Asad L Asad
Biographic Data
| ID | 648347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asad L Asad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asad L |
| FAMILY NAME | Asad |
| SIGNATURE | ASAD A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6416-562X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 399 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Weather Extremes in Indigenous Communities in Mexico and Undocumented US Migration and Its Duration
In Mexico, the context of indigeneity—the share of the local population with precolonial origins—patterns multiple forms of inequality, including disproportionate exposure to weather extremes. We examine whether it also shapes undocumented migration to and return from the United States following weather extremes. Analyzing data on over 90,000 individuals from 147 Mexican communities in the Mexican Migration Project, linked to municipal measures o…
A framework for bridging conventional and critical perspectives on immigrant assimilation
This review appraises debates between contemporary and more critically engaged perspectives on immigrant assimilation. We argue that these traditions share complementary concerns with whether and how group boundaries are constructed, transformed, and linked to unequal access to resources and life chances. We propose an analytic framework that systematizes these shared concerns around four questions: (1) “what” type of change is being studied; (2)…
Building law and society and sociology
This essay compares and contrasts the disciplines of sociology and law and society. I then outline how sociology can enrich law and society with stronger theory-building and better linkages of theoretical frameworks to empirical data. I next consider how law and society can enrich sociology, including by encouraging sociologists to take seriously law’s constitutive nature and to engage more directly with their work’s normative implications. Throu…
Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing
System avoidance refers to the tendency of individuals who are concerned about formal social control (e.g., incarceration, immigration enforcement, or the removal of children from their families) to avoid surveilling institutions that engage in recordkeeping. While this research locates concerns about formal social control in an individual’s sanctionable status, the laws, policies, and practices that generate the threat of formal social control v…
Response to Yalidy Matos’s Review of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life
Which rights, and for whom? What relational rights mean in an era of immigrant exclusion
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life
Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants
Latinos’ deportation fears by citizenship and legal status, 2007 to 2018
Deportation has become more commonplace in the United States since the mid-2000s. Latin American noncitizens—encompassing undocumented and documented immigrants—are targeted for deportation. Deportation’s threat also reaches naturalized and US-born citizens of Latino descent who are largely immune to deportation but whose loved ones or communities are deportable. Drawing on 6 y of data from the National Survey of Latinos, this article examines wh…
On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants' Perceived Risk of Deportation
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 50 Latin American immigrants in Dallas, Texas, this article uncovers systematic distinctions in how immigrants holding different legal statuses perceive the threat of deportation. Undocumented immigrants recognize the precarity of their legal status, but they sometimes feel that their existence off the radar of the US immigration regime promotes their long-term presence in the country. Meanwhile, documented imm…
Indigenous Places and the Making of Undocumented Status in Mexico-US Migration
The uneven distribution of economic and social resources across communities often falls along ethno-racial dimensions. Few demographers have considered whether such axes of place stratification in a migrant-sending country relate to individuals’ access to economic and social resources in a migrant-receiving country. Taking Mexico-US migration flows as our focus, we examine if having origins in an indigenous place, a primary axis of stratification…
Mexico-U.S. Migration in Time: From Economic to Social Mechanisms
This article adopts a mixed-methods approach to illustrate how economic, political, and social mechanisms work across time to shape individuals’ migration decisions. First, using large-scale survey data from the Mexican Migration Project, we show that economic, political, and social factors all matter for migration decisions but that social factors come to matter most for migration over time. Second, drawing on 120 in-depth interviews with migran…
Migration to the United States from Indigenous Communities in Mexico
Research on Mexican migration to the United States has long noted how the characteristics of sending communities structure individuals' opportunities for international movement. This literature has seldom considered the concentration of indigenous residents (those with origins in pre-Hispanic populations) in migrant-sending communities. Drawing on data from 143 communities surveyed by the Mexican Migration Project, and supplemented with data from…
Deportation Decisions: Judicial Decision-Making in an American Immigration Court
Drawing on ethnographic observations and informal conversations with judges in Dallas Immigration Court, as well as archival documents, this article describes two approaches through which judges in this setting justify their decisions during removal proceedings. The "scripted approach," used to effect the routine removal of noncitizens in most of the completed cases observed, entails judges' recitation of well-rehearsed narratives regarding the l…
Hiding within racial hierarchies: How undocumented immigrants make residential decisions in an American city
In the United States, the residential segregation of Latinos from whites has persisted but has fallen between Latinos and blacks. Demographers offer the size of the Latino population that is undocumented as one potential explanation for these patterns. However, little work has examined undocumented immigrants’ first-hand accounts of residential decision-making. Drawing on interviews with undocumented-headed, Latin American-origin families in Dall…
Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in the Deportation Nation
Studies of immigrant “illegality” in the United States consider how contemporary policy and practice marginalize immigrants, their families, and their communities. A central component of this marginalization is deportability, or the possibility of deportation, which haunts undocumented immigrants in particular (De Genova 2002). Against this backdrop, the rapidly growing literature on immigrant illegality tends to follow one of two separate lines …
Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health
Network Effects in Mexico–U.S. Migration: Disentangling the Underlying Social Mechanisms
Scholars have long noted how migration streams, once initiated, obtain a self-feeding character. Studies have connected this phenomenon, called the cumulative causation of migration, to expanding social networks that link migrants in destination to individuals in origin. While extant research has established a positive association between individuals’ ties to prior migrants and their migration propensities, seldom have researchers interrogated ho…
Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana
Sergio Chávez's Border Lives arrives in the thick of heated debates over immigration to the United States. While most contemporary political discussions of immigration bifurcate immigrants into simple “legal” and “illegal” categories (Donato and Armenta 2011), Chávez's work complicates these groupings by documenting the experiences of “border commuters,” Mexican residents who regularly navigate back and forth across the Mexico-US border for work.…
Migrant Networks
Migrant networks—webs of social ties between individuals in origin and migrants in destination—are a key determinant of the magnitude and direction of migration flows, as well as migrants' adaptation outcomes. The increasing emphasis on migrant networks represents a new approach to migration research, which, until the late 1980s, had been dominated by economic or political explanations of migration. This entry summarizes findings on migrant netwo…
Contexts of reception, post-disaster migration, and socioeconomic mobility
Toward a multidimensional understanding of culture for health interventions
Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors
Theorizing the relationship between NGOs and the state in medical humanitarian development projects
Winning to Learn, Learning to Win: Evaluative Frames and Practices in Urban Debate
Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health
On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants' Perceived Risk of Deportation
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 50 Latin American immigrants in Dallas, Texas, this article uncovers systematic distinctions in how immigrants holding different legal statuses perceive the threat of deportation. Undocumented immigrants recognize the precarity of their legal status, but they sometimes feel that their existence off the radar of the US immigration regime promotes their long-term presence in the country. Meanwhile, documented imm…
Immigrants and African Americans
We examine how recent immigration to the United States has affected African Americans. We first review the research on the growing diversity within the black population, driven largely by the presence of black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa. As their children and grandchildren come of age, relations between immigrants and African Americans are complicated by the fact that a growing portion of the African American community has origins i…
Deportation Decisions: Judicial Decision-Making in an American Immigration Court
Drawing on ethnographic observations and informal conversations with judges in Dallas Immigration Court, as well as archival documents, this article describes two approaches through which judges in this setting justify their decisions during removal proceedings. The "scripted approach," used to effect the routine removal of noncitizens in most of the completed cases observed, entails judges' recitation of well-rehearsed narratives regarding the l…
Hiding within racial hierarchies: How undocumented immigrants make residential decisions in an American city
In the United States, the residential segregation of Latinos from whites has persisted but has fallen between Latinos and blacks. Demographers offer the size of the Latino population that is undocumented as one potential explanation for these patterns. However, little work has examined undocumented immigrants’ first-hand accounts of residential decision-making. Drawing on interviews with undocumented-headed, Latin American-origin families in Dall…
Network Effects in Mexico–U.S. Migration: Disentangling the Underlying Social Mechanisms
Scholars have long noted how migration streams, once initiated, obtain a self-feeding character. Studies have connected this phenomenon, called the cumulative causation of migration, to expanding social networks that link migrants in destination to individuals in origin. While extant research has established a positive association between individuals’ ties to prior migrants and their migration propensities, seldom have researchers interrogated ho…
Contexts of reception, post-disaster migration, and socioeconomic mobility
Indigenous Places and the Making of Undocumented Status in Mexico-US Migration
The uneven distribution of economic and social resources across communities often falls along ethno-racial dimensions. Few demographers have considered whether such axes of place stratification in a migrant-sending country relate to individuals’ access to economic and social resources in a migrant-receiving country. Taking Mexico-US migration flows as our focus, we examine if having origins in an indigenous place, a primary axis of stratification…
Theorizing the relationship between NGOs and the state in medical humanitarian development projects
Mexico-U.S. Migration in Time: From Economic to Social Mechanisms
This article adopts a mixed-methods approach to illustrate how economic, political, and social mechanisms work across time to shape individuals’ migration decisions. First, using large-scale survey data from the Mexican Migration Project, we show that economic, political, and social factors all matter for migration decisions but that social factors come to matter most for migration over time. Second, drawing on 120 in-depth interviews with migran…
Winning to Learn, Learning to Win: Evaluative Frames and Practices in Urban Debate
Toward a multidimensional understanding of culture for health interventions
Migration to the United States from Indigenous Communities in Mexico
Research on Mexican migration to the United States has long noted how the characteristics of sending communities structure individuals' opportunities for international movement. This literature has seldom considered the concentration of indigenous residents (those with origins in pre-Hispanic populations) in migrant-sending communities. Drawing on data from 143 communities surveyed by the Mexican Migration Project, and supplemented with data from…
Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing
System avoidance refers to the tendency of individuals who are concerned about formal social control (e.g., incarceration, immigration enforcement, or the removal of children from their families) to avoid surveilling institutions that engage in recordkeeping. While this research locates concerns about formal social control in an individual’s sanctionable status, the laws, policies, and practices that generate the threat of formal social control v…
Which rights, and for whom? What relational rights mean in an era of immigrant exclusion
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors
Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors
Theorizing the relationship between NGOs and the state in medical humanitarian development projects
Winning to Learn, Learning to Win: Evaluative Frames and Practices in Urban Debate
Immigrants and African Americans
We examine how recent immigration to the United States has affected African Americans. We first review the research on the growing diversity within the black population, driven largely by the presence of black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa. As their children and grandchildren come of age, relations between immigrants and African Americans are complicated by the fact that a growing portion of the African American community has origins i…
Migrant Networks
Migrant networks—webs of social ties between individuals in origin and migrants in destination—are a key determinant of the magnitude and direction of migration flows, as well as migrants' adaptation outcomes. The increasing emphasis on migrant networks represents a new approach to migration research, which, until the late 1980s, had been dominated by economic or political explanations of migration. This entry summarizes findings on migrant netwo…
Contexts of reception, post-disaster migration, and socioeconomic mobility
Toward a multidimensional understanding of culture for health interventions
Network Effects in Mexico–U.S. Migration: Disentangling the Underlying Social Mechanisms
Scholars have long noted how migration streams, once initiated, obtain a self-feeding character. Studies have connected this phenomenon, called the cumulative causation of migration, to expanding social networks that link migrants in destination to individuals in origin. While extant research has established a positive association between individuals’ ties to prior migrants and their migration propensities, seldom have researchers interrogated ho…
Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana
Sergio Chávez's Border Lives arrives in the thick of heated debates over immigration to the United States. While most contemporary political discussions of immigration bifurcate immigrants into simple “legal” and “illegal” categories (Donato and Armenta 2011), Chávez's work complicates these groupings by documenting the experiences of “border commuters,” Mexican residents who regularly navigate back and forth across the Mexico-US border for work.…
Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health
Indigenous Places and the Making of Undocumented Status in Mexico-US Migration
The uneven distribution of economic and social resources across communities often falls along ethno-racial dimensions. Few demographers have considered whether such axes of place stratification in a migrant-sending country relate to individuals’ access to economic and social resources in a migrant-receiving country. Taking Mexico-US migration flows as our focus, we examine if having origins in an indigenous place, a primary axis of stratification…
Mexico-U.S. Migration in Time: From Economic to Social Mechanisms
This article adopts a mixed-methods approach to illustrate how economic, political, and social mechanisms work across time to shape individuals’ migration decisions. First, using large-scale survey data from the Mexican Migration Project, we show that economic, political, and social factors all matter for migration decisions but that social factors come to matter most for migration over time. Second, drawing on 120 in-depth interviews with migran…
Migration to the United States from Indigenous Communities in Mexico
Research on Mexican migration to the United States has long noted how the characteristics of sending communities structure individuals' opportunities for international movement. This literature has seldom considered the concentration of indigenous residents (those with origins in pre-Hispanic populations) in migrant-sending communities. Drawing on data from 143 communities surveyed by the Mexican Migration Project, and supplemented with data from…
Deportation Decisions: Judicial Decision-Making in an American Immigration Court
Drawing on ethnographic observations and informal conversations with judges in Dallas Immigration Court, as well as archival documents, this article describes two approaches through which judges in this setting justify their decisions during removal proceedings. The "scripted approach," used to effect the routine removal of noncitizens in most of the completed cases observed, entails judges' recitation of well-rehearsed narratives regarding the l…
Hiding within racial hierarchies: How undocumented immigrants make residential decisions in an American city
In the United States, the residential segregation of Latinos from whites has persisted but has fallen between Latinos and blacks. Demographers offer the size of the Latino population that is undocumented as one potential explanation for these patterns. However, little work has examined undocumented immigrants’ first-hand accounts of residential decision-making. Drawing on interviews with undocumented-headed, Latin American-origin families in Dall…
Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in the Deportation Nation
Studies of immigrant “illegality” in the United States consider how contemporary policy and practice marginalize immigrants, their families, and their communities. A central component of this marginalization is deportability, or the possibility of deportation, which haunts undocumented immigrants in particular (De Genova 2002). Against this backdrop, the rapidly growing literature on immigrant illegality tends to follow one of two separate lines …
Latinos’ deportation fears by citizenship and legal status, 2007 to 2018
Deportation has become more commonplace in the United States since the mid-2000s. Latin American noncitizens—encompassing undocumented and documented immigrants—are targeted for deportation. Deportation’s threat also reaches naturalized and US-born citizens of Latino descent who are largely immune to deportation but whose loved ones or communities are deportable. Drawing on 6 y of data from the National Survey of Latinos, this article examines wh…
On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants' Perceived Risk of Deportation
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 50 Latin American immigrants in Dallas, Texas, this article uncovers systematic distinctions in how immigrants holding different legal statuses perceive the threat of deportation. Undocumented immigrants recognize the precarity of their legal status, but they sometimes feel that their existence off the radar of the US immigration regime promotes their long-term presence in the country. Meanwhile, documented imm…
Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life
Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants
Response to Yalidy Matos’s Review of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life
Which rights, and for whom? What relational rights mean in an era of immigrant exclusion
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing
System avoidance refers to the tendency of individuals who are concerned about formal social control (e.g., incarceration, immigration enforcement, or the removal of children from their families) to avoid surveilling institutions that engage in recordkeeping. While this research locates concerns about formal social control in an individual’s sanctionable status, the laws, policies, and practices that generate the threat of formal social control v…
Weather Extremes in Indigenous Communities in Mexico and Undocumented US Migration and Its Duration
In Mexico, the context of indigeneity—the share of the local population with precolonial origins—patterns multiple forms of inequality, including disproportionate exposure to weather extremes. We examine whether it also shapes undocumented migration to and return from the United States following weather extremes. Analyzing data on over 90,000 individuals from 147 Mexican communities in the Mexican Migration Project, linked to municipal measures o…
A framework for bridging conventional and critical perspectives on immigrant assimilation
This review appraises debates between contemporary and more critically engaged perspectives on immigrant assimilation. We argue that these traditions share complementary concerns with whether and how group boundaries are constructed, transformed, and linked to unequal access to resources and life chances. We propose an analytic framework that systematizes these shared concerns around four questions: (1) “what” type of change is being studied; (2)…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Immigration (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminology (8 works)