A New Coriolis Client: Stephanie Canizales

We are thrilled to be working with author and professor Stephanie L. Canizales on her forthcoming book, Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States, from the University of California Press.

Stephanie L. Canizales, PhD, is a researcher, author, and professor currently appointed to the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Merced, and a Resident Scholar with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Stephanie’s research specializations include international migration and immigrant integration; children, youth, and families; inequality, poverty, and mobility; and race and ethnicity. She uses in-depth interviews and ethnographic research methods to understand the causes of Latin American-origin migration to the U.S. and how immigrant children, youth, and families fare once there. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Stephanie is the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants whose experiences growing up as unaccompanied youth in Los Angeles inform her scholarship and motivate her commitment to public scholarship.

Stephanie was formerly a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the University of California at Merced (2019-2020) and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University (2018-2019). She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California (2018).