Today, the Annual Review of Public Health officially published “Policies of Exclusion: Implications for the Health of Immigrants and their Children” (April 1, 2019) by Krista Perreira and me. In the article, we summarize "pathways of influence" that can shape immigrant family health as well as identification and measurement strategies in empirical research. We then review immigrant family health in the context of research on: welfare and health care reform efforts since the 1

Note: I periodically update this post (as identified below), including a section on Covid-19 and immigration enforcement at the end of this post I am teaching a class focused entirely on U.S. immigration enforcement and deportation; its varied histories and contexts, determinants, and consequences across a range of domains below. While preparing the syllabus, I compiled a list of readings whose volume could not possibly fit into a 10-week course. I share the list here in case

If you've followed immigration enforcement news and research, you're likely familiar with the so-called 287(g) program – named after a 1996 change in federal law. The program trains state and local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws alongside federal officials. I first learned about the program in 2007 as a researcher at the Urban Institute when conducting research on the effects of restrictive state laws as well as raids and deportations on immigrant communities. As

My article -- Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and “Secure Communities” Deportations -- has just been published by the Policy Studies Journal​ ​Update: article featured in the following news stories San José Mercury News Hispanic-majority counties as likely to cooperate with ICE as regions with fewer Latinos: study UC Santa Cruz study analyzed Secure Communities data (01/29/2019 by Leonardo Castañeda) EFE Áreas con más latinos estarían apoyando colab

At the 2017 annual meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) this week, I am presenting my dissertation research. A panel on the effects of immigration enforcement includes my paper on the relationship between deportation rates and housing instability. In this post, I highlight another paper from my dissertation: a poster I will be presenting at PAA on immigration legal services fraud. I set out to answer the following: where are scams coming to light, and what r