Media Coverage

Soaring Housing Costs Make Life Even More Challenging for Oakland’s Unaccompanied Minors; Kristina Lovato in KQED

March 28, 2025

The mental health needs of unaccompanied minors are severely impacted upon resettlement in the U.S.... They’ve dreamed of being in the U.S. for the ability to go to college, the ability to send money back home, but once they arrive here, there’s a different reality and they realize that they have to go to work immediately.

— Kristina Lovato, Associate Professor and director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, quoted in KQED,...

ICE, Schools and Children: What Families Should Know; Kristina Lovato in KQED

February 13, 2025

It’s “really important” for every family who could be affected by immigration enforcement to have what agencies and organizations call “a family preparedness plan” in case of an emergency.

— Kristina Lovato, Associate Professor and Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative, in KQED: "ICE, Schools and Children: What Families Should Know"

San José Adopts Controversial Plan to Bus Homeless People Out of the City; Jamie Chang in KQED article

February 26, 2025

It’s not the inability to get a ticket to go home that’s the issue. For most people who are homeless, it’s actually having a safe place to go home to begin with, as well as having the adequate services to treat trauma, and mental health, and access to quality substance use treatment.

Jamie Chang, Associate Professor, quoted in KQED's article, "San José Adopts Controversial Plan to Bus Homeless People Out of the City"

How hardline anti-immigrant policies are threatening the right to education; Kristina Lovato in the The Guardian

April 2, 2025

Restricting access to education would also deepen social divisions and negatively affect the entire American economy by exacerbating marginalization and impoverishment...

— Kristina Lovato, Associate Professor and director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, quoted in The Guardian, "How hardline anti-immigrant policies are threatening the right to education"