CMMU Faculty

Research Interests

Immigrant Incorporation, Civic Engagement, Social Inequality, Latinos in the U.S., Youth Transitions to Adulthood, Quantitative Methods, Mixed-Methods.

Biography, Education and Training

2009. Ph.D., Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles

2000. M.A., Social and Cultural Studies of Education, Berkeley School of Education. 

1997. B.A., Sociology (cum laude), Harvard University

Dr. Veronica Terriquez received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles, her M.A. in Education at the University of California Berkeley, and her B.A. in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research examines how individuals’ demographic characteristics − as well as their ties to civic organizations, schools, and other institutions − reproduce or challenge patterns of social inequality. Much of her research has implications for policies affecting low-income, immigrant, and Latino communities. Dr. Terriquez has prior experience working as a community organizer and volunteer for various education reform, immigrant rights, labor rights, and racial justice efforts.  She is the principal investigator of the California Young Adult Study and the Youth Leadership and Health Study.

Honors, Awards and Grants

Awards/Honors

• 2013-2014. Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mentor-Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley.
• 2012. American Sociological Association Distinguished Research – Distinguished Article Award in the Area of Latino Sociology.

Grants

• 2012-2015. Principal Investigator: The California Endowment, Civic Engagement and the Healthy Development of California’s Youth Population, USC PERE,  $511,474.
• 2013-2014. Principal Investigator: Heising-Simons, Understanding the Effects of Widened Access Among Undocumented Young Adults, USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, $40,000. 
• 2013-2014. Principal Investigator: The California Endowment, Youth Organizing in the Hinterlands: An evaluation of ICUC’s work to promote positive health outcomes among youth in the Inland Empire, USC PERE, $20,000.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• 2019. Terriquez, Veronica and May Lin. “Yesterday they Marched, Today they Mobilized the Vote: A Developmental Model for Civic Leadership Among the Children of Immigrants.”  Online. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
• 2018. Terriquez, Veronica, Tizoc Brenes, and Abdiel Lopez. “Intersectionality as a multipurpose collective action frame: the case of the undocumented youth movement.” Ethnicities 18(2): 260-276.
• 2018. Pastor, Manuel, Veronica Terriquez, and *May Lin. “How Community Organizing Promotes Health Equity and How Health Equity Impacts Organizing.”  Health Affairs 37(3): 358-363.
• 2017. Terriquez, Veronica.“Legal Status, Civic Associations, and Political Participation among Latino Young Adults.” Sociological Quarterly 58(2): 315-336.
• 2016. Terriquez, Veronica and Tiffany Joseph. "Ethno-racial Inequality an Insurance Coverage Among Latino Young Adults." Social Science & Medicine, 168: 150-158.
• 2016. Bloemraad, Irene and Veronica Terriquez. “The Organizational Foundations of Advancing Health in Immigrant and Low-Income Communities of Color.” Social Science and Medicine.
• 2015. Terriquez, Veronica. “Dreams Delayed: Barriers to Degree Completion among Undocumented Latino Community College Students.”  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41 (8): 1302-1323.
• 2015. Terriquez, Veronica and Oded Gurantz. “Financial Challenges in Emerging Adulthood and Students’ Decisions to Stop Out of College.”  Emerging Adulthood 3(3): 204-214.
• 2015. “Intersectional Mobilization, Social Movement Spillover, and Queer Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement.” Social Problems.
• 2015. “Training Young Activists: Grassroots Organizing and Youths’ Civic and Political Trajectories.” Sociological Perspectives.
• 2014. “Intergenerational Family Relations, Civic Organizations, and the Political Socialization of Second Generation Immigrant Youth.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Co-authored with H. Kwon (student).
• 2014. “Trapped in the Working Class?: Prospects for the Intergenerational (Im) mobility of Latino Youth.” Sociological Inquiry.
• 2011. “Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and the School-Based Civic Engagement of Latino Immigrant Parents.” American Sociological Review.

Selected Presentations

Public Lecture or Forum Participation

• 2015. “Crossing the Activist Scholar Line.” Special Session at the American Sociological Association Meeting.
• 2014. “Civic Engagement, Civic Institutions, and the Second Generation,” presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Population, Panel on Integrating Immigrants into America.
• 2014. “Emerging Political Power among Youth from Immigrant Families,” presented at the Memory and Migration Conference, Cal State Northridge.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

• 2015."Legal Status, Civic Organizations, and the Political Participation of Latino Young Adults," presented at the American Sociological Association, in Chicago.
• 2014. "Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and the School-Based Civic Engagement of Latino Immigrants," presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association Meeting.
• 2014. “Out of the Shadows and Out of the Closet: the Leadership of LGBTQ Youth in the Immigrant Rights Movement,” presented at the Pacific Sociological Association.