Social work expert, focusing on the relationship between youth and familial ties.
USC Experts
Margarita Artavia
Oral Health and Social Work Mental Health Children, Youth, and Adults Inter-professional Collaboration Immigration Cultural Humility
Omar Lopez
Expert on workforce development and training initiatives, immigration, and public child welfare issues
Avelardo Valdez
Expert on the relationship between substance abuse and violence and health issues among high-risk groups.
A win for ‘Dreamers’: US Supreme Court decision blocks dismantling of DACA
Contact: USC Media Relations at uscnews@usc.edu or (213) 740-2215. The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in effect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy that protects undocumented immigrants whose families brought them into the country as children. The decision is a reprieve for about 700,000 “dreamers,” many of whom have closely monitored the Trump Administration’s […]
Natalia Molina
How the history of race, citizenship and immigration shapes our lives today
Will Trump keep fighting for Census citizenship question?
Two weeks after a Supreme Court decision halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, President Donald Trump is expected to announce an executive action today to obtain an estimate of U.S. citizenship through other means. News of Trump’s expected announcement comes days after a federal judge rejected the administration’s plan to […]
Jody Agius Vallejo
Expert in immigrant integration and race and ethnicity, with a focus on Latinos and Latino Americans
Dowell Myers
- Housing growth and homeownership trends
- Demographic trends and population change
- Millennials
- Baby Boomers
- Children
- Immigration
- Urban growth, sprawl and quality of life
- Future of California