Dissertations supervised

Tianjian Lai

Barriers to Legal Status Attainment and the Outcomes of Immigrants and their Children, 2023

Molly (Margaret) Fee

Resettled but Displaced: Refugee Incorporation in San Diego, California and Boise, Idaho, 2022

Ian Peacock

The “Guts” of Immigration Law: On the People and Contexts that Shape the Administration of United States Immigration Law, 2022

Andrew Le

The Quest for Mobility: The Constraints of Privatized Migration Control, Opportunistic Brokerage, and Migrant Resistance in Vietnam, 2021

Chiara Galli

Refugee Children or Immigrant Teenagers? The Precarious Rights and Belonging of Central American Unaccompanied Minors in the United States, 2020 

Tahseen Shams

Here, There, and Elsewhere: A Multicentered Relational Framework for Immigrant Identity Formation Based on Global Geopolitical Contexts, 2018

Peter Catron

Immigrant Socioeconomic Mobility in the Age of Mass Migration, 2017

Caitlin Patler

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

Arpi Miller 

Reconciling Americas: Salvadorian immigrant activists and political transnationalism , 2013

Sarah Morando Lakhani

Tears and More Tears: the humanitarian paths to citizenship, 2013

Amada Armenta

Policing Ommigrants: local dilemmas of immigration law enforcement, 2011

Renee Reichl Luthra

The second immigrant generation in Germany, 2010

David Cort

A Reexamination: the role of familial acculturation and parental resources in the process of second generation immigrant assimilation, 2007

David Cook-Martin

Making and Unmaking Nationals: 150 years of migration between Argentina, Italy, and Spain, 2005

David FitzGerald

A Nation of Emigrants?  Statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities, 2005

Nelson Lim

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

Eric Popkin

In search of the Quetzal: Guatemalan Mayan transnational migration and ethnic identity formation, 1998