People

• "Migrant Communities: Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Placemaking under Uncertain Timelines" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 2149059): Examines shifts in spaces of “transit” to settlement for sub-Saharan Africans in Morocco, focused on forced immobility, legal status precarity, gendered geographies of power, and local processes of racialization (with Dr. Tara Deubel)
• "Mixed-Status Families and Citizenship in the Contemporary Migration Experience" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1535664 and the Wenner-Gren Foundation): Focuses on mixed-status families living along the US/Mexico border
• "Legal Status and the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adult Immigrants" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1729396): examines social and emotional well-being of undocumented youth and DACA recipients in Florida
• "Indigenous Mobilities: Amazigh Im/migrants in the United States"

Books

• Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives. Routledge, 2023. 
• Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families. Stanford University Press, 2019.
• Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. Mulligan, Jessica & Castañeda, Heide, editors. NYU Press, 2018.

Select Articles & Chapters

• Castañeda, Heide, Melanie Escue, and Elizabeth Aranda (2023) A Lot of People There were Undocumented, or at Least Looked Like Me”: Illegality, Visibility, and Vulnerability among Immigrant Young Adults in Florida. Journal of Cultural Geography.
• Lucas, William, Castañeda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. 2023. The Lingering Ache: Temporalities of Oral Health Suffering in US-Mexico Border Communities. Human Organization 82(2): 131-141.
• Lopez, William D, and Heide Castañeda. 2022. The Mixed-Status Community as an Analytic Framework to Understand the Impacts of Immigration Enforcement on Health. Social Science & Medicine 307: 115180.

• Castañeda, Heide (2022) Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health. In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, Wiley.

• Vaquera, Elizabeth, Castañeda, Heide, and Aranda, Elizabeth (2022) Legal and Ethnoracial Consciousness: Perceptions of Immigrant Media Narratives among the Latino Undocumented 1.5 Generation. American Behavioral Scientist.
• Smith, Sarah A. and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging and Precarity of Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
• Logan, Ryan, Melo, Milena A, and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health Within Mixed-Status Families. Medical Anthropology 40(7): 639-652.
• Castañeda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2019) Geographies of Confinement for Immigrant Youth: Checkpoints and Immobilities along the US/Mexico Border. Law & Policy 41(1): 80-102.
• Holmes, Seth and Castañeda, Heide (2016) Representing the European Refugee Crisis in Germany and Beyond: Deservingness and Difference, Life and Death. American Ethnologist 43(1): 12-24.
• Castañeda, Heide, Holmes, Seth M., Madrigal, Daniel S., Young, Maria-Elena DeTrinidad, Beyerle, Naomi, and Quesada, James (2015) Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health. Annual Review of Public Health 36:375-392.