Her PhD dissertation focused on debates about unauthorized immigrants: ‘It’s just not Main Street anymore!’ Mapping Out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway. In 2014, she co-authored Obama Power with Jeffrey C. Alexander. The Boundaries of Belonging: Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Her current research focuses on newspaper coverage of refugees entering Canada and the United States.