Selected Publications
Gonzales, Roberto G. and Stephen P. Ruszczyk. 2021. “The Legal Status Divide among the Children of Immigrants." Dædalus 150:135-149.
Gonzales, Roberto G., Kristina Brant, and Benjamin Roth. 2020. “DACAmented in the Age of Deportation: Navigating Spaces of Belonging and Vulnerability in Social and Personal Lives.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43:60-71.
Gonzales, Roberto G., Nando Sigona, Martha C. Franco, and Anna Papoutsi. 2019. Undocumented Migration. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Zhou, Min and Roberto G. Gonzales. 2019. “Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing Up in America.” American Review of Sociology 45:1:383-399.
Ellis, Basia D., Roberto G. Gonzales, and Sarah A. Rendón García. 2019. “The Power of Inclusion: Theorizing “Abjectivity” and Agency under DACA. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 19(3):161-172.
Gonzales, Roberto G., Basia Ellis, Sarah Rendon-Garcia, and Kristina Brant. 2018. “(un)Authorized Transitions: Illegality, DACA, and the Life Course.” Research in Human Development 15(3-4):345-359.
Gonzales, Roberto G. and Edelina Burciaga. 2018. "Segmented Pathways of Illegality: Reconciling the Co-existence of Master and Auxiliary Statuses in the Experiences of 1.5 Generation Undocumented Young Adults." Ethnicities 18:178-191.
Gonzales, Roberto G. and Nando Sigona. 2017. Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, Membership and Belonging. New York: Routledge.
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu, Carola S. Suarez-Orozco, and Roberto G. Gonzales. 2017. “Unauthorized Status and Youth Development in the United States: Consensus Statement of the Society for Research in Adolescence.” Journal of Research on Adolescence 27(1):4-19.
Gonzales, Roberto G. and Steven Raphael. 2017. “Illegality: A Contemporary Portrait.” Russell Sage Foundation Journal 3(4).
Gonzales, Roberto G. 2016. Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America. Oakland: University of California Press.
Trieu, Monica, Nicholas Vargas, and Roberto G. Gonzales. 2016. “Transnational Patterns among Asian American and Latina/o American Children of Immigrants from Southern California.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42(7): 1177-1198.
Gonzales, Roberto G., Luisa L. Heredia, and Genevieve Negron-Gonzales. 2015. “Untangling Plyler’s Legacy: Undocumented Students, Schools, and Citizenship.” Harvard Educational Review 85(3):318-341.
Gonzales, Roberto G. 2015. “Imagined Futures: Thoughts on the State of Policy and Research Concerning Undocumented Immigrant Youth and Young Adults.” Harvard Educational Review 85(3):518-524.
Roth, Benjamin J., Roberto G. Gonzales, and Jacob Lesniewski. 2015. “Building a Stronger Safety Net: Local Organizations and the Challenges of Serving Immigrants in the Suburbs.” Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance 39(4):348-361.
Patler, Caitlin and Roberto G. Gonzales. 2015. “Framing Citizenship: Media Coverage of Anti-Deportation Cases Led by Undocumented Immigrant Youth Organizations.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 41(9):1453-1474.
Gonzales, Roberto G., Veronica Terriquez, and Stephen. Ruszzczyk. 2014. “Becoming DACAmented: Assessing the Short-term Benefits of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).” American Behavioral Scientist 58(14):1852-1872.
Vaquera, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Aranda, and Roberto G. Gonzales. 2014. “Patterns of Incorporation of Latinos in Old and New Destinations: From Invisible to Hypervisible.” American Behavioral Scientist 58(14):1823-1833.
Gonzales, Roberto G. and Ariel Ruiz. 2014. “Dreaming Beyond the Fields: Undocumented Youth, Rural Realities, and a Constellation of Disadvantage.” Latino Studies 12(2):194-216.
Gonzales, Roberto G., Carola Suárez-Orozco, and Maria Cecilia Dedios. 2013. “No Place to Belong: Contextualizing Concepts of Mental Health among Undocumented Immigrant Youth in the United States.” American Behavioral Scientist 57(8):1173-1198.
Gleeson, Shannon, and Roberto G. Gonzales. 2012. “When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States.” International Migration 50(4):1-19.
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. "Learning to be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood.” American Sociological Review 76(4):602-619.
Gonzales, Roberto G. 2010. “On the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Understanding the Effects of School Structure and Social Capital in the Educational Pursuits of Undocumented Immigrant Students." Peabody Journal of Education 85(4):469-485.
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):144-157.
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):219-239.