Immigration | College of Public Health

Chicago Sun-Times: Carol Cleaveland co-authors op-ed on Project 2025 and effects on female asylum-seekers at the southern border.

November 29, 2024

Women seeking asylum should not be turned away.
Ms. Magazine: Carol Cleaveland co-authors op-ed about the many challenges women face when seeking asylum in the U.S.

October 3, 2024

There Can Be No Debate Over Asylum.
Ms.: Carol Cleaveland co-writes op-ed on how President Biden’s executive order to temporarily close the U.S. border at a certain threshold will impact women fleeing persecution.

June 4, 2024

Why Women Will Be Hardest Hit by President Biden’s Executive Order.
Faculty Spotlight: Carol Cleaveland – A Scholar on Leave

August 23, 2023

Associate Professor Carol Cleaveland began exploring Latino immigration in 2004 utilizing ethnographic research methods and working with Mexican day laborers in Freehold, N.J., to understand how the day laborers negotiated police harassment and anti-immigrant ordinances. Since 2013, Dr. Cleaveland’s work has focused on Latinas from Central America and immigration-related trauma, including experiences in human smuggling. She was awarded study leave during the Spring 2023 semester to complete her work on two projects.