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    Mexican Exodus

    Julia G. Young, Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2015)

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    Local Church, Global Church

    Stephen J.C. Andes and Julia G. Young, ed., Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II (The Catholic University of America Press, 2016)

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"Fascists, Nazis, or Something Else? Mexico's Union Nacional Sinarquista in the U.S. Media, 1937-1945,” The Americas, 79:2, (April 2022), 229–261.
 
“Creating Catholic Utopias: Mexican Religious Activism and the Unión Nacional Sinarquista During the 1940s,” Catholic Southwest (December 2018)  

"Making America 1920 Again? Nativism and US Immigration, Past and Present," Journal on Migration and Human Security 5:1 (2017)

“A 'Sorrowful Caravan'? Rhetoric vs. Reality in Mexico's Debate over Emigration, 1926-1929,” in Historia de la Migración Mexicana a Estados Unidos. Visiones Comparadas (Siglo XIX - 2012), eds. Rafael Alarcón and Fernando Saúl Alanis. México: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colegio de San Luis, y El Colegio de Michoacán (2017).

"The Calles Government and Catholic Dissidents: Mexico's Transnational Projects of Repression, 1926-1929," The Americas 70:1, July 2013.

“Cristero Diaspora: Mexican Emigrants, the U.S. Catholic Church, and Mexico’s Cristero War, 1926-1929,” The Catholic Historical Review 98:2, April 2012.

 

Media Publications

Pope Francis’s Legacy in Latin America,” Latin America Advisor newsletter, the Inter-American Dialogue, May 2, 2025

The Long Shadow of Mexico’s War Over Catholicism," with Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Americas Quarterly, April 2025

 “Why so many Latino voters supported Donald Trump,” with Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, The Conversation, February 10, 2025

“Migration,” in The Next President of the United States: Challenges and Recommendations for the US-Mexico Relationship, Mexico Institute | Wilson Center, co-written with Ernesto Castañeda, November 2024

“Social media is revolutionizing migration into the US – and spreading dangerous misinformation,” co-written with Harrison Hanvey, The Hill, April 16, 2024

“Mother Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants. Would her story be possible today?,” co-written with Christopher Ross, America Magazine, March 19, 2024

“The Situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Can’t be ‘Solved’ Without Acknowledging its Origins,” TIME.com, March 31, 2021

“Sore Loser Politics: A Mexican Lesson About Trump,” with Carlos Bravo Regidor, The Hill, January 19, 2021

“The depressing futility of ICE workplace raids,” The Hill, July 9, 2019

“A wall can’t stop America’s addiction to undocumented immigration,” The Washington Post, January 9, 2019