LAUREN HEIDBRINK, Ph.D., MA/MS Associate Professor • Dept. of Human Development • California State University, Long Beach Lauren.Heidbrink@csulb.edu • www.youthcirculations.com EDUCATION Ph.D. in Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 2010 Dissertation: Negotiating Illegality: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth at the Intersection of Family and the State Committee: Veena Das, Deborah Poole, Pamela Reynolds M.A. in Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 2007 M.A./M.S. in International Public Service Management, DePaul University, 2003 Magna Cum Laude Thesis with Distinction: Integrating Traumatic History: An Unmaking of the Human Rights Apparatus B.A. in City Planning, Latin American Studies, Spanish Literature, University of Virginia, 1998 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic, 1996 APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Development, California State University, Long Beach (2020-present) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human Development, California State University, Long Beach (2016-2020) Chair and Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration, National Louis University (2013-2016) Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, National Louis University (2012-2015) Applied Anthropologist, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, University of Chicago School of Law (2010-2012) Adjunct Faculty, DePaul University, Liberal Studies Program and Dept. of Anthropology (2007-2013) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Douglas Foley Early Career Award, Council on Anthropology and Education, 2019 (1st Runner Up) Fulbright Schuman 70th Anniversary Scholar Award, Greece, Italy, Belgium, and UK, 2018-2019 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2017-2018 Thomas Yamashita Prize, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley, 2018 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, National Louis University, 2013 Teaching and Learning Certificate, DePaul University, 2012 Rights of the Child Award, Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, 2010 Fellow, Program for Latin American Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2006 Fellow, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2005 Fellow, Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2005
MANUSCRIPTS Heidbrink, L. 2021. Migrantidad: La juventud en una nueva era de deportaciones. Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y Centroamérica. (Translation: https://www.cimsur.unam.mx/index.php/publicaciones/recientes) Heidbrink, L. 2020. Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Heidbrink, L. 2014. Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, Human Rights Series. PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Statz, M. and Heidbrink, L. In Press. Unintended Trauma: The Role of Public Health Policy in the Detention of Migrant Children. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. Heidbrink, L., Batz, G. and C. Sánchez. In Press. “Why would anyone leave?”: Development, overindebtedness, and migration in Guatemala. Maya America. Heidbrink, L. and G. Afable. In Press. Delia’s Return: The detention and deportation of unaccompanied children. American Anthropologist. Heidbrink, L. 2020. Anatomy of a Crisis: Governing Youth Mobility through Vulnerability. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1797479. Statz, M. and L. Heidbrink. 2019. A Better “Best Interests”: Immigration Policy in a Comparative Context. Law and Policy 41(4): 365-386. Heidbrink, L. 2019. The Coercive Power of Debt: Migration and Deportation of Guatemalan Indigenous Youth. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 24(1): 263-281. Heidbrink, L. 2018. Circulation of care among unaccompanied migrant youth from Guatemala. Children and Youth Services Review 92: 30-38. Cardoso, J., K. Brabeck, D. Stinchcomb, D. Birman, L. Heidbrink, O. Price, and L. Zayas. 2017. Integration of unaccompanied migrant youth in the United States: a call for research. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(2): 273-292. Heidbrink, L. 2017. Assessing Parental Fitness and Care for Unaccompanied Children. Journal of the Social Sciences 3(4): 37-52. Zayas, L.; K. Brabeck; L. Heffron; J. Dreby; E. Calzada; J. Parra-Cardona; A. Dettlaff; L. Heidbrink; K. Perreira; H. Yoshikawa. 2017. Charting Directions for Research on Undocumented and Unaccompanied Immigrant Children and Citizen Children. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 39(4): 412-435. Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2017. Parents of Global Youth: Contesting Debt and Belonging. Children’s Geographies 15(5): 545-557. Langtiw, C. and L. Heidbrink. 2016. Removal, betrayal, and resistance: Comparative analysis of black youth in the U.S. and Haitian-descendant youth in the Dominican Republic. Community Psychology in Global Perspective 2(2): 40-55. Heidbrink, L. 2015. Unintended Consequences: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Journal of Applied Research on Children 5(2): Article 2, 1-29. Heidbrink, L. 2013. Humanitarian Refugee or Criminal Alien?: The Social Agency of Migrant Youth. American Bar Association Children’s Legal Rights Journal 33(1): 133-190.
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Heidbrink, L. 2010. Recasting the Agency of Unaccompanied Youth. In Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances: Selected Proceedings of the Working Group on Childhood and Migration June 2008 Conference. Edited by R. Reynolds, et al., Philadelphia: Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences and the Drexel iDea Repository. 2010. CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES Heidbrink, L. In Press. Cultural Elaboration of Care: Mobility among Indigenous Youth in Guatemala. In Children on the Move: Unsettling narratives of care, childhood, & the migration ‘crisis’. Edited by R. Rosen, E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. Chase, S. Crafter and S. Mitra. London: University College of London Press. Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2021. Youth Circulations: Tracing the real and imagined circulations of global youth. In Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: Approaches to Research in a Global Context. Edited by F. Vavrus, M. Maynes & D. Levison. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Heidbrink, L. 2020. Benevolent Complicity: The detention of unaccompanied children. In Diverse Unfreedoms and their Ghosts: Interrogations, Transitions, Legacies, and Reimaginings. Edited by K. Green, C. Coe and S. Balagopalan. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Heidbrink, L. 2019. Acts of Removal. In Il/legal Encounters: Migration, Detention, and Deportation in the Lives of Young People. Edited by D. Boehm and S. Terrio. New York: New York University Press. Richardson, W., L. Heidbrink and A. Muhammed. 2015. Black Learning Matters: Experiences of Exclusion and Lessons for Inclusion of Students of Color in Higher Education. In RIP Jim Crow: Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions. Series: Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, & Praxis. Edited by V. Stead. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Heidbrink, L. 2012. At a Crossroads: Youth at the Intersection of the Family and the State. In Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights. Edited by R. Sollund. UK: Emerald Press. POLICY REPORTS AND DELIVERABLES Heidbrink, L. 2020, September. El Poder Coactivo de la Deuda: La migración y deportación de jóvenes indígenas. Organization of American States. Heidbrink, L., G. Batz, & C. Sanchez. 2017. Almolonga: Informe Comunitario/Almolonga: A Community Report. Funded by National Science Foundation. Art exhibition, “Migration and Belonging: Narratives from a Highland Town/Migración y Pertenencia: Narrativas de un pueblo del altiplano.” • Municipalidad de Almolonga, Guatemala, 2018 • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 2018 • Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2018 • Michelle Obama Library, Long Beach, CA, 2017 • Emotional Geographies, American Association of Geographers, Long Beach, CA, 2017 • University of California, Los Angeles, 2017 Heidbrink, L. 1997. National Non-governmental Organization Report on the Situation of Argentine Women Since the Beijing Conference on Women. In The Committee
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Monitoring the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of the United Nations. PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY Frank Vitale, A. and Heidbrink, L. 2021, May 24. The Real Root Cause of Central American Migration. In These Times. https://inthesetimes.com/article/border-crisis-imperialismroot-causes-central-america Anthropologist Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees. 2020. What International Student Services can learn from Undocumented Students. Society for Applied Anthropology. https://www.appliedanthro.org/publications/news/august-2020/aanir-statement-sevp. Heidbrink, L. and A. Grewe. 2020. Dual Crisis: Health and Fear in Guatemala. Youth Circulations. Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2019. The Blame Game: Criminalizing migrant parents. Youth Circulations. Heidbrink, L., W. Duncan, and K. Yarris. 2019. Webinar: Providing Expert Testimony: Promises and Pitfalls of Engaging in Immigration Proceedings. Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Statz, M. and L. Heidbrink. 2018. Migration as Clickbait. Anthropology News 59(1), e117e122. Heidbrink, L. 2018. Radicalizing Tensions Between Fascism and Solidarity in Italy: Parts I and II. Youth Circulations. Duncan, W., L. Heidbrink, and K. Yarris. 2018. Im/migration in the Era of Trump; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology. Heidbrink, L. 2018. Care in Contexts of Child Detention; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology. Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2018. The Blame Game: Criminalizing migrant parents. Youth Circulations. Heidbrink, L., W. Duncan, and K. Yarris. 2018. Webinar: Immigration in the Trump Era. Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association. Heidbrink, L. 2018. Radicalizing Tensions: Between Fascism and Solidarity in Italy. Youth Circulations. Yarris, K.; L. Heidbrink; and W. Duncan. 2017. Townhall: Protecting Immigrant and Undocumented Students. Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association. Yarris, K.; L. Heidbrink; and W. Duncan. 2016. Protecting Undocumented Students PostElection: From meeting to action. Working together to support our students. Anthropology News 57(12): e29-e33 Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2014, June. Opinion: Real help for immigrant children. LA Times. Castañeda, H.; L. Heidbrink; and K. Yarris. 2014, September. From Alienation to Protection: Central American Child Migration. Access Denied. Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2014, September. Widening the Frame: Unaccompanied Youth. Anthropology of Children and Youth. Anthropology of Childhood and Youth Interest Group. ENCYCLOPEDIA Heidbrink, L. 2019. Borders. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Edited by Carol Greenhouse. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
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BOOK REVIEWS Heidbrink, L. 2016. Review: Ayten Gundogdu, Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants, New York: Oxford University Press. Political Science Quarterly 131(4): 888-890. Heidbrink, L. 2016. Interdisciplinary Provocations: Critiques and debates on detention and deportation. Review of The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses. Edited by D. Kanstroom and M. Brinton Lykes New York: NYU Press. PsycCRITIQUES 61(30). GRANTS Environmental Justice and Resilience in Indigenous and Immigrant Communities in Long Beach, CSULB Research Foundation ($15,000, Co-PI: House-Peters, Heidbrink, Gregor. 20192021) Scholarly Intersections Grants, CSULB College of Liberal Arts ($1,000, 2019-2020) Child Migration in a Comparative Context, Professors Around the World, CSULB ($2,500, 20182019) Immigrant Youth in Long Beach, President's Commission on the Status of Women, CSULB ($250, 2019) Scholarly Intersections Grants, CSULB College of Liberal Arts ($2,000, 2018-2019) Understanding Borders, CSULB College of Liberal Arts ($2,000, 2018-2019) From Almolonga to Portland: Digital narratives of deportation, Small Faculty Grant, CSULB College of Liberal Arts ($5,000, 2017-2018) Scholarly Intersections Grants, CSULB College of Liberal Arts ($2,000, 2017-2018) Negotiated Returns: Migration and Deportation of Unaccompanied Youth, Humanities Research Stimulation Award, CSULB College of Liberal Arts ($1,000, 2016-2017) Scholarly Intersections Grant, CSULB College of Liberal Arts ($1,000, 2016-2017) Undocumented, Unaccompanied, and Citizen: Charting Research Directions for Children of Immigration, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (Consultant, PI: Zayas, U. of Texas, 2016) The Deportation and Social Reintegration of Migrant Children in Guatemala, National Science Foundation Law and Social Sciences and National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology ($197,000, 2015-2018) Gender, Citizenship and Global Surrogacy, Faculty Seed Grant, National Louis University ($7,500, 2015) Deportation of Guatemalan Youth, Faculty Seed Grant, National Louis University ($7,500, 2014) Early Career Workshop Grant, Law and Society Association ($750, 2013) Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner Gren Foundation ($20,000, 2008-2009) Dissertation Award, National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Program ($12,000, 2008) PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP Co-founder and Track Chair, Youth and Childhood Studies, Latin American Studies Association, 2018-2019 Co-founder and Editor, Youth Circulations, www.youthcirculations.com, 2014-present Co-founder, Anthropologist Action Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2016-present Convener, Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, 2016-2018 Co-facilitator, Global Youth Mobilities, Collaborative Research Network, ACYIG, 2015-present
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Board Member, Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, 2014-2019 Membership Coordinator, Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, 2013-2014 Expert, Best Interest Determination Panels, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago School of Law, 2012-2015 Consultant, Heartland Alliance International Programs, 2012-2013 Consultant, Adler School of Professional Psychology, 2012-2013 Consultant, Northwestern University Mental Health Human Rights Clinic, 2013 Consultant, Immigrant Rights Clinic, Stanford University School of Law, 2012 Consultant, Mercy Home for Girls and Boys, 2011-2013 Volunteer, Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, 2008-2016 SERVICE TO PROFESSION Awards Committee, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, U. of California, Berkeley, 2021 Reviewer, Journal of Human Trafficking, 2021 Reviewer, Political and Legal Anthropology, 2014, 2021 Reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies, 2020-2021 Reviewer, Bristol University Press/Policy Press, 2020 Reviewer, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020 Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 2020 Reviewer, Law and Society Review, 2020 Reviewer, Rutgers University Press, 2020 Reviewer, Children and Youth Services Review, 2017-2020 Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2020 Reviewer, Medical Anthropology, 2020 Reviewer, American Anthropologist, 2020 Reviewer, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019-2020 Conference Co-Chair, “UndocU 2.0,” California State University, Long Beach, April 2020 (Postponed due to Covid-19) Reviewer, NYU Press, 2019-2020 Reviewer, Anthropology and Humanism, 2019-2020 Reviewer, German Research Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2019 Reviewer, Social Science and Medicine, 2019 Conference Co-Chair, “UndocU: Reimagining Institutions, Advocacy, and Belonging with Undocumented Students and Mixed Status Families,” California State University, Long Beach, May 2019 Editorial Board Member, Critical Perspectives on Youth Series, New York University Press, 2018-present Reviewer, Childhood, 2019 Reviewer, Stanford University Press, 2018-2019 Conference Co-Chair, “Youth On The Move: Reframing And Representing Youth Migration,” African Centre Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018 Reviewer, Cultural Anthropology, 2017 Conference Co-Chair, “Childhoods In Motion” Conference sponsored by the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, Council on Anthropology and Education, and UCLA’s Center for the Study of International Migration, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
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Reviewer, Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2016 Reviewer, Anthropological Quarterly, 2011-2012, 2016 Reviewer, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 2015 Reviewer, Geopolitics Journal, 2015 Reviewer, Ethos Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, 2015 Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 2014-present Reviewer, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2014 Reviewer, Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, 2014-2015 INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE 2021-present Research, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, Human Development, CSULB 2019-present University Fulbright Committee, CSULB 2020 Dream Success Center Director Search Committee, CSULB 2019-2020 Human Development website manager, CSULB 2019-2020 Department Representative, College of Liberal Arts Faculty Council, CSULB 2019-2020 Human Development Curriculum Committee, CSULB 2017-present University Advisory Board, Dream Success Center , CSULB 2017-2021 Co-Drafter and Co-Facilitator, UndocuAlly-Training, CSULB 2019 Dream Success Center Assistant Director Search Committee, CSULB 2017-2019 Human Development Faculty Search Committee (3 lines), CSULB 2016-2019 Founder and Chair, Human Development Research Seminar Series, CSULB 2016-2017 Human Development Awards Committee, CSULB 2016-2017 Human Development Grade Appeals Committee, CSULB 2015-2016 Interim Chair, Department of Social Sciences, NLU 2015-2016 Public Policy and Administration Search Committee (2 lines), NLU 2015-2016 Faculty Sponsor, Student Government, NLU 2014-2016 University Research and Strategies and Implementation, NLU 2014-2016 Faculty Sponsor, Students for Public Policy Club, NLU 2014-2016 Department Chair, Public Policy and Administration, NLU 2014-2016 Founder and Chair, Public Policy and Administration Practitioners Lecture Series, NLU 2013-2016 Coordinator, Social and Behavioral Sciences Adjunct Hiring, NLU 2013-2015 Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Council, NLU 2012-2016 University Institutional Research Review Board, NLU 2015-2016 Co-Chair, Global Social Policy Doctoral program development, NLU 2012-2014 University Leadership Council, NLU 2012-2014 Undergraduate Coordinator, Applied Behavioral Sciences, NLU 2012-2013 College of Art and Sciences Curriculum Council, NLU SELECT PRESENTATIONS Guest lecturer, “Re-imagining Publicly-Engaged Ethnography,” Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 2021 (Invited, Virtual) Panelist, “Publicly-engaged Scholarship: Youth Circulations,” Comparative International Education Society, American University, Washington, DC, March 2021 (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, “Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation” Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College, Boston, MA, March 2021 (Invited, Virtual)
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Guest lecturer, “The future of U.S. development aid id in Central America,” Long Beach Area Peace Network, Long Beach, CA, March 2021 (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, “Youth Circulations: Public discourses and the demand for public scholarship,” School of Architecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, March 2021 (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, “Migranthood,” Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, March 2021 (Invited, Virtual) Presenter, “Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation,” U. of California, Los Angeles’ Center for the Study of International Migration/U. of California, San Diego’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, December 2020 (Keynote, Virtual) Guest lecturer, “Migranthood,” Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 2020 (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, “Migranthood,” Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 2020 (Invited, Virtual) Panelist, “Engaged Anthropology with (Im)migrant Communities during the Coronavirus Pandemic,”American Anthropological Association, November 2020 (Refereed, Virtual) Presenter, ““How can I have a future?”: Post-deportation among Indigenous Youth in Guatemala,” Here and Now in Forced Migration: Everyday Intimacies, Imaginaries, and Bureaucracies, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, Guest lecturer, “Migranthood,” College of Law, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 2020 (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, October 2020 (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, Teaching, Learning, Policy, & Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 2020 (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, Department of Human Development, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2020 (Invited, Virtual) Presenter, “Derecha a Vivir en Familia en el contexto de la niñez y adolescencia en situación de movilidad humana,” Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescentes, Organization of American States. Montevideo, Uruguay, May 2020. (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, “Migranthood,” International Studies, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, April 2020. (Invited, Virtual) Guest lecturer, “Debt and Interest: Youth make meaning of migration,” Department of Anthropology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 2020. (Invited, Virtual) Presenter, “Cultural Elaboration of Care: Mobility among Indigenous Youth in Guatemala,” Children on the move: Unsettling narratives of care, childhood, and the migration ‘crisis’ conference, University College of London, London, England, March 2020. (Refereed) Presenter, “A Better Best Interests: Immigration Policy in a Comparative Context,” Children's Best Interests: Advancing a Fundamental Standard in the Treatment of Immigrant Children Symposium, American University Washington College of Law and American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, DC, February 2020. (Invited) Chair & Presenter, “Almolonga: Migration and Deportation in a Highland Town,” Guatemalan Scholars Network, Antigua, Guatemala, July 2019. (Refereed) Presenter, “Migration of Indigenous Maya Youth,” University of Illinois-Urbana CLACS Educators Workshop: Contemporary Mayan Cultures and Languages, Urbana, IL, June 2019. (Invited)
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Organizer & Presenter, “Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People,” Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, Boston, MA, May 2019. (Refereed) Presenter, “The Migration and Deportation of Indigenous Youth,” Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, Los Angeles, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, April 2019. (Invited) Panelist, “Keeping Culture Alive in Guatemala,” U. of Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, CA, April 2019. (Invited) Panelist, "Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People," UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, April 2019. (Invited) Keynote, “Radicalizing Tensions: Between Fascism and Solidarity in Italy,” Fondation IMéRA Institut d'études avancées - Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France, January 2019. (Invited) Organizer & Presenter, “Executive Session: Resistance and Resilience in Contemporary U.S. (Im)migration Movements,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, 2018. (Refereed) Panelist, “Late Breaking Session: Researching Immigrants and Refugees in Rapidly-Changing Contexts” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, 2018. (Refereed) Keynote, “The Coercive Power of Debt: The migration and deportation of Guatemalan indigenous youth,” University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, 2018. (Invited) Presenter, “Best Interests of Unaccompanied Minors: Immigration policy in a global context,” Migration across Global Regimes of Childhood, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2018. (Invited) Presenter, “Youth Circulations: Tracing the real and imagined circulations of youth,” Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain, 2018. (Refereed) Presenter, “Parents of global youth: Contesting debt and belonging,” University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018. (Refereed) Keynote, “The Status of Unaccompanied Children in the U.S.: Past and Present,” School of Social Work, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2018. (Invited) Keynote, “Negotiating Returns: The migration and deportation of unaccompanied children in Guatemala,” Department of Anthropology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2018. (Invited) Presenter, “The Status of Unaccompanied Children in the U.S.: Past and Present,” Wayne Morse Center, School of Law, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February 2018. (Invited) Presenter, “Status of Child Migration in Central America,” U.S. Department of State and USAID, Washington, DC, 2017. (Invited) Organizer & Panelist, “Executive Session: Engaged Anthropology with Undocumented and Immigrant Students in the Trump Era,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC 2017. (Refereed) Presenter, “Immigration Politics after the Elections,” Society for Applied Anthropology’s Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, March 2017. (Refereed) Presenter, “Childhoods in Motion: Children, Youth, Migration, and Education,” Conference of Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG), UCLA’s Center for the Study of International Migration, Council on Anthropology and Education, Los Angeles, CA, March 2017. (Refereed)
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Organizer & Presenter, “Late-breaking Session: Protecting Undocumented Students,” American Anthropologist Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2016. (Refereed) Organizer & Presenter, “Contestations of Care: The migration and deportation of Guatemalan youth,” American Anthropologist Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2016. (Refereed) Keynote, John Wozniak Annual Lecture, “Crossing Borders: Lessons from Unaccompanied Migrant Youth,” School of Education, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2016. (Invited) Organizer & Presenter, “Contested Care, Divided Interests: Unaccompanied Children in ORR Custody,” Undocumented, Unaccompanied, and Citizen: Charting Research Directions for Children of Immigration Conference, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, 2016. (Invited) Organizer & Presenter, “Encountering Culture: Imaginaries of and by Global Youth,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2015. (Refereed) Presenter, “Humanitarian Refugee or Criminal Alien?: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth,” School of Public Administration, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, “Unaccompanied Children and Youth: Care and Contested Interests,” Program of Teaching and Learning, School of Education, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, “Unaccompanied Migrant Children: A Contextualization,” Symposium: Cross-Border Migration of Unaccompanied Minors: Prospects for Legislative and Policy Reform, Northern Illinois University School of Law, DeKalb, IL, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, Department of International Social Work, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, ‘The Deportation and Social Reintegration of Youth,” Department of Central American Studies, California State University-Riverside, Riverside, CA, 2015. (Invited) Organizer & Presenter, “The Currency of Care: Migration, Remittances, & Debt among Maya Youth,” Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group Bi-annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, 2015. (Refereed) Presenter, “Refugee or Criminal Alien? Migrant Youth, Social Agency, and Human Rights,” School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, “Unaccompanied Children: Contested Care, Divided Interests,” Center for the Study of International Migration, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, “Unaccompanied Children: Contested Care, Divided Interests,” Departments of Sociology and Political Science, California State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, CA 2015. (Invited) Presenter, “Unaccompanied Children: Contested Care, Divided Interests,” Cultural Impact Conference, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, “Research Briefing: Central American Migrant Children and Youth,” Office of International Migration, Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, 2015. (Invited) Presenter, “Unaccompanied Migrant Children,” Department of Anthropology, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, 2014. (Invited)
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Organizer & Presenter, “The Currency of Care: Migration, Remittances, & Debt among Maya Youth,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2014. (Refereed) Presenter, “Unaccompanied Migrant Youth: Immigration law’s loose grip,” Northern Illinois University College of Law, DeKalb, IL, 2014. (Invited) Presenter, “Policy puzzles: Child and Family Migration,” Public Policy Practitioners’ Series, National Louis University, Chicago, IL, 2014. (Invited) Presenter, “Teach In: The Child Migrant: Children Crossing Borders,” Center for Human Rights of Children at Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2014. (Invited) Presenter, “Mental health needs of youth migrants,” Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, Chicago, IL, 2014. (Invited) Presenter, “The Circulation of Care: New Patterns of Young Migration from Guatemala,” Law and Society’s Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2014. (Refereed) Presenter, “Collisions of Debt and Interests: Youth negotiations of (in)debt(ed) migration,” Symposium on Children and Globalization: Issues, Policies and Initiatives, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2014. (Invited) Presenter, “’Hemos Sufrido Tanto’: Transgenerational and Intergenerational Debt and Belonging among Transnational Youth,” Anthropology of Child and Youth Interest Group Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, 2014. (Refereed)
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