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- Gleeson, Shannon, and Els de Graauw. 2023. “DACA legal services: One federal policy, different local implementation approaches.“ Law and Policy 45 (4): 434–58.
- Kelley-Widmer, Jaclyn, and Hillary Rich. 2019. “A Step Too Far: Matter of A-B-, ‘Particular Social Group,’ and Chevron.” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 29: 345.
- Kelley-Widmer, Jaclyn. 2021. “Unseen Policies: Trump’s Little-Known Immigration Rules as Executive Power Grab.” Georgetown Journal of Immigration Law 35: 801.
- Kelley-Widmer, Jaclyn, and Alisa Whitfield. 2024. “Bridging the Immigration Detention Justice Gap.” Oregon Law Review 103: 101.
- Kelley-Widmer, Jaclyn, and Estelle McKee. 2024. “Essentializing Cultures in U.S. Asylum Law.” Brooklyn Law Review 89: 443.
- Kelley-Widmer, Jaclyn. 2025. “DACA Beyond Boundaries: Employment Visa Options.” USC Law Review 59: 447.
- Kelley-Widmer, Jaclyn. 2026. “Immigration Bridges.” Kentucky Law Journal (forthcoming).
- Kysel, Ian, et al. 2020. “Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Facilities Requires the Release of Detainees.” American Journal of Public Health 111: 110.
- Kysel, Ian, and G. Alex Sinha. 2023. “Executing Racial Justice.” UCLA Law Review Discourse 71: 2.

- Kysel, Ian, Justin Gest, and Tom Wong. 2019. “Protecting and Benchmarking Migrants’ Rights: An Analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.” International Migration 57: 60.
- Kysel, Ian, et al. 2020. “Human Mobility and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Principles of Protection for Migrants, Refugees, and Other Displaced Persons.” International Journal of Refugee Law 32: 549.
- Kysel, Ian, and Chantal Thomas. 2020. “The Shifting Boundaries of Emerging International Migration Law in the Post-Pandemic.” AJIL Unbound 114: 349.
- Kysel, Ian, Luwam Dirar, and Fatma Raach. 2024. “African Guiding Principles on the Rights of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-Seekers: An Introductory Note.” International Legal Materials 63.
- Kysel, Ian, Justin Gest, et al. 2024. “Migrant Rights Protections and Their Implementation in 45 Countries.” International Migration Review.
- Kysel, Ian. 2025. “The World Bank’s 2023 World Development Report: A Missed Opportunity to Recognize That All Migrants Have Rights.” International Migration 63.
- Lyon, Beth, et al. 2024. “Xenophobia Meter: Defining and Measuring Online Sentiment toward Foreigners on Twitter.” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
- Thomas, Chantal. 2016. “Transnational Migration, Globalization, and Governance: Reflections on the Central America–United States Immigration Crisis.” In Handbook on International Legal Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Thomas, Chantal. 2019. “Irregular Migration and International Economic Asymmetry.” In World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined: A Progressive Agenda for an Inclusive Globalization. London: Anthem Press.

- Bada, Xóchitl, and Shannon Gleeson. 2023. Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. Oakland: University of California Press.
- Griffith, Kati L., Shannon Gleeson, Darlène Dubuisson, and Patricia Campos-Medina. 2025. Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
- Kumar, Ashwin, Beth Lyon, and Shannon Gleeson. 2024. “How to Match Protections along with Skills? Limitations of the Match-Motive Matrix for Temporary Migrant Workers.” International Migration 62 (6).
- Lesniewski, Jack, and Shannon Gleeson. 2022. “Mobilizing Worker Rights: The Challenges of Claims-Driven Processes for Re-Regulating the Labor Market.” Labor Studies Journal 47 (3): 241–61.
- Lyon, Beth. 2019. “New York State Addresses a Jim Crow-Era Legacy: The 2019 Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act.” Labor and Employment 48 (1): 8.
- Lyon, Beth, and Cathleen Caron. 2024. “Portable Justice.” In The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Kavita Datta and Nicola Piper. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Lyon, Beth. 2025. “The Relational Self and Farmworker Law Reform: The Case of Indonesia.” Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis 56 (3).

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