Dr. Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada joined the Sociology Department at Boise State University
in 2010 as an Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. from the University of
California in Irvine with her dissertation entitled "Educational Trajectories in the
Mexican-Origin Population." Her teaching and research interests include Immigration,
Education, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Social Demography, and Statistics.

Articles

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Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied: Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility in Los Angeles's New Second Generation (with Min Zhou, Jennifer Lee, Jody Agius Vallejo, and Yang Sao Xiong), The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2008)

This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies...

 

Contributions to Books

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Immigration and Incarceration: Patterns and Predictors of Imprisonment Among First- and Second-Generation Young Adults (with RubeĢn G. Rumbaut, Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, and Charlie V. Morgan), Immigration and Crime : Race, Ethnicity, and Violence (2006)
 

Presentations

Educational Trajectories of the Mexican-Origin Population, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference (2008)