Recent studies in the United States show that intergenerational educational mobility is consistently higher (correlation of educational attainment between parents and their children is weaker) …
A growing literature on citizenship and legality argues there is a link between exclusionary immigration policies, legal status assignment, and stratification in the United States. …
This dissertation is about the complex connections between religious faith and migrant inclusion, as experienced by African Pentecostal Christians living in the United Kingdom (UK). …
This dissertation explores the ways in which 19th-century Irish residents of the American Mining West created and maintained community by embracing the saloon as a …
This dissertation is based on five years of ethnographic research into New York and Texas-based immigration courtrooms and detention centers. The period of my research …
How does being an immigrant shape the experience of being deaf and vice versa? Based on approximately two years of ethnographic research among the deaf …
Following the withdrawal from the War in Afghanistan in 2021, a wave of Afghans were paroled into the United States, generating extensive debate in the …
The immigration enforcement system is central to the stratification of young Latino men. I evaluate the consequences of the immigration system—via nativity and the legal …
This dissertation undertakes an examination of the role of monolithic national ‘ordinariness’ in the fin de siècle Bildungsroman. It offers a new reading of the …
Objectives: Current literature has shown that experiences of undocumented or temporary immigration status are associated with negative health outcomes in the United States. Little knowledge …
This dissertation examines college aspiration as a lens onto Latino youth’s claims to socio-political belonging in a nativist United States. In 2012-2013, I conducted ethnographic …
This dissertation consists three quantitative analyses that aim to examine the impact of migration not only on migrants themselves, but also on their young children …
Haitians living with HIV in South Florida have taken the biomedical markers of the virus – detectable and undetectable – and grafted onto this dichotomy …
In this article, I show how the incorporation of the global racial field—the hierarchical understanding of racial groups and geographies—into the non-western local context is …
A state can restrict and select its immigrant pool through a variety of mechanisms such as immigration bans, quota systems, and most recently—visa policy restrictions. …
Intimate relationships are important social relationships for adults, yet research on dating and sex rarely focuses on the experiences of racialized women from immigrant families. …