Research

  

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Ryo, Emily, Ian Peacock, Weston Ley, Christopher Levesque. Forthcoming 2026. “Representation in Removal Proceedings.” Indiana Law Journal.

Ryo, Emily, Ian Peacock, Weston Ley, Christopher Levesque. 2025. “Racial Disparities in Crime-Based Removal Proceedings.” Minnesota Law Review.

Ha, Jasmine, Jack DeWaard, Guy Abel, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Jessie Pinchoff, Christopher Levesque, & Kobie Price. 2024.
The globalization of international migration? A data-driven synthesis to inform theory and policy in the 21st century and beyond.”Population and Development Review 51(1):421–448.

Johnson, Amy L., Christopher Levesque, Neil A. Lewis, Jr., & Asad L. Asad. 2024. “Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ psychological distress, 2011 to 2018.” Proceedings of the National Academies of the Sciences (PNAS) 121(9):1-12.

  • 2025 ASA Mental Health Section Best Publication Award, 2025 IPUMS Health Surveys Research Award
  • Cited in SCOTUS legal challenge to end birthright citizenship (Trump v. CASA, Inc.)

Levesque, Christopher, Linus Chan, & Kimberly Horner. 2023. “Process as suffering: How U.S. immigration court process and culture prevent substantive justice.” Albany Law Review 86(3):471-516.

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 observations of U.S. detained immigration court.” Law & Social Inquiry 48(2):407-36.

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

Ryo, Emily & Christopher Levesque. 2024. “Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction.” In Immigration Detention and Social Harm. Edited by Michelle Peterie. UK: Routledge Press. 155-174.

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.