Publications

Journal articles:

Galli, Chiara. 2026. “To Exclude or Protect: Unaccompanied Minors and the Failures of Immigration Law.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 22. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-042224-100208

Galli, Chiara & Tatiana Padilla. 2026. “The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Minors in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, & Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel.” Law & Social Inquiry: 1-32. Online first: https://doi:10.1017/lsi.2026.10145

Galli, Chiara & Tatiana Padilla. 2025. “Deporting Children: Case Outcomes for Unaccompanied Minors Facing Removal Proceedings in US Immigration Court.” Social Forces. Online first https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf124 click here to read

Galli, Chiara & Tatiana Padilla. 2025. “New Statistics on the Unaccompanied Minors in US Immigration Court (2009-2023).” International Migration Review. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251316528 Open access: click here to read

Galli, Chiara & Filiz Garip. 2024. “Bringing children to the center of migration theory.” International Migration Review. 58(4):1876-1912

https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241268129

American Sociological Association (ASA), International Migration Section, Louis Wirth Best Article Award, 2025
ASA, Children and Youth Section, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award (Best article), 2025

Galli, Chiara. 2023. "The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic 'Crisis' on Unaccompanied Minors Navigating Removal Proceedings in the US." Social Sciences 12 (7): 373. Open access, click here to read.

Galli, Chiara. 2023. "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing? What Central American Unaccompanied Minors Know About Crossing the US-Mexico Border." Journal of Borderlands Studies 38 (6): 975-993. To read: click here (journal website) OR here (author version/free)

Galli, Chiara. 2020. "The Ambivalent US Context of Reception and the Dichotomous Legal Consciousness of Unaccompanied Minors" Social Problems 67 (4), 763-781. To read: click here (journal website) OR here (author version/free)

Galli, Chiara. 2020. "Humanitarian Capital: How Lawyers Help Immigrants Use Suffering to Claim Membership in the Nation-State" Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46 (11), 2181-2198. To read: click here (journal website) OR here (author version/free)

ASA, International Migration Section, Louis Wirth Best Article Award, honorable mention, 2021

Galli, Chiara. 2018. “A Rite of Reverse Passage: The Construction of Youth Migration in the US Asylum Process.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41(9):1651-1671. To read: click here (journal website) OR here (author version/free)

Book chapters:

Galli, Chiara. 2024. “Child migration: who, where, when, why?” Chapter 9 in Handbook on Human Mobilities and Migrations, Ettore Recchi and Mirna Safi eds. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Galli, Chiara and Molly Fee. 2023. “Refugees Welcome? Historicizing the Context of Reception in US Resettlement and Asylum Policy.” Chapter 3 in Global Atlas on Refuge and Asylum Ana Vila Freyer and Ibrahim Sirkeci eds, Transnational Press London.

Galli, Chiara. 2021. “The Obama Administration’s Central American Minors (CAM) Program (2015-2017): a safe and legal pathway to the U.S.?” Chapter 8 In The Multiple Borders to Reach the North. Young migrants claiming their place in the North American migratory system, edited by Ana Vila Freyer and Liliana Meza Gonzales. London: London Transnational Press

Galli, Chiara. 2014. "Immigrazione e imprenditoria nella Spagna della crisi economica". [Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Spain during the Financial Crisis] pp. 43-48 in Rapporto immigrazione e imprenditoria 2014 edited by M.P. Nanni & F. Pittau. Rome, Italy: Edizioni IDOS.

Galli, Chiara & Carmen Lizarraga. 2012. "Creación de un área de apoyo a los microemprendedores inmigrantes en riesgo de exclusión social en Granada (España)". [Supporting Immigrant Microentrepreneurs at Risk of Social Exclusion in Granada, Spain.] pp. 293-308 in Empresariado inmigrante, instituciones y desarrollo edited by F. López Castellano, F. García-Quero & M. Aboussi. Granada, Spain: Editorial Comares.

Research briefs and reports:

Galli, Chiara. 2018. "No Country for Immigrant Children: From Obama’s “Humanitarian Crisis” to Trump’s Criminalization of Central American Unaccompanied Minors" California Immigration Research Initiative (CIRI) Research Brief Series #6 Spring 2018. Click here to read

Galli, Chiara. 2018. "Protecting Children? Assessing the Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors in the U.S." Latino Public Policy 2. Click here to read

Galli, Chiara, Franco Pittau & Antonio Ricci, eds. 2014. "Migrant Access to Social Security: The Italian Case." Seventh European Migration Network (EMN) Italy Report. Rome, Italy: Edizioni IDOS. Click here to read

Cesarini, Enrico, Raniero Cramerotti, Chiara Galli, Zsuzsana Pasztor, Franco Pittau & Antonio Ricci, eds. 2014. "Annual Policy Report on Immigration and Asylum in Italy 2013." European Migration Network - Italian National Contact Point. Click here to read