Articles

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Table of contents:

Undocumented Young Adults and Mixed-Status Families 

Educational Pathways and Undocumented Student Equity

Mental Health and Undocumented Student Equity

Intersectionality and Diverse Experiences of Immigrant Illegality

Immigrant Youth Social Movements and Political Engagement

Social Justice-Oriented Research Approaches

Other Publications


Undocumented Young Adults and Mixed-Status Families

Enriquez, Laura E. 2020. Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and Family. University of California Press. (open access e-book)

Enriquez, Laura E. 2017. “Gendering Illegality: Undocumented Young Adults’ Negotiation of the Family Formation Process.” American Behavioral Scientist 61(10):1153-1171. (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E. 2016. “‘Nomas Cásate’ / ‘Just Get Married’: How Legalization Pathways Shape Mixed-Status Relationships.” In Beyond Black and White A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations. Edited by Zulema Valdez. Sage.

Enriquez, Laura E. 2015. “Multigenerational Punishment: Shared Experience of Undocumented Immigration Status within Mixed-Status Families.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 77(4):939-953.

Educational Experiences and Undocumented Student Equity

Enriquez, Laura E. et al. 2021. “Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey.” Journal of Latinos and Education 20(3): 215-231. (open access version)

Chavarria, Karina, Monica Cornejo, Cecilia Ayón, and Laura E. Enriquez. 2021. “Disrupted Education?: A Latent Profile Analysis of Immigration-Related Distractions and Academic Engagement among Undocumented College Students.” Journal of Latinos and Education 20(3): 232-245. (open access version)

Morales Hernandez, Martha and Laura E. Enriquez. 2021. “Life After College: Liminal Legality and Political Threats as Barriers to Undocumented Students’ Career Preparation Pursuits.” Journal of Latinos and Education 20(3): 318-331. (open access version)

Sarabia, Heidy, Laura E. Enriquez, Victoria E. Rodriguez, Laura Zaragoza, and Sonia Tinoco. 2021. “What Helps Students Get Help?: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors that Shape Undocumented College Students’ Use of Academic Support Services.” Journal of Latinos and Education 20(3): 290-303. (open access version)

Valadez, Mercedes, Cecilia Ayón, Laura E. Enriquez, and Julián Jefferies. 2021. “Legal Vulnerability and Campus Environment: Assessing Factors that Affect the Academic Engagement of Undocumented College Students.” Journal of Latinos and Education 20(3): 276-289. (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E., William E. Rosales, Karina Chavarria, Martha Morales Hernandez, and Mercedes Valadez. 2021. “COVID on Campus: Assessing the Impact of the Pandemic on Undocumented College Students.” AERA Open 7: 1-19.

Enriquez, Laura E, Martha Morales Hernandez,  Daniel Millán, and Daisy Vazquez Vera. 2019. “Mediating Illegality: Federal, State, and Institutional Policies in the Educational Experiences of Undocumented College Students.” Law & Social Inquiry 44(3): 679-703. (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E. 2017. “A “Master Status” or the “Final Straw”? Assessing the Role of Immigration Status in Latino Undocumented Youths’ Pathways Out of School.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(9):1526-1543.(open access version)

Salinas Velasco, Carlos, Trisha Mazumder, and Laura E. Enriquez. 2015. ““It’s Not Just a Latino Issue”: Policy Recommendations to Better Support a Racially Diverse Population of Undocumented Students.” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 11(1):1-11.

Enriquez, Laura E. 2011.“‘Because We Feel the Pressure and We Also Feel the Support’: Examining the Educational Success of Undocumented Immigrant Latina/o Students.” Harvard Educational Review 81(3):476-500.

Mental Health and Undocumented Student Equity

Ayón, Cecilia, Basia D. Ellis, Melissa J. Hagan, Laura E. Enriquez, and Carly Offidani-Bertrand. 2022. “Mental Health Help-Seeking Among Undocumented College Students.” Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. (open access version)

Cornejo, Monica, Cecilia Ayón, and Laura E. Enriquez. 2022. “A Latent Profile Analysis of U.S. Undocumented College Students’ Advocacy Communication Strategies and its Relationship with Health.” Journal of Applied Communication Research. (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E., Alberto E. Morales, Victoria E. Rodriguez, Karina Chavarria, and Annie Ro. 2022. “Mental Health and COVID-19 Pandemic Stressors among Latina/o/x College Students with Varying Self and Parental Immigration Status.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

Ro, Annie, Victoria E. Rodriguez, and Laura E. Enriquez. 2021. “Physical and Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic among College Students who are Undocumented or have Undocumented Parents.” BMC Public Health 21: 1-10.

Velarde Pierce, Sharon, Alein Y. Haro, Cecilia Ayón, and Laura E. Enriquez. 2021. “Evaluating the Effect of Legal Vulnerabilities and Social Support on the Mental Health of Undocumented College Students.” Journal of Latinos and Education 20(3): 246-259. (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E., William E. Rosales, Karina Chavarria, Martha Morales Hernandez, and Mercedes Valadez. 2021. “COVID on Campus: Assessing the Impact of the Pandemic on Undocumented College Students.” AERA Open 7: 1-19.

Cha, Biblia, Laura E. Enriquez and Annie Ro. 2019. “Beyond Access: Psychosocial Barriers to Undocumented Students’ Use of Mental Health Services.” Social Science & Medicine 233: 193-200. (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E, Martha Morales Hernandez, and Annie Ro. 2018. “Deconstructing Immigrant Illegality: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Stress and Health among Undocumented College Students.” Race and Social Problems 10(3): 193-208. (view only version)

Intersectionality and Diverse Experiences of Immigrant Illegality

Enriquez, Laura E. and Daniel Millán. 2021. “Situational Triggers and Protective Locations: Conceptualising the Salience of Deportability in Everyday Life.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E, Daisy Vazquez Vera, and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan. 2019. “Driver’s Licenses for All?: Racialized Illegality and the Implementation of Progressive Immigration Policy in California.” Law & Policy 41(1): 34-58. (open access version)

Enriquez, Laura E. 2019. “Border Hopping Mexicans, Law-Abiding Asians, and Racialized Illegality: Analyzing Undocumented College Students’ Experiences through a Relational Lens.” Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice. Edited by Natalia Molina, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and Ramón A. Gutiérrez. University of California Press.

Enriquez, Laura E. 2016. “‘I Talk to Them but I Don’t Know Them’: Undocumented Young Adults Negotiating Belonging in the U.S. through Conversations with Mexico.” In Click and Kin: Transnational Identity and Quick Media. Eds. May Friedman and Silvia Schultermandl. University of Toronto Press.

Immigrant Youth Social Movements and Political Engagement

Rosales, William E., Laura E. Enriquez, and Jennifer R. Nájera. 2021. “Politically Excluded, Undocu-Engaged: The Perceived Effect of Hostile Immigration Policies on Undocumented Student Political Engagement.” Journal of Latinos and Education 20(3): 260-275. (open access version)

Saguy, Abigail C. and Laura E. Enriquez. 2020. “Mobilizing Fearful Constituents.” In Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are: Identity Politics in the 21st Century by Abigail C. Saguy. Oxford University Press.

Enriquez, Laura E. and Abigail C. Saguy. 2015. “Coming Out of the Shadows: Harnessing a Cultural Schema to Advance the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 4(1):107-130.

Enriquez, Laura E. 2014. “‘Undocumented Immigrant and Citizen Students Unite:’ Building a Cross-Status Coalition through Shared Ideology.” Social Problems 61(2):155-174.

Social Justice-Oriented Research Approaches

Enriquez, Laura E. and Gilda L. Ochoa. 2023. “On the Margins of Sociology and Grounded in Chicana/Chicano Latina/Latino Studies: Cross-Generational Reflections on (Un)Disciplining.” Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. Eds. Nadia Kim and Pawan Dhingra. New York University Press.

Enriquez, Laura E. and Martha Morales Hernandez. 2021. “Centering Social Justice in Public Sociology: Lessons from the Undocumented Student Equity Project.” The Routledge International Handbook on Public Sociology. Eds. Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly, Cassius Hossfeld. Routledge.

Other Publications

Donato, Katharine M, Laura E. Enriquez, and Cheryl Llewellyn. 2017. “Frozen and Stalled: Gender and Migration Scholarship in the 21st Century.” American Behavioral Scientist 61(10):1079-1085.

Ochoa, Gilda L, Laura E. Enriquez, Sandra Hamada, and Jenniffer Rojas. 2012. “Constructing Multiple ‘Gap[s]’: Reproducing Divisions and Disparities between Asian Americans and Latinas/os in a California High School.” In Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific. Edited by Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.  University of Nebraska Press.