Forced Migration, Transnational and Mixed Status Families, and Human Rights

  • Özgür Erdur-Baker, Ö., Özmen, O., Aksöz-Efe, İ., Aker, T. & Lykes, M. B. (2020). Struggles and assets of Syrian college students in Turkey. In de Wit, H., Ergin, H., Khajarian, A., and Unangst, L. (Eds.) Refugees and Higher Education: trans-national perspectives on access, equity, and internationalization. Leiden, Netherlands & Boston, MA: Brill/Sense Book Series.

  • Lykes, M. B., *Távara, G., *Sibley, E. & *Ferreira van Leer, K. (2020). Maya K’iche’ families and intergenerational migration within and across borders: An exploratory mixed-methods study. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 6(1), 52-73.

  • *Hershberg, R. M. & Lykes, M. B. (2019). Fathering within transnational and mixed-status Mayan families: An exploratory study. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 8(2), 59-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ipp0000104

  • Crosby, A., Lykes, M.B., & Doiron, F. (2018/2019). Affective contestations: Engaging emotion through the Sepur Zarco trial. In Macleod, M. and N. De Marinis (Eds.) (2018) Resisting violence: Emotional communities in Latin America. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 163-185.

    • Spanish translation: Contestaciones afectivas: Involucrando las emociones en el juicio Sepur Zarco. En Macleod, M. y N. De Marinis (Eds.) (2019) Comunidades emocionales: Resistiendo a las violencias en América Latina. México: UAM Xochimilco y Bogotá, Columbia: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, pp. 185-209. (pdf in Spanish available here)

  • *Távara, G., Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2018). Standing in between: The healing praxis of Mayan women intermediaries in post genocide Guatemala. Women and Therapy, 41(1-2), 30-51. doi: 10.1080/02703149.2017.1323477.

    • Spanish translation and republished in 2020: De pie en el medio: Las prácticas de sanación de las mujeres mayas intermediarias después del genocidio en Guatemala. Costa, G.E. & Etchezahar, E. (Eds.). Diversidad, Identidad, & Derechos. Buenos Aires, AR: Ediciones de la UNLZ, pp. 179-224). (pdf in Spanish available here)

  • Lykes, M.B. (2018). Identidades de “allá” y de “acá”: Jóvenes mayas migrantes transnacionales, capital humano y el futuro de Guatemala [Identities “here” and “there”: Transnational Maya migrant youth, human capital and the future of Guatemala]. Entrega especial Ricardo Falla, S.J. [Festschrift in honor of Ricardo Falla, S.J.]. Eutopía: Revista de Investigación y Proyección [Utopia: Journal of Research and Social Projection], 331-354.

  • *McGillen, G., *Bhattacharyya, S. & Lykes, M. B. (2016). Undocumented migrants, rights literacy, and ESOL classrooms: A community-university partnership to enhance psychopolitical learning. LEARNing Landscapes, 10 (1), 183-198.

  • Brabeck, K., *Sibley, E. & Lykes, M.B. (2016). Authorized and unauthorized immigrant parents: The impact of legal vulnerability on family contexts. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science, 38, 3-30. doi:10.1177/0739986315621741. On-line published December 2015.

  • Kanstroom, D. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.) (2015). The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses. New York: New York University Press. With two original chapters:

    • Kanstroom, D. & Lykes, M. B. Migration, detention, and deportation: Dilemmas and responses, pp. 1-32.

    • Lykes, M. B., *Sibley, E., Brabeck, K. M., *Hunter, C. & *Johansen, Y. Participatory action research with transnational and mixed status families: Understanding and responding to post-9/11 threats to migrants, pp. 193-226.

  • *Hershberg, R. M. & Lykes, M. B. (2015). Transnational mixed-status families: Critical challenges in cross-border relationships over time. In Scheuths, A. & Lawston, J. (Eds.). Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy. U of Washington Press, pp. 37-53.

  • Lykes, M. B. & *Hershberg, R. M. (2015). Continuities and discontinuities in human rights violations: Historically situating the psychosocial effects of migration. Journal of Social Issues. 71(2), 244-263. doi:10.1111/josi.12108