Dissertations supervised
Barriers to Legal Status Attainment and the Outcomes of Immigrants and their Children, 2023
Resettled but Displaced: Refugee Incorporation in San Diego, California and Boise, Idaho, 2022
The “Guts” of Immigration Law: On the People and Contexts that Shape the Administration of United States Immigration Law, 2022
The Quest for Mobility: The Constraints of Privatized Migration Control, Opportunistic Brokerage, and Migrant Resistance in Vietnam, 2021
Refugee Children or Immigrant Teenagers? The Precarious Rights and Belonging of Central American Unaccompanied Minors in the United States, 2020
Here, There, and Elsewhere: A Multicentered Relational Framework for Immigrant Identity Formation Based on Global Geopolitical Contexts, 2018
Immigrant Socioeconomic Mobility in the Age of Mass Migration, 2017
Young and Undocumented: the impacts of legal status on the incorporation of immigrant young adults in California, 2014
Thomas Soehl
Modes of Difference and Connection: language, education and religion in migrant families, 2014
Reconciling Americas: Salvadorian immigrant activists and political transnationalism , 2013
Tears and More Tears: the humanitarian paths to citizenship, 2013
Policing Ommigrants: local dilemmas of immigration law enforcement, 2011
The second immigrant generation in Germany, 2010
A Reexamination: the role of familial acculturation and parental resources in the process of second generation immigrant assimilation, 2007
Making and Unmaking Nationals: 150 years of migration between Argentina, Italy, and Spain, 2005
A Nation of Emigrants? Statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities, 2005
Employers’ attitudes, social division of labor, and human resource practices in hiring low-skilled workers, 2000
Michael Lichter
Race, space, and the employment of less-educated immigrants and natives , 1999
In search of the Quetzal: Guatemalan Mayan transnational migration and ethnic identity formation, 1998