Research

  

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Levesque, Christopher, Jack DeWaard, Linus Chan, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Olivia Toles, Michele Garnett McKenzie, Amy Lange, Kimberly Horner, Eric Ryu, & Elizabeth Heger Boyle. 2023. “Crimmigrating narratives: examining third-party observerations of U.S. detained immigration court.” Law & Social Inquiry. Volume 48, Issue 2. 407 – 436.

Levesque, Christopher, Kimberly Horner, & Linus Chan. 2023. “Process as suffering: how U.S. immigration court process and culture prevent substantive justice.” Albany Law Review Vol 86, Issue 3.

Tsuchiya, Kazumi, Olivia Toles, Christopher Levesque, Kimberly Horner, Eric Ryu, Linus Chan, & Jack DeWaard. 2021. “Perceived structural vulnerabilities among detained noncitizen immigrants in Minnesota.” PLoS ONE 16(6): e0252232.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Levesque, Christopher & Jack DeWaard. 2021. “Migration and Migrants in the United States.” In Companion to the Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Edited by Anthony M. Orum. UK: Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

POLICY & OPINION

Christopher Levesque. 2022. “Book Review: Deported Americans.” Border Criminologies. Published May 6, 2022.

Gelatt, Julia, Jeanne Batalova, & Christopher Levesque. 2021. “Immigrant and Other U.S. Workers a Year into the Pandemic: A Focus on Top Immigrant States.” Migration Policy Institute. Published June 30, 2021.

Batalova, Jeanne, Mary Hanna, & Christopher Levesque. 2021. “Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States.” MPI Migration Information Source. Published February 11, 2021.

Allen, Ryan, Jack DeWaard, Erika Lee, & Christopher Levesque. 2018. “The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the ‘public charge’ rule lack merit.” Op-ed in MinnPost. Published December 12, 2018.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Levesque, Christopher. May 2021. “Studying spatial contexts of the U.S. immigration court system.” Law and Society Association. Virtual meeting.

Levesque, Christopher. May 2021. “Mapping immigration court processes, outcomes, and deportation decisions.” Population Association of America. Virtual meeting.

Levesque, Christopher. May 2021. “Rusty and rooted: estimating duration of residence in the U.S. Rust Belt before, during, and after the Great Recession.” Population Association of America. Virtual meeting.

Levesque, Christopher, Jack DeWaard, Linus Chan, Michele Garnett McKenzie, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Olivia Toles, & Amy Lange. May 2020. “Detained and denied: third-party observers’ perceived civic and democratic costs of detained immigration court.” Law and Society Association. Denver, CO.

Levesque, Christopher & Jack DeWaard. April 2020. “Calculating duration expectancy to describe Rust Belt migration before, during, and after the Great Recession.” Population Association of America. Washington, D.C.

Levesque, Christopher. August 2019. “Assimilation or exclusion? Refugee access to health in Germany after the migrant crisis.” American Sociological Association. Section on International Migration. New York, NY.

Levesque, Christopher. August 2019. “Screening for the ’Good Life’: Nurses’ Insights into the New Era of Refugee Health Care and Integration in Minneapolis, St. Paul.” The Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York, NY.

Levesque, Christopher. June 2019. “Comparing far-right populism and collective memory in the American and German context.” Memory Studies Association. Madrid, Spain.

Liebler, Carolyn, Christopher Levesque, & Miri Song. April 2019. “Measuring ‘Context’ when Studying Racial Identity and Family Decisions among Mixed-Heritage People in the U.S.” Population Association of America. Austin, TX.

Levesque, Christopher. August 2018. “Monuments, memory, migration: collective guilt and xenophobia of the German far-right.” American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Tsuchiya, Kazumi, Christopher Levesque, & Jack DeWaard. “What factors influence bond decisions for immigrant detainees in immigration court? Understanding the confluence of criminal history and mental health in immigration bond hearings.” Population Association of America 2020. Washington, D.C.