Martha Morales Hernandez
Biographic Data
| ID | 120393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Morales Hernandez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha Morales |
| FAMILY NAME | Hernandez |
| SIGNATURE | HERNANDEZ M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1848-9505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Student empowerment and creative classrooms: Making art when teaching about undocumented migration
Emotional Rollercoaster: How Immigration Policy and Agency Shape Mental Health among Undocumented College Students
Exclusionary immigration laws and policies have been shown to produce adverse mental health outcomes. However, less work has traced the processes through which mental health experiences arise and how undocumented college students employ their agency to protect their mental health. Drawing on 66 in-depth interviews, I build on my interviewees' descriptions of mental health as a rollercoaster to illustrate how their stress process is shaped by immi…
Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship Between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students
Research has established that legal vulnerability has detrimental consequences for the mental health of undocumented individuals. The purpose of our study is to consider how practicing agency is associated with mental health in the face of such structural marginalization. To meet this goal, we conceptualize actions taken to resist structural inequality as acts of resistance to center immigrants’ agency in navigating and contesting their marginali…
Immigration Status, Legal Vulnerability, and Suicidal/Self-harm Ideation Disparities Among Immigrant-Origin Latinx Young Adults in the U.S
Centering social justice in public sociology
This chapter explores ways to advance social justice within the context of public sociology. Drawing on our experiences with the Undocumented Student Equity Project, we contend that that our ability to open conversations with non-academic audiences was bolstered by our commitment to social justice. We provide a brief history of California’s undocumented students’ experience in higher education to contextualize the project and our goals. We descri…
Life after College: Liminal Legality and Political Threats as Barriers to Undocumented Students’ Career Preparation Pursuits
Prior research has established that undocumented immigration status disrupts students’ transition into life after college, but limited research has examined their preparatory experiences in college. Drawing on interviews with 154 undocumented college students and 32 alumni, we examine how immigration status impacts undocumented students’ career planning and preparation. We find that professional development opportunities and college social networ…
Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students’ experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented 4-year college students in California, we examine how undocumented students are faring in a relatively inc…
Mediating Illegality: Federal, State, and Institutional Policies in the Educational Experiences of Undocumented College Students
Immigration federalism scholarship has established that state and local government policies can make federally defined immigration status more or less consequential. Drawing primarily on focus groups and interviews with 184 undocumented students attending the University of California, we suggest that institutional policies work alongside state and local efforts to mediate the consequences of illegality for undocumented students. We find that the …
Deconstructing Immigrant Illegality: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Stress and Health Among Undocumented College Students
Mediating Illegality: Federal, State, and Institutional Policies in the Educational Experiences of Undocumented College Students
Immigration federalism scholarship has established that state and local government policies can make federally defined immigration status more or less consequential. Drawing primarily on focus groups and interviews with 184 undocumented students attending the University of California, we suggest that institutional policies work alongside state and local efforts to mediate the consequences of illegality for undocumented students. We find that the …
Deconstructing Immigrant Illegality: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Stress and Health Among Undocumented College Students
Life after College: Liminal Legality and Political Threats as Barriers to Undocumented Students’ Career Preparation Pursuits
Prior research has established that undocumented immigration status disrupts students’ transition into life after college, but limited research has examined their preparatory experiences in college. Drawing on interviews with 154 undocumented college students and 32 alumni, we examine how immigration status impacts undocumented students’ career planning and preparation. We find that professional development opportunities and college social networ…
Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students’ experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented 4-year college students in California, we examine how undocumented students are faring in a relatively inc…
Immigration Status, Legal Vulnerability, and Suicidal/Self-harm Ideation Disparities Among Immigrant-Origin Latinx Young Adults in the U.S
Deconstructing Immigrant Illegality: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Stress and Health Among Undocumented College Students
Mediating Illegality: Federal, State, and Institutional Policies in the Educational Experiences of Undocumented College Students
Immigration federalism scholarship has established that state and local government policies can make federally defined immigration status more or less consequential. Drawing primarily on focus groups and interviews with 184 undocumented students attending the University of California, we suggest that institutional policies work alongside state and local efforts to mediate the consequences of illegality for undocumented students. We find that the …
Centering social justice in public sociology
This chapter explores ways to advance social justice within the context of public sociology. Drawing on our experiences with the Undocumented Student Equity Project, we contend that that our ability to open conversations with non-academic audiences was bolstered by our commitment to social justice. We provide a brief history of California’s undocumented students’ experience in higher education to contextualize the project and our goals. We descri…
Life after College: Liminal Legality and Political Threats as Barriers to Undocumented Students’ Career Preparation Pursuits
Prior research has established that undocumented immigration status disrupts students’ transition into life after college, but limited research has examined their preparatory experiences in college. Drawing on interviews with 154 undocumented college students and 32 alumni, we examine how immigration status impacts undocumented students’ career planning and preparation. We find that professional development opportunities and college social networ…
Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students’ experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented 4-year college students in California, we examine how undocumented students are faring in a relatively inc…
Immigration Status, Legal Vulnerability, and Suicidal/Self-harm Ideation Disparities Among Immigrant-Origin Latinx Young Adults in the U.S
Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship Between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students
Research has established that legal vulnerability has detrimental consequences for the mental health of undocumented individuals. The purpose of our study is to consider how practicing agency is associated with mental health in the face of such structural marginalization. To meet this goal, we conceptualize actions taken to resist structural inequality as acts of resistance to center immigrants’ agency in navigating and contesting their marginali…
Student empowerment and creative classrooms: Making art when teaching about undocumented migration
Emotional Rollercoaster: How Immigration Policy and Agency Shape Mental Health among Undocumented College Students
Exclusionary immigration laws and policies have been shown to produce adverse mental health outcomes. However, less work has traced the processes through which mental health experiences arise and how undocumented college students employ their agency to protect their mental health. Drawing on 66 in-depth interviews, I build on my interviewees' descriptions of mental health as a rollercoaster to illustrate how their stress process is shaped by immi…
Immigration (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works)