Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Sociology Department

Title Associate Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Latin American & Latino Studies

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Sociology
Immigration

Web Site

Primary Office Location Rachel Carson College Academic Building
305

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours spring 2024: by appointment (j.pedroza@ucsc.edu)

Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

I'm an Associate Professor of sociology at UCSC where I study the changing landscape of immigration in the United States. Over the past decade, I have examined the vast inequalities of immigrants' access to justice and the social safety net. My research examines how and where deportation and enforcement initiatives exacerbate these inequalities and leave imprints in our local communities.

My research on immigrant families has received support from the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant. I also received an Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship (2020-2021) from the Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by The JPB Foundation).

I completed my sociology Ph.D. in 2018 from Stanford University, where I was a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Poverty and Inequality and Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE). Before graduate school, I worked as a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC as a research associate. I received my BA at DePauw University in 2003 (History; Conflict Studies) and an MPA at Indiana University, Bloomington-SPEA in 2006 (policy analysis; economic development).

Awards, Honors and Grants

2023-24: Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant

2020-21: Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Institute for Research on Poverty) & The JPB Foundation

2018: Academic Achievement Award, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University

2017-18: Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow

2014-17: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow

2012-15: Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity Graduate Fellowship

Selected Publications

Complete list of publications

• 2023 Pedroza, Juan M., Anne Schaufele, Viviana Jimenez, Melissa Garcia Carrillo, Dennise Onchi-Molina. “Insurgent Citizenship: How Consumer Complaints on Immigration Scams Inform Justice and Prevention Efforts.” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 37, no. 3: 369-400.
• 2022 Pedroza, Juan Manuel. "Uneven Migration Enforcement." Contexts 21, no. 2 (2022): 60-63.
• 2022 Pedroza, Juan M.  “Housing Instability in an Era of Mass Deportations.” Population Research and Policy Review 41, no. 6 (2022): 2645-2681.
• 2022 Pedroza, Juan Manuel. "Making Noncitizens’ Rights Real: Evidence from Immigration Scam Complaints." Law & Policy 44, no. 1 (2022): 44-69.
• 2021 Pedroza, J. M, and P. H. Chung. “Death and Disabilities in Divergent Deportation Contexts: Revisiting the Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox.” In Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas, Eds. Jamie Longazel and Miranda Cady Hallett. pp165-185. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
• 2019 Perreira, Krista M., and Juan M. Pedroza. "Policies of Exclusion: Implications for the Health of Immigrants and Their Children." Annual Review of Public Health.
• 2019 Pedroza, J. M. “Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and ‘Secure Communities’ Deportations.” Policy Studies Journal 47, no. 3: 624-646.

Selected Recordings

Juan Pedroza's Fall 2020 Welcome