Publications

  • Gonzales, Roberto G. In press. Assessing Human Capital and Intergenerational Mobility Among 1.5 Generation Undocumented Young Adults. In Poverty, Inequality, and Immigration, David Card and Steven Raphael, eds. New York: Russell Sage.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. In press. “Ni de aqui, ni de alla:” Undocumented immigrant youth and the challenges of identity formation amid conflicting contexts. In Bilateral Perspectives on Mexican Migration: Demographic, Economic and Incorporation Trends, Harriett Romo and Olivia Lopez, eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Gleeson, Shannon, and Roberto G. Gonzales. In press. When do papers matter? An institutional analysis of undocumented life in the United States. International Migration.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G., and Leo R. Chavez. 2012. “Awakening to a Nightmare:” Abjectivity and illegality in the lives of undocumented 1.5 generation Latino immigrants in the United States. Current Anthropology. 53(3). 
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2011. In spite of the odds: Undocumented immigrant youth, school networks, and college success. In Is Becoming an American a Developmental Risk? Cynthia García Coll and Amy Marks, eds. Washington DC: APA Books.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2011. Learning to be illegal: Undocumented youth and shifting legal contexts in the transition to adulthood. American Sociological Review 76(4).
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2011. Where do we go from here? Undocumented youth and an effort requiring the entire village. UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2010. On the wrong side of the tracks: The consequences of school stratification systems for unauthorized Mexican students. Peabody Journal of Education 85(4): 469.
  • Abrego, Leisy J., and Roberto G. Gonzales. 2010. Blocked paths, uncertain futures: The postsecondary education and labor market prospects of undocumented youth. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 15(1): 144-57.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2010. More than just access: Undocumented students navigating the post-secondary terrain. Journal of College Admission (206): 48-52.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2009. Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students (with a foreword by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco.) The College Board.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2009. Vidas jóvenes en espera: Los sueños universitarios de estudiantes indocumentados. (Prólogo de Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco). The College Board.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2009. Why integration matters: Undocumented immigrant youth and making a case for moving beyond enforcement. In The Role of Local Police: Striking A Balance Between Immigration Enforcement and Civil Liberties. The Police Foundation.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2009. Dirty pretty things: The state, global migration and survival in contemporary cities. In Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film, K. Feltey and J. Sutherland, eds. London: Sage Press.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2009. On the rights of undocumented children. Society 46(5): 419-22.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2008. Left out but not shut down: Political activism and the undocumented Latino student movement. Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 3(2): 219-39.
  • Rumbaut, Rubén G., Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, and Charlie V. Morgan. 2008. Inmigración, encarcelamiento y delincuencia en los Estados Unidos de América: La percepción pública frente a la evidencia empírica. In Procesos de infracción de normas y de reacción a la infracción de normas: dos tradiciones criminológicas. Nuevos estudios en homenaje al profesor Alfonso Serrano Gómez, Alfonso Serrano Maíllo y José Luis Guzmán Dálbora, eds. Madrid: Editorial Dykinson.
  • Gonzales, Roberto G. 2007. Wasted talent and broken dreams: The lost potential of undocumented students. Immigration Policy: In Focus 5(13). Immigration Policy Center, of the American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington DC.
  • Rumbaut, Rubén G., Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, and Charlie V. Morgan. 2006. Debunking the myth of immigrant criminality: Imprisonment among first- and second-generation young men. In Migration Information Source, June 1, 2006 (with Rubén G. Rumbaut, Golnaz Komai, and Charlie V. Morgan).
  • Rumbaut, Rubén G., Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, Charlie V. Morgan, and Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada. 2006. Immigration and incarceration: Patterns and predictors of imprisonment among first- and second-generation young adults. In Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race, and Violence, Martinez, R. and A. Valenzuela, eds. New York University Press.

Contact

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