The annual meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) take place this coming week (April 17-20, 2024) in Columbus, Ohio.

Immigration scams target noncitizens who have few clear avenues when seeking legal help and advice. Scams can take the form of fake...

The annual meeting for the Population Association of America (PAA) takes place next week. I'm co-presenting a research poster with Elena...

Which counties are within 100 miles of any U.S. border? Here's a look at what that looks like. Of course, all Hawaiian and Puerto Rican...

My latest article published by Law & Policy is now available: Pedroza, Juan Manuel. 2022. “Making Noncitizens’ Rights Real: Evidence from...

Today is the official publication date for an edited book on immigration: Longazel, Jamie, and Miranda Cady Hallett, eds. Migration and...

On Thursday, I presented research I conducted with long-time collaborator Beth Mattingly (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston*) at the Annual...

As a history major at DePauw University, a 2002-03 senior thesis project took me to Chicago’s libraries in search of anything I could...

Dear Sociology 117M students, After three years of teaching a sociology course on U.S. immigration enforcement and deportations, I've had...

updated 03/16/2022 On Sunday (11/22/2020), the New York Times (11/22/2020) published "Undocumented and Pregnant: Why Women Are Afraid to...

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), the journal of the American Public Health Association, just announced the 2019 papers and...

Next week, I am attending the 2019 Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting. I am presenting research with Paul Chung...

Today, the Annual Review of Public Health officially published “Policies of Exclusion: Implications for the Health of Immigrants and...

Note: I periodically update this post (as identified below), including a section on Covid-19 and immigration enforcement at the end of...

If you've followed immigration enforcement news and research, you're likely familiar with the so-called 287(g) program – named after a...

My article -- Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and “Secure Communities” Deportations -- has just been published...

DemoTrends.Org has just posted my latest blog on language segregation. Here's a quick excerpt: "A renewed focus on Hispanic settlement by...

The March issue of Race and Social Problems published a paper analyzing poverty trends: "Convergence and Disadvantage in Poverty Trends...

My sociology dissertation is titled: Paths to Exclusion: Deportations, Housing Instability, and Scams. I analyze current trends in...

10 years ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) descended on Postville, IA and carried out a massive raid. While working at the...