CCIS scholars publish books on a wide variety of topics related to immigration. CCIS also publishes its own research, distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers or co-published with other university and commercial presses. For further information about these books and to order them, please click on the names or covers of the books.
Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation
By: Abigail Andrews and the Students of the Mexican Field Research Program
Published August 2023
Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy
By: David Scott FitzGerald and John D. Skrentny
Published January 2021
Citizenship Reimagined A New Framework for State Rights in the United States
By: Allan Colbern and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Published October 2020
Courting Migrants: How States Make Diasporas and Diasporas Make States
By: Katrina Burgess
Published August 2020
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles
By: Rocío Rosales
Published May 2020
Talking Politics Political Discussion Networks and the New American Electorate
By: Taylor N. Carlson, Marisa Abrajano, and Lisa García Bedolla
Published April 2020
At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean
By: Cetta Mainwaring
Published October 2019
Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
by David Scott FitzGerald
Published April 2019
~2021 ASA Sociology of Human Rights Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award
Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants
by Abigail Leslie Andrews
Published 2018
El Nuevo Rostro de la Migracion Mexicana
by Wayne A. Cornelius, Micah Gell-Redman, Hillary S. Kosnac, Pedro Lewin Fischer, Veronica Noriega
The Politics of Immigration: Partisanship, Demographic Change, and American National Identity
by Tom K. Wong
Published 2017
Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement
by Amada Armenta
Published 2017
The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy
by Tom K. Wong
Published January 2017
The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954
by S. Deborah Kang
Published 2016
~Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG)
~Theodore Saloutos Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, (IEHS)
~Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize
~Americo Paredes Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book on Chicana/o, Mexican American, &/or Latina/o studies
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies
by Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort
Published January 2016
Immigration and the State: Fear, Greed and Hospitality
by Alex R. Balch
Published 2016
Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy
by Chris Haynes, Jennifer Merolla, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Published 2016
Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K’iche’ Community
by C. James MacKenzie
Published 2016
New Study of DACA Beneficiaries Shows Positive Economic and Educational Outcomes
By Tom K. Wong, Greisa Martinez Rosas, Adrian Reyna, Ignacia Rodriguez, Patrick O’Shea, Tom Jawetz, and Philip E. Wolgin
Published 2016
Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border
By Maurizio Albahari
Published 2016
By Hillary S. Kosnac, Wayne A. Cornelius, Tom K. Wong, Micah Gell-Redman and D. Alex Hughes
The Impact of DACA Three Years After Its Implementation
By Tom K. Wong
Published 2015
Flujos cambiantes, atonía institucional. Anuario de la Inmigración en España 2014 (Edición 2015)
by Joaquín Arango, David Moya Malapeira, Josep Oliver Alonso, Elena Sánchez-Montijano
Published 2015
By Lisa García Bedolla, Marisa Abrajano, Jane Junn
Published 2015, 23 pages
The New Face of Mexican Migration: A Transnational Community in Yucatán and California
By Wayne A. Cornelius, Micah Gell-Redman, Hillary S. Kosnac, Pedro Lewin-Fischer, and Veronica Noriega
Published 2015, 244 pages
Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control
By Tom K. Wong
Published: 2015, 256 pages
White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics
By Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal
Published: 2015, 256 pages, hardcover
by Joaquín Arango, David Moya Malapeira, Josep Oliver Alonso
Published 2014
Nación de emigrantes. Cómo maneja México su migración
By David FitzGerald
Published: 2014, 304 pages, paperback
[Published as a Nation of Emigrants in 2009]
Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa: Coethnic Strangers
By Claire L. Adida
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
By David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martin~Winner of Best Book Prize for Books on Migration and Citizenship Published in 2014; American Political Science Association
~ASA International Migration Section Best Book Award, 2015
~Finalist for the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Book Prize of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (for the best book in U.S. immigration history published in 2014)
by Yow Cheun Hoe.
Published 2014
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
By John D. Skrentny~Winner of 2014 Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations
~Finalist for the 2014 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award, The University of Memphis
~Honorable Mention for the 2015 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association
Edited by David Scott FitzGerald, Jorge Hernández Díaz and David Keyes
Políticas de control migratorio. Estudio comparado de España y EE.UU.
(distributed by Edicions Bellaterra) Edited by Antonio Izquierdo and Wayne A. Cornelius
Is Immigration Necessary? Work, Growth, and the Future in Japan and the United States
(distributed by American Behavioral Scientist) Edited by John Skrentny and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California – San Diego Published August 2012, Volume 56, Number 8