Lauren Heidbrink is an anthropologist and associate professor of human development at the California State University, Long Beach. She is author of Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014), an ethnography on unaccompanied child migration and detention in the United States. Her second book Migranthood: Youth in a new era of deportation (Stanford University Press 2020; published in Spanish with UNAM-CIMSUR 2021) examines...
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Disciplines
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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UN Countries
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California State University, Long Beach
University, Long Beach, United States
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California State University, Long Beach
University, Long Beach, United States
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California State University, Long Beach
University, Long Beach, United States
AssociateProfessor -
California State University, Long Beach
University, Long Beach, United States
Assistant Professor -
National Louis University
University, Chicago, United States
Assistant Professor -
Young Center, University of Chicago Law School
University, Chicago, United States
Applied Anthropologist
Research
Inclusive Undergraduate Research Opportunities for Undocumented Students
| Authors | Luis Mendiola Luna, Alejandro Beltran, Martha Fuentes, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of First-generation Student Success | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘How Can I Have a Future?’: The Temporal Violence of Deportation
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Intercultural Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Enabling or Subverting Legal Violence? Expert Witnesses in Immigration Proceedings
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Annals of Anthropological Practice | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Delia's Return: The Detention and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | American Anthropologist | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Unintended Trauma: The Role of Public Health Policy in the Detention of Migrant Children
| Authors | Michele Statz, Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | The Lancet Regional Health - Americas | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Anatomy of a crisis: governing youth mobility through vulnerability
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
A Better “Best Interests”: Immigration Policy in a Comparative Context
| Authors | Michele Statz, Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Law & Policy | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Coercive Power of Debt: Migration and Deportation of Guatemalan Indigenous Youth
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Circulation of care among unaccompanied migrant youth from Guatemala
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Children and Youth Services Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Integration of unaccompanied migrant youth in the United States: a call for research
| Authors | Jodi Berger Cardoso, Kalina Brabeck, Dennis Stinchcomb, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Charting Directions for Research on Immigrant Children Affected by Undocumented Status
| Authors | Luis H. Zayas, Kalina M. Brabeck, Laurie Cook Heffron, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Assessing Parental Fitness and Care for Unaccompanied Children
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Parents of global youth: contesting debt and belonging
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink, Michele Statz |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Children's Geographies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Chapter 8 At a Crossroads: Youth at the Intersection of the Family and the State
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2012 |
| Book Title | Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Borders
| Authors | Lauren D. Heidbrink |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Denouncing Medical Practices that Imperil Unaccompanied Youth
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink, Sarah Diaz |
| Journal Name | HPHR Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Containing futures: the governance of youths’ migratory aspirations in comparative context
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |