Her research interests include: critical ethnic studies, race and ethnicity, comparative im/migration, and Chicana/Latina feminism. Dr. García’s research explores Latina/o/x immigration activism (1965-1986). She engages oral histories and archival research to document the youth activism undertaken by members of the Chicago chapter of the Center for Autonomous Social Action (CASA), one of the most important immigrant rights organizations to emerge from the Chicano Movement. CASA-Chicago youth in the 1970s conceptualized a “sin fronteras politics” as a transnational imagining that brought ethnic Mexicans together, regardless of birthplace, generation, or citizenship status