selected Publications

HONDURAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

• “Honduran Social Movements : Then and Now.” Suyapa Portillo & Cristian Padilla Romero. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics. Edited by Harry E. Vanden and Richard Stahler-Sholk et. al. Oxford University, 2020.

• “Fighting Displacement: The Popular Garifuna Hospital in Honduras.” Suyapa Portillo, Priscilla Cobian, Sona Patel and Luther Castillo Harry. In ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America, David Rockefeller Center, Harvard University. Spring 2017. 

• “Organizing Resistance in Honduras” North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report on the Americas. Fall 2016.

• “Honduras: Refounding the Nation, Building a New Kind of Social Movement.” In Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action from Below, edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRATION

• “Central American Migrants: LGBTI Asylum Cases Seeking Justice and Making History” in Queer and Trans Migration: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention and Deportation. Edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chavez. University of Illinois Press, 2020.

• “Is Guatemala a “Safe third country” for Disposable people?” Linda Alvarez, Suyapa Portillo and Alicia Estrada. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report on the Americas. August 8, 2019.

• “Central Americans under Trump: Uncertainty on Both Sides of the Border,” Suyapa Portillo Villeda and Alicia Miklos. LASA FORUM Magazine, Volume XLVIII: Issue 2, Spring 2017.

• “Honduran Immigrants.” In Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans, edited by Ron Bayor, Vol. 3, 933-968. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood (ABC-CLIO, LLC), 2011. Refereed.

CENTRAL AMERICAN QUEER MIGRATION

• “Trans(formation) of a movement.” Jennicet Gutierrez and Suyapa Portillo. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report on the Americas. December 10, 2018.

• “The “Good,” the “Bad,” and the Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent. Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Eileen Ma, Stacy Macias and Carmen Varela. In Special Issue: Reframing Immigration Reform of Journal Diálogo. Volume 18, No. 2, Fall 2015.

• Honduras LGBTI Landscape Analysis of Political, Economic and Social Conditions. Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Fall 2015. 

• “Pensando ‘Queer:’ Intersecciones Entre/Desde el Márgen de Estados Unidos y América Latina.” In Resentir lo Queer en América Latina: Diálogos Desde/Con el Sur, edited by Santiago Castellanos, Diego Falconi, María Amelia Viteri. Barcelona, Spain: Egales, 2014.  

• “Las ‘cruza-fronteras’: género, sexualidad y migración (el caso de San Pedro Sula).”  Revista Envío. El Progreso, Honduras: Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación. Número Especial, Año 4, Diciembre, 2006.