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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 37 Citations 8,659 174 World Ranking 3420 National Ranking 1747

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2017 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow

2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Human rights

Cecilia Menjívar mostly deals with Immigration, Gender studies, Immigration law, Ethnic group and Indigenous. Her Immigration study combines topics in areas such as Social network, Criminology, State and Ethnography. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Citizenship, Principle of legality, Liminality and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Her work on Gender violence and Women's Lives as part of general Gender studies research is often related to Context and Phoenix, thus linking different fields of science. She has researched Immigration law in several fields, including Gender relations, Deportation and Element. The various areas that she examines in her Ethnic group study include Latin Americans, Demography, Human resources, Family income and Social position.

Her most cited work include:

  • Liminal legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants' lives in the United States (592 citations)
  • Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence Common Experiences in Different Countries (422 citations)
  • Legal violence: immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants (419 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Cecilia Menjívar mainly focuses on Immigration, Gender studies, Criminology, State and Context. Her study on Immigration law and Immigration policy is often connected to Phoenix as part of broader study in Immigration. The Immigration law study which covers Deportation that intersects with Demographic economics.

Cecilia Menjívar usually deals with Gender studies and limits it to topics linked to Ethnic group and Social psychology. Cecilia Menjívar interconnects Law enforcement, Legal status and Racialization in the investigation of issues within Criminology. Her State study incorporates themes from Power and Bureaucracy, Politics.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Immigration (50.29%)
  • Gender studies (29.71%)
  • Criminology (18.29%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Immigration (50.29%)
  • Criminology (18.29%)
  • Deportation (7.43%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her scientific interests lie mostly in Immigration, Criminology, Deportation, Context and Enforcement. Her Immigration study is focused on Law in general. Cecilia Menjívar has included themes like Law enforcement, Immigration law, Legal status and Racialization in her Criminology study.

Her Deportation research integrates issues from Poverty, Demographic economics and Public policy. As part of one scientific family, Cecilia Menjívar deals mainly with the area of Enforcement, narrowing it down to issues related to the Latina immigrants, and often Social isolation, Economic Justice and Social control. Her Scholarship study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Harassment and State.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Undocumented and unaccompanied: children of migration in the European Union and the United States (43 citations)
  • The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation (22 citations)
  • IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, THE RACIALIZATION OF LEGAL STATUS, AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLICE (19 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Human rights

Criminology, Immigration, Deportation, Context and Law are her primary areas of study. Her Criminology research includes themes of Structural violence, Immigration law, Law enforcement, Social issues and Racialization. In her research on the topic of Immigration law, Social psychology is strongly related with Legal consciousness.

Her Law enforcement research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Harassment, Principle of legality, Scholarship and Race. Cecilia Menjívar performs integrative study on Immigration and Multinomial logistic regression. In the field of Economic growth, her study on Health care overlaps with subjects such as Suicide prevention.

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