He is the author of Mexican New York: Transnational Worlds of New Immigrants, which received book awards from ASA’s International Migration Section and the Urban and Community Sociology Section. He is the author of more than 30 articles and chapters on migration, education and immigration, and state-Diaspora relations. His current project on the school, work and social lives of children of immigrants as they enter early adulthood is funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation.