Articles, Books, and Films

Appleseed Network (2017). Psychological Aspects of Deportation and Child Custody.

Aranda, R. (2016). Living in the Shadows: Plight of the Undocumented. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72,  8, 795–806.

Boulanger, G. (2008). Witnesses to Reality: Working Psychodynamically with Survivors of Torture. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 18: 638-657.

Casey, E. & Watkins, M. (2014).  Up against the wall: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Border. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

Eisold, B. K. (2019). Psychodynamic perspectives on asylum seekers and the asylum-seeking process. Routledge.

Evans, F. B., Hass, G. A.(2018). Forensic psychological assessment in immigration court: A guidebook for evidence-based and ethical practice. Routledge.

Gangsei, D., Deutsch, A. C. (2007). Psychological Evaluation of Asylum Seekers as a Therapeutic Process. Torture, 17, 2, 79-87.

Goodman, R.D., Vesely, C. K., Letiecq, B. (2017). Trauma and Resilience Among Undocumented and Refugee Women. Journal of Counseling and Development, 95, 309-321.

Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Kanstroom, D. (2010). Deportation nation: Outsiders in American history. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kanstroom, D. (2012). Aftermath: Deportation and the new American diaspora. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Kanstroom, D. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.) (2015). The new deportations delirium: Interdisciplinary responses. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Kemp, T. (2019). Solidarity in spaces of ‘care and custody’: The hospitality politics of immigration detention visiting. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480619887163

Orloff, L., & Roberts, B. (2012). Extreme hardship in VAWA Cancellation of Removal and VAWA Suspension of Deportation Cases. National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project-NIWAP, American University, Washington College of Law, Paper: November, 2012, Washington, DC

Sassen, S. (2014). Expulsions: Brutality and complexity in the global economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Story, R., Olavarria, C., &, Preda, M. VAWA Cancellation of Removal. National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, American University.

Vaisman-Tzachor, R. (2003). Psychological Assessment Protocol in Federal Immigration Court. The Forensic Examiner, 12 (3 & 4), 34-40.

Vaisman-Tzachor, R. (2012). Psychological Evaluations in Federal Immigration Court: Fifteen Years in the Making. The Forensic Examiner, 42-53.

Vaisman-Tzachor, R. (2014). Psychological Assessment Protocol for Asylum Applications in Federal Immigration Court. The Annals of Psychotherapy.

Watkins, M. (2019). Mutual accompaniment and the creation of the commons. Yale University Press.

Well Founded Fear, Directed by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, documentary on asylum seekers, officers, and U.S. asylum process (https://vimeo.com/143177512)

Wilson, J. P., Dozdek, B. (2004). Broken spirits: The treatment of traumatized asylum seekers, refugees, war and torture victims. Brunner-Routledge.