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It's About Time
A new open access paper just came out this week, co-authored with UC Santa Cruz sociology Ph.D. student Elena Losada : Pedroza, Juan M....
Juan M. Pedroza
Feb 52 min read
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The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations
A new article published by the International Migration Review is out now: Pedroza, Juan M., Stephanie Potochnick, and Robert Santillano....
Juan M. Pedroza
Jan 132 min read
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PAA 2011-2024
The annual meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) take place this coming week (April 17-20, 2024) in Columbus, Ohio.
Juan M. Pedroza
Apr 13, 20245 min read
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Immigration Scams
Immigration scams target noncitizens who have few clear avenues when seeking legal help and advice. Scams can take the form of fake...
Juan M. Pedroza
Dec 11, 20233 min read
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How the other half coasts
The annual meeting for the Population Association of America (PAA) takes place next week. I'm co-presenting a research poster with Elena...
Juan M. Pedroza
Apr 6, 20231 min read
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U.S. Counties within 100 miles of border
Which counties are within 100 miles of any U.S. border? Here's a look at what that looks like. Of course, all Hawaiian and Puerto Rican...
Juan M. Pedroza
Aug 3, 20221 min read
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Making Noncitizens’ Rights Real: Evidence from Immigration Scam Complaints
My latest article published by Law & Policy is now available: Pedroza, Juan Manuel. 2022. “Making Noncitizens’ Rights Real: Evidence from...
Juan M. Pedroza
Jan 27, 20224 min read
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Death & Disabilities in Divergent Deportation Contexts
Today is the official publication date for an edited book on immigration: Longazel, Jamie, and Miranda Cady Hallett, eds. Migration and...
Juan M. Pedroza
Jun 21, 20213 min read
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PAA 2021 Poster Award
On Thursday, I presented research I conducted with long-time collaborator Beth Mattingly (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston*) at the Annual...
Juan M. Pedroza
May 11, 20212 min read
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Chicago
As a history major at DePauw University, a 2002-03 senior thesis project took me to Chicago’s libraries in search of anything I could...
Juan M. Pedroza
Dec 23, 20203 min read
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Libros & Lectures
Dear Sociology 117M students, After three years of teaching a sociology course on U.S. immigration enforcement and deportations, I've had...
Juan M. Pedroza
Dec 11, 20207 min read
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Immigrant families, immigration policy, and infant health
updated 03/16/2022 On Sunday (11/22/2020), the New York Times (11/22/2020) published "Undocumented and Pregnant: Why Women Are Afraid to...
Juan M. Pedroza
Nov 25, 20207 min read
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AJPH Papers & Reviewers of the Year
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), the journal of the American Public Health Association, just announced the 2019 papers and...
Juan M. Pedroza
Oct 26, 20191 min read
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PAA 2019
Next week, I am attending the 2019 Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting. I am presenting research with Paul Chung...
Juan M. Pedroza
Apr 3, 20191 min read
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Policies of Exclusion
Today, the Annual Review of Public Health officially published “Policies of Exclusion: Implications for the Health of Immigrants and...
Juan M. Pedroza
Apr 1, 20191 min read
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New UCSC course: enforcement & deportation
Note: I periodically update this post (as identified below), including a section on Covid-19 and immigration enforcement at the end of...
Juan M. Pedroza
Feb 26, 201925 min read
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Where immigration enforcement stalled
If you've followed immigration enforcement news and research, you're likely familiar with the so-called 287(g) program – named after a...
Juan M. Pedroza
Jan 4, 20193 min read
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Deportation Discretion
My article -- Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and “Secure Communities” Deportations -- has just been published...
Juan M. Pedroza
Dec 4, 20185 min read
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Lost in Translation: Language Segregation among Hispanics in the United States
DemoTrends.Org has just posted my latest blog on language segregation. Here's a quick excerpt: "A renewed focus on Hispanic settlement by...
Juan M. Pedroza
Aug 15, 20182 min read
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Decomposing Hispanic-White Poverty Rates
The March issue of Race and Social Problems published a paper analyzing poverty trends: "Convergence and Disadvantage in Poverty Trends...
Juan M. Pedroza
Jul 23, 20187 min read
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