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vanessadelgado.bsky.social
Sociologist. I study immigrant families, Latino/a children of immigrants, coming of age, and undocumented/mixed-status families. vanessadelgado.com
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ICYMI: "Caught in the Dragnet: How Punitive Immigration Laws Harm Community Helpers" (2023) by @stephcanizales.bsky.social explores how spillover effects impact the lawyers, doctors, social workers, & advocates who work w/ non-citizens, incl. unaccompanied minors, in the U.S. tinyurl.com/FEADragnet

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My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...

submitted 71 days ago • 21 comments

Elated to share that the dream team @stephcanizales.bsky.social, @drmirianma.bsky.social, Silvia Rodriguez Vega and I are getting ~$1.6 million from UCOP MRPI for our project Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures. Stay tuned for seed grants to CA scholars, artists, and activists!

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Research finds that brokering is a gendered practice, with girls brokering more than boys. But are there gender differences among parents? I find that social roles within the family—which are heavily gendered—shape the kinds of brokering requests made by immigrant parents. Check out my latest 👇

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For #ASA2025, I am organizing the regular session on internal migration. If you have new work in this area, please consider submitting! Here's the call: www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

You can learn more about how legal status shapes financial contributions of young adults from my latest piece out now in Social Problems academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Adult children of undocumented immigrants feel greater pressure to financially contribute to their families. I had a chance to present a flash talk @ccfamilies.bsky.social on this research and you can check it out below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZB...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Registration is now open for the 2025 Conference on Im/migrant Well-Being! Join us February 14th in St. Petersburg, FL to hear from sociologists, public health experts & more on the intersection of policy & the lived experiences of #immigrants. Register: iwbcollab.org/2025-conference-registration

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