Research

Publications

Aranda, Elizabeth, Liz Ventura Molina, Elizabeth Vaquera, Emely Matos Pichardo, and Osaro Iyamu. 2025. 鈥淗esitation to Seek Healthcare Among Immigrants in a Restrictive State Context.鈥� MDPI 14 (7): 433. . 

Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, Emely Matos Pichardo, and Liz Ventura. 2025. 鈥淪urvey Shows Immigrants in Florida 鈥� Even US Citizens 鈥� Are Less Likely to Seek Health Care After Passage of Anti-immigrant Laws.鈥� The Conversation. February 21, 2025. .

  • Media coverage: Report quoted by the Tampa Bay Times, February 20, 2025.
  • Media coverage: Research on healthcare hesitation among noncitizens following the implementation of SB 1718 KFF Health News. January 23, 2025.

Aranda, Elizabeth, and Liz Ventura Molina. 2025. 鈥淔lorida鈥檚 New Law on Immigrants May Foreshadow What鈥檚 To Come Nationally | Opinion.鈥� Newsweek. January 22, 2025. https://www.newsweek.com/floridas-new-law-immigrants-may-foreshadow-whats-come-nationally-opinion-2018531

Casta帽eda, Heide, Melanie Escue, and Elizabeth Aranda. 2023. 鈥淎 Lot of People There were Undocumented, or at Least Looked Like Me鈥�: Illegality, Visibility, and Vulnerability among Immigrant Young Adults in Florida. Journal of Cultural Geography 40(2):118-42.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, Heide Casta帽eda, and Girsea Martinez Rosas. 2023. 鈥淯ndocumented Again? DACA Rescission, Emotions, and Incorporation Outcomes among Young Adults.鈥� Social Forces 101(3):1321-342

  • Media coverage: Research on DACA summarized in news article, Tampa Bay Times,        November 3, 2022.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Rebecca Blackwell, Melanie Escue, and Alessandra Rosa. 2023. 鈥淐ascading Disasters: The Impact of Hurricane Maria and Covid-19 on Post-Disaster Puerto Rican Migrants鈥� Adaptation and Integration in Florida.鈥� Latino Studies 21:138-61 (Lead article)

McBrien, Jody. L. 2023. "Psychosocial Challenges at a Refugee Camp: When Volunteer Preparation is Lacking." Displaced Voices: A Journal of Migration, Archives and Cultural Heritage 3(1):69-84.

Mayes, April J., and Kiran C. Jayaram, eds. 2022. "Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies." University Press of Florida.

McBrien, Jody. L. 2022. 鈥淪ocial and Emotional Learning (SEL) of Newcomer and Refugee Students: Beliefs, Practices and Implications for Policies across OECD Countries.鈥� Paris: OECD Working Paper No. 266.

Jayaram, Kiran C. 2022. "Ethnography In鈥怱ight and Sound: Aural Politics and Haitian Mobile Vendors in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic." The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 27(3):227-34.

Jayaram, Kiran, Carla Guerr贸n Montero, Stephan Palmi茅, and Karina Lissette C茅spedes. 2022. "Anthropologies of Our Caribbean Sea of (Is) lands." The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 27(3):186-213.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The Ukrainian crisis: Support for teachers in host countries. August 3, 2022. (written by Jody L. McBrien).

McBrien, Jody L. and Maria Hayward. 2021. 鈥淩efugee-Background Students in New Zealand and the United States: Roots and Results of Educational Policies and Practices.鈥� Journal of Global Education and Research 6(2):133鈥�47.

Paschero, Sofia and Jody L. McBrien 2021. National identity and integration challenges of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Societies 11(24).  

M谩rquez, Alejandro. 2021. 鈥淔amilial Moralities: Moral (Re)source of Commitment in the Immigrant Rights Movement in El Paso, Texas.鈥� Humanity & Society 45(2):225-46.

M谩rquez, Alejandro. 2020. 鈥淒etached Attachments: Burnout and Commitment among Caregivers in the Immigrant Rights Movement.鈥� Critical Sociology 47(4鈥�5):727鈥�43.

Jayaram, Kiran. 2018. "Entre el Estado, El Mercado y la Xenofobia: Los Haitianos Universitarios en la Rep煤blica Dominicana: Este Art铆culo es Dedicado a la Memoria de Rooldine Lindor, Quien Falleci贸 el 12 de Julio de 2011: Que en Paz Descanse." Revista Estudios Sociales 41(156):101-23. 

Jayaram, Kiran C. 2018. "Fruits of Colonialism: The Production of Mangoes as Commodities in Northern Haiti." Critique of Anthropology 38(4):461-82.