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  1. Tran, Van C. 2024. “Asian American Diversity and Growth.” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 50. Forthcoming.
  2. Zapatka, Kasey and Van C. Tran. 2023. “New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(1): 52-83.
  3. Holder, Jay, Ivan Calaff, Brett Maricque, and Van C. Tran. 2022. “Concentrated Incarceration and the Public-Housing-to-Prison Pipeline in New York City neighborhoods.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): 119 (36) e2123201119.
  4. Abascal, Maria, Tiffany J. Huang and Van C. Tran. 2021. “Intervening in Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Causal Effects of Factual Information on Attitudes toward Immigration.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: 697(1):174-191.
  5. Tran, Van C. and Natasha K. Warikoo. 2021. “Asian American Perspectives on Immigration Policy.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7(2):154-177.
  6. Tran, Van C. and Francisco Lara-García. 2020. “A New Beginning: Integration of Recent Refugees in the Early Years of Arrival to the United States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6(3): 117-149.
  7. Tran, Van C., Fei Guo and Tiffany Huang. 2020. “The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and in the United States.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 690(1): 36-60.
  8. Tran, Van C. 2020. “The Borders Around Us: Forced Migration and the Politics of Border Control.” City & Community 19(2): 323-329. 
  9. Tran, Van C. 2020. “Second-Generation Contextual Mobility: Neighborhood Attainment from Birth to Young Adulthood in the United States.” International Migration Review 54(2): 356-387.
  10. Lee, Jennifer and Van C. Tran. 2019. “The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action.” Sociological Science doi.org/10.15195/v6.a21.
  11. Tran, Van C., Jennifer Lee and Tiffany Huang. 2019. “Revisiting the Asian Second-Generation Advantage.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(13): 2248-2269.
  12. Valdez, Nicol M. and Van C. Tran. 2019. “Gendered Context of Assimilation: The Female Second-Generation Advantage among Latinos.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(9):1709-36.
  13. Tran, Van C. 2019. “Coming of Age in Multi-Ethnic America: Young Adults’ Experiences with Diversity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(1):35-52.
  14. Tran, Van C. 2018. “Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 667(1):105-188.
  15. Tran, Van C., Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian and Jess Lee. 2018. “Hyper-Selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(5):189-209.
  16. Tran, Van C. and Katharine M. Donato. 2018. “The Social Provision of Healthcare to Migrants in the U.S. and in China.” China Population and Development Studies 2(1):83-107.
  17. Tran, Van C. and Nicol M. Valdez. 2017. “Second-Generation Decline or Advantage? Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession.” International Migration Review 51(1):155-90.
  18. Tran, Van C. 2017. “Beyond the Ballot Box: Age-At-Arrival, Civic Institutions, and Political Participation among Latinos.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(5):766-790.
  19. Tran, Van C. 2016. “Social Mobility among Second-Generation Latinos.” Contexts 15(2):28-33.
  20. Tran, Van C. 2015. “Revisiting the Americano Dream.” Pathways, Spring:18-23.
  21. Lee, David C., Brendan G. Carr, Tony E. Smith, Van C. Tran, Daniel Polsky and Charles C. Branas. 2015. “The Impact of Hospital Closures, Hospital and Population Characteristics on Increasing Emergency Department Volume: A Geographic Analysis.” Population Health Management 18(6):459-466.
  22. Hopkins, Daniel J., Van C. Tran and Abigail F. Williamson. 2014. “See No Spanish: Language, Local Context, and Attitudes toward Immigration.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 2(1):35-51.
  23. Tran, Van C., Corina Graif, Alison D. Jones, Mario L. Small, and Christopher Winship. 2013. “Participation in Context: Neighborhood Diversity and Organizational Involvement in Boston.” City & Community 12(3):187-210.
  24. Tran, Van C. 2010. “English Gain vs. Spanish Loss?  Language Assimilation among Second-Generation Latinos in Young Adulthood.” Social Forces 89(1):257-284.
  25. Waters, Mary C., Van C. Tran, Philip Kasinitz and John H. Mollenkopf. 2010. “Segmented Assimilation Revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Outcomes in Young Adulthood.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(7):1168-1193.