Professor Stephanie Canizales
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Email: scanizales@berkeley.edu
Profile
Stephanie L. Canizales, PhD, is a researcher, author, and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. Throughout her research and writing, Stephanie has explored how displacement and migration shape the everyday lives of children and their families; how immigrant children and families learn and navigate the too-often constrained structures of opportunity in the US; and how immigrants articulate success and well-being within an increasingly unequal US society. Stephanie’s books, Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, and Everyday Futures, take on many of these issues from the perspective of unaccompanied children and teens.
Research
Publications
Stephanie L. Canizales. 2024. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States. Oakland: University of California Press.
Stephanie L. Canizales, Brendan H. O'Connor. 2025. Everyday Futures: Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.