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Selected Publications
For a complete list of faculty citations, please visit iRis, Northeastern’s digital archive.
Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing and Immigrant Networks
New York University Press (2011).
(with Tammi Arford) Health Sociology Review (2011).
The Acculturation of Host Individuals: Immigrants and Personal Networks
(with Isidro Maya-Jariego) Community Psychology (2009).
