Next week, I am attending the 2019 Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting. I am presenting research with Paul Chung (Ph.D., congratulations!) on enforcement and disabilities: Later that same day, I am also presenting a poster on language segregation, which debuted on DemoTrends last year. Here is a copy of my poster, and come hear what I found at PAA: Friday, April 12 / 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM • Griffin Hall (Level 2) Poster Session 9 Marriage, Family, Households, &

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

The March issue of Race and Social Problems published a paper analyzing poverty trends: "Convergence and Disadvantage in Poverty Trends (1980–2010): What is Driving the Relative Socioeconomic Position of Hispanics and Whites?" I co-authored the paper with Beth Mattingly (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park). Beth is Director of Research on Vulnerable Families (Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire) and research consultant at Stanford U

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