Legal violence: Immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants C Menjívar, L Abrego American journal of sociology 117 (5), 000-000, 2012 | 1396 | 2012 |
“I can’t go to college because I don’t have papers”: Incorporation patterns of Latino undocumented youth LJ Abrego Latino studies 4, 212-231, 2006 | 895 | 2006 |
Legal consciousness of undocumented Latinos: Fear and stigma as barriers to claims-making for first-and 1.5-generation immigrants LJ Abrego Law & society review 45 (2), 337-370, 2011 | 875 | 2011 |
Sacrificing families: Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders LJ Abrego Stanford University Press, 2014 | 644 | 2014 |
Legitimacy, social identity, and the mobilization of law: The effects of Assembly Bill 540 on undocumented students in California L Abrego Law & Social Inquiry 33 (3), 709-734, 2008 | 612 | 2008 |
Blocked paths, uncertain futures: The postsecondary education and labor market prospects of undocumented Latino youth LJ Abrego, RG Gonzales Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 15 (1-2), 144-157, 2010 | 592 | 2010 |
Economic well‐being in Salvadoran transnational families: How gender affects remittance practices L Abrego Journal of marriage and family 71 (4), 1070-1085, 2009 | 307 | 2009 |
Making immigrants into criminals: Legal processes of criminalization in the post-IIRIRA era L Abrego, M Coleman, DE Martínez, C Menjívar, J Slack Journal on Migration and Human Security 5 (3), 694-715, 2017 | 272 | 2017 |
Incomplete inclusion: Legal violence and immigrants in liminal legal statuses LJ Abrego, SM Lakhani Law & Policy 37 (4), 265-293, 2015 | 227 | 2015 |
Immigrant families C Menjívar, LJ Abrego, LC Schmalzbauer John Wiley & Sons, 2016 | 222 | 2016 |
Parents and children across borders C Menjívar, D Abrego Across generations: Immigrant families in America, 160-89, 2009 | 213 | 2009 |
Immigrant Latina mothers as targets of legal violence LJ Abrego, C Menjívar International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 9-26, 2011 | 183 | 2011 |
Relational legal consciousness of US citizenship: Privilege, responsibility, guilt, and love in Latino mixed-status families LJ Abrego Law & Society Review 53 (3), 641-670, 2019 | 148 | 2019 |
Renewed optimism and spatial mobility: Legal consciousness of Latino Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and their families in Los Angeles LJ Abrego Ethnicities 18 (2), 192-207, 2018 | 118 | 2018 |
We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States L Abrego, G Negrón-Gonzales Duke University Press, 2020 | 111 | 2020 |
Illegality as a source of solidarity and tension in Latino families LJ Abrego Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies 8 (1), 5-21, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
On silences: Salvadoran refugees then and now LJ Abrego Latino Studies 15, 73-85, 2017 | 75 | 2017 |
Illegality, motherhood, and place: Undocumented Latinas making meaning and negotiating daily life LJ Abrego, L Schmalzbauer Women's Studies International Forum 67, 10-17, 2018 | 74 | 2018 |
Latino immigrants’ diverse experiences of illegality LJ Abrego Constructing immigrant “illegality”: Critiques, experiences, and responses …, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
RESEARCH AS ACCOMPANIMENT LJ Abrego Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society, 36, 2024 | 33* | 2024 |