Research and Works in Progress
For a partial list of presentations and publications of the project, click here.
- M. Brinton Lykes , Kalina M. Brabeck & Cristina J. Hunter (2013): Exploring parent–child communication in the context of threat: immigrant families facing detention and deportation in post-9/11 USA, Community, Work & Family
- Hershberg, Rachel M. & Lykes, M. Brinton (2012). Redefining Family: Transnational Girls Narrate Experiences of Parental Migration, Detention, and Deportation [75 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14(1), Art. 5, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs130157
- Lykes, M.B., McDonald, E. & Boc, C. (2012). The Post-Deportation Human Rights Project: Participatory Action Research with Maya Transnational Families. Practicing Anthropology 34(1), 22-26.
- Lykes, M. B., Hershberg, R. & Brabeck, K.M. (2011). Methodological challenges in participatory action research with undocumented Central American migrants. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 3(2), 22-35. http://jsacp.tumblr.com/
- Lykes, M. B. & Chicco, J. (2011) Políticas y prácticas de deportación en la administración de Obama: “Entre más cambian las cosas más se quedan igual” [Deportation Policies and Practices in the Obama Administration: “The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same”]. ENCUENTRO: Revista Académico de la Universidad Centroamericana, 90, 7-18.
- Children and Families: A Quantitative Exploration, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science 32(3) 341-61 (2010). Click here to view
- Kalina Brabeck, M. Brinton Lykes, and Rachel Hershberg. Framing Immigration to and Deportation From the United States: Guatemalan and Salvadorian Families Make Meaning of their Experiences, Community, Work & Family (2011). Click here to view.
Multidisciplinary PhD Research Development Day, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. (2011, February):
- Poster: McDonald, E., & Lykes, M.B. Exploring the discourse of children “left behind” by migration. Click here to view.
- Poster: Hunter, C. & Alvarez-Keese, A. From a Child’s Perspective: Understanding detention, deportation and familial roots from children of undocumented immigrants. Click here to view.