| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality” | Latino Studies | 2004 | 436 |
| 2 | “I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”: Incorporation Patterns Of Latino Undocumented Youth | Latino Studies | 2006 | 379 |
| 3 | Latino immigrant men and the deportation crisis: A gendered racial removal program | Latino Studies | 2013 | 327 |
| 4 | The Managed Violences of the Borderlands: Treacherous Geographies, Policeability, and the Politics of Race | Latino Studies | 2006 | 110 |
| 5 | Central American- Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation in the US Latino World | Latino Studies | 2003 | 97 |
| 6 | Fractured Families and Communities: Effects of Immigration Reform in Texas, Mexico, and El Salvador | Latino Studies | 2004 | 96 |
| 7 | The power of the law: Central Americans’ legality and everyday life in Phoenix, Arizona | Latino Studies | 2011 | 94 |
| 8 | Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture | Latino Studies | 2003 | 93 |
| 9 | Reframing Mexican Migration as a Multi-Ethnic Process | Latino Studies | 2006 | 89 |
| 10 | Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention | Latino Studies | 2008 | 89 |
| 11 | Latinx thoughts: Latinidad with an X | Latino Studies | 2018 | 81 |
| 12 | Undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic: Re-articulatory practices and migrant youth “illegality” | Latino Studies | 2014 | 78 |
| 13 | TWB (Talking while Bilingual): Linguistic profiling of Latina/os, and other linguistic torquemadas | Latino Studies | 2014 | 73 |
| 14 | A Poetics of Love and Rescue in the Collection of Chicana/o Art | Latino Studies | 2007 | 72 |
| 15 | Dreaming beyond the fields: Undocumented youth, rural realities and a constellation of disadvantage | Latino Studies | 2014 | 71 |
| 16 | “Wise Up!” Undocumented Latino Youth, Mexican-American Legislators, and the Struggle for Higher Education Access | Latino Studies | 2004 | 70 |
| 17 | ‘Too Black to be Latino/a:’ Blackness and Blacks as Foreigners in Latino Studies | Latino Studies | 2003 | 67 |
| 18 | Disrupting the dream: Undocumented youth reframe citizenship and deportability through anti-deportation activism | Latino Studies | 2014 | 67 |
| 19 | Gendering Latinidad through the Elián News Discourse about Cuban Women | Latino Studies | 2005 | 63 |
| 20 | Lost (and Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric Dialogue | Latino Studies | 2006 | 57 |
| 21 | A Critically Compassionate Pedagogy for Latino Youth | Latino Studies | 2006 | 52 |
| 22 | The Identity Paradox: Latino Language, Politics and Selective Dissociation | Latino Studies | 2003 | 51 |
| 23 | Being out to others: The relative importance of family support, identity and religion for LGBT latina/os | Latino Studies | 2015 | 51 |
| 24 | Dual Citizenship and Political Participation: Migrants in the Interplay of United States and Colombian Politics | Latino Studies | 2004 | 50 |
| 25 | Making masculinity: Negotiations of gender presentation among Latino gay men | Latino Studies | 2012 | 50 |
| 26 | Racialized illegality: The regulation of informal labor and space | Latino Studies | 2016 | 50 |
| 27 | Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances: Racialization, Surveillance, and the Politics of “Worthiness” in Puerto Rican Chicago | Latino Studies | 2004 | 48 |
| 28 | US Central Americans: Representations, agency and communities | Latino Studies | 2013 | 47 |
| 29 | Latina girls speak out: Stereotypes, gender and relationship dynamics | Latino Studies | 2014 | 46 |
| 30 | The Costs of Contradiction: US Border Policy 1986–2000 | Latino Studies | 2003 | 45 |
| 31 | Affirming an Afro-Latin@ Identity: An Interview with Poet María Teresa (Mariposa) Fernández | Latino Studies | 2014 | 45 |
| 32 | Killing two birds with one stone? Why we need two separate questions on race and ethnicity in the 2020 census and beyond | Latino Studies | 2013 | 43 |
| 33 | “You Just Don't Know How Much He Meant”: Deviancy, Death, and Devaluation | Latino Studies | 2007 | 42 |
| 34 | Unidos Por La Justicia and Mujeres Fuertes: Grassroots groups shaping Mexican immigrant women's activism in San José, California | Latino Studies | 2010 | 42 |
| 35 | The black lector and Martín Morúa Delgado’s Sofía (1891) and La familia Unzúazu (1901) | Latino Studies | 2015 | 41 |
| 36 | Shakira as the Idealized, Transnational Citizen: A case study of Colombianidad in Transition | Latino Studies | 2003 | 40 |
| 37 | Transforming Citizenship: Membership, Strategies of Containment, and the Public Sphere in Latino Communities | Latino Studies | 2004 | 39 |
| 38 | Are Anti-Immigrant Statements Racist or Nativist? What Difference Does it Make? | Latino Studies | 2006 | 39 |
| 39 | Inventing the Race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon | Latino Studies | 2003 | 38 |
| 40 | Necesidades y Problemas: Immigrant Latina Vernaculars of Belonging, Coalition, & Citizenship in San Francisco, California | Latino Studies | 2004 | 37 |
| 41 | Nation, Migration, Identity: The Case of Puerto Ricans | Latino Studies | 2003 | 35 |
| 42 | “Departamento 15”: Cultural Narratives of Salvadoran Transnational Migration | Latino Studies | 2005 | 35 |
| 43 | What happened to the wages of Mexican immigrants? Trends and interpretations | Latino Studies | 2010 | 35 |
| 44 | Mediated Resistance: The Construction of Neoliberal Citizenship in the Immigrant Rights Movement | Latino Studies | 2009 | 33 |
| 45 | Latinx? | Latino Studies | 2018 | 33 |
| 46 | An “incredible number of Latinos and Asians:” Media representations of racial and ethnic population change in Atlanta, Georgia | Latino Studies | 2011 | 32 |
| 47 | “Ser De Aquí”: Beyond the Cuban Exile Model | Latino Studies | 2003 | 31 |
| 48 | Migrant melodrama and Elvira Arellano | Latino Studies | 2012 | 30 |
| 49 | Latinos as the “Living Dead”: Raciality, expendability, and border militarization | Latino Studies | 2012 | 30 |
| 50 | Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas | Latino Studies | 2010 | 29 |
