Dr Luis Edward Tenorio
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colby College, United States
Email: ltenorio@colby.edu
Profile
Luis Edward Tenorio engages in research that asks how legal status, racialized identities, and people’s interactions with the state and the law transform immigrants’ lives. One of his projects examines how unaccompanied minors from Central America arriving in the New York metropolitan area navigated their early years in the U.S. and the pursuit of immigration protections. Tenorio completed his doctorate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Research
Publications
- How public benefits make citizens in Latino mixed-status families: self-efficacy, institutional engagement, and concerted citizenship cultivation. Social Forces. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf081
- Disclosure and the Evolving Legal Consciousness of Sexual and Gender Minority Central American Unaccompanied Minors. Law & Social Inquiry. 2025;50(1):195-224. doi:10.1017/lsi.2024.38
- Legal care work: emotion and care work in lawyering with unaccompanied minors. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2024; 51(13): 3300–3319. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2401601
- Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and the Integration of Central American Unaccompanied Minors. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2020, 6 (3): 172-189; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.3.08