018

“Red for Ed in LA” in Commune Magazine, January 2018. (read)

2017

“Silenced by the Immigration Police: Rapes Go Unreported Under Trump” in Truthout, July 2017. (read)

“The Power of Trabajadoras and the Subversion of Capital:  Notes on a Domestic Workers’ Inquiry” in Viewpoint Magazine, March 2017. (read)

“For a Feminist Movement of the 99%, the Women’s Strike Was Just the Beginning” in Truthout, March 2017. (read)

“Striking on International Women’s Day is Not a Privilege” in The Nation, February 2017. (read)

“Artwashing, or Between Social Practice and Social Reproduction” in A Blade of Grass, February 2017. (read)

2016

“Opinion: Boyle Heights families and small business owners fight back against displacement, and are winning” in Boyle Heights Beat, June 2016. (read)