Emily Ryo

Forthcoming

Weaponizing Immigration Detention, Iowa Law Review (forthcoming) (with others)

Articles & Essays

Representation in Removal Proceedings, 101 Indiana Law Journal 753-812 (2026) (with others)
Criminalization of Immigration, 11 RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 282-343 (2025) (with others)
Intergroup Boundaries and Removal Decisions, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 1-33 (2025) (with Ian Peacock)
Racial Disparities in Crime-Based Removal Proceedings, 109 Minnesota Law Review 1997-2088 (2025) (with others)
Immigration Detention as a Shadow Carceral System, 28 Theoretical Criminology 577-598 (2024)
Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction, in Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration 155-174 (Michelle Peterie ed., 2024) (with Christopher Levesque)
Beyond Legal Deserts: Access to Counsel for Immigrants Facing Removal, 101 North Carolina Law Review 787-840 (2023) (with Reed Humphrey)
A Study of Pandemic and Stigma Effects in Removal Proceedings, 19 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 560-593 (2022) (with Ian Peacock)
Citizenship Disparities, 101 Minnesota Law Review 1-76 (2022) (with Reed Humphrey)
Privatized Immigration Detention: Morality, Economics, and Transparency, in Privatising Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State 110-130 (Mary Bosworth & Lucia Zedner eds., 2022) (with Ian Peacock)
The Importance of Race, Gender, and Religion in Naturalization Adjudication in the United States, 119 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, article e2114430119, 1-7 (2022) (with Reed Humphrey)
Children in Custody: A Study of Detained Migrant Children in the United States, 68 UCLA Law Review 136-211 (2021) (with Reed Humphrey)
Represented But Unequal: The Contingent Effect of Legal Representation in Removal Proceedings, 55 Law & Society Review 634-656 (2021) (with Ian Peacock)
The Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policies, 118 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, article e21030001, 1-7 (2021)
Denying Citizenship: Immigration Enforcement and Citizenship Rights in the United States, in Law and the Citizen 43-67 (Austin Sarat ed., 2020) (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 84) (with Ian Peacock)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Immigration Detention, 54 Law & Society Review 750-754 (2020)
Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983-2013, 54 Law & Society Review 66-101 (2020) (with Ian Peacock)
Beyond the Walls: The Importance of Community Contexts in Immigration Detention, 63 American Behavioral Scientist 1250-1275 (2019) (with Ian Peacock)
Changing Patterns of Interior Immigration Enforcement in the United States, 2016-2018 (American Immigration Council, 2019) (with others)
Detention as Deterrence, 71 Stanford Law Review Online 237-250 (2019)
Predicting Danger in Immigration Courts, 44 Law & Social Inquiry 227-256 (2019)
Understanding Immigration Detention: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences, 15 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 97-115 (2019) (reprinted in 40 Immigration & Nationality Law Review 139-157 (2019))
A National Study of Immigration Detention in the United States, 92 Southern California Law Review 1-67 (2018) (reprinted in 39 Immigration & Nationality Law Review 363-429 (2018)) (with Ian Peacock)
Representing Immigrants: The Role of Lawyers in Immigration Bond Hearings, 52 Law & Society Review 503-531 (2018) (reprinted in Bender's Immigration Bulletin 3-25 (2019)
Fostering Legal Cynicism Through Immigration Detention, 90 Southern California Law Review 999-1053 (2017) (reprinted in 38 Immigration & Nationality Law Review 407-461 (2017))
Legal Attitudes of Immigrant Detainees, 51 Law & Society Review 99-131 (2017)
On Normative Effects of Immigration Law, 13 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 95-135 (2017)
The Promise of a Subject-Centered Approach to Understanding Immigration Noncompliance, 5 Journal on Migration and Human Security 285-296 (2017)
Detained: A Study of Immigration Bond Hearings, 50 Law & Society Review 117-153 (2016)
Less Enforcement, More Compliance: Rethinking Unauthorized Migration, 62 UCLA Law Review 622-670 (2015)
Moral Judgments, Expressive Functions, and Bias in Immigration Law, 35 Immigration and Nationality Law Review 3-18 (2014) (reviewing Hiroshi Motomura, Immigration Outside the Law (2014))
Deciding to Cross: The Norms and Economics of Unauthorized Migration, 78 American Sociological Review 574-603 (2013)
Poverty Alleviation Through Public Works, in Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works 93-95 (Scott J. Myers-Lipton ed., 2009)
Culture of Poverty, in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (Richard T. Schaefer ed., 2008)
The Lost Sanctuary: Examining Sex Trafficking Through the Lens of United States v. Ah Sou, 41 Cornell International Law Journal 739-773 (2008) (with M. Margaret McKeown)
Organizational Diversity, Vitality and Outcomes in the Civil Rights Movement, 85 Social Forces 1561-1591 (2007) (with Susan Olzak)
Book Review, 2 Law, Culture and the Humanities 472-474 (2006) (reviewing John S. W. Park, Elusive Citizenship: Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights (2004))
Did Katrina Recalibrate Attitudes Toward Poverty and Inequality?: A Test of the ‘Dirty Little Secret’ Hypothesis, 3 Du Bois Review 59-82 (2006) (with David B. Grusky)
Through the Back Door: Applying Theories of Legal Compliance to Illegal Immigration During the Chinese Exclusion Era, 31 Law & Social Inquiry 109-146 (2006)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

How ICE Enforcement Has Changed Under the Trump Administration, The Conversation (July 29, 2019)

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Newspaper Articles and Commentary