Articles - Heide Castañeda, Ph.D., MPH, Professor and Researcher

✨ New ~Castañeda, Heide (2026) “The Gendered Work of Diaspora: Moroccan Amazigh Women Navigating Belonging in the United States.” Journal of Amazigh Studies 4(1).

Explores how Amazigh women in the United States experience changing gender roles, identity, and visibility as part of migration and Indigenous life. Shows how these shifts open new opportunities for agency and community while challenging traditional expectations and inequalities.

Castañeda, Heide (2025) “The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas: Are there Effective Points of Intervention in the Humanitarianism-Equity Dilemma? Institutionalization of Civil Society Organisations in the Migrant Health Sector.” European University Institute/Migration Policy Center.

This article examines the ethical dilemma that arises when nonprofits step in to provide healthcare for undocumented migrants, often filling gaps left by governments. It shows how these efforts, while compassionate, can unintentionally enable state inaction and undermine long-term equity in access to care.
Castañeda, Heide and William Lucas (2025) Migration and Health Behaviors. Handbook of Social Epidemiology, Pp. 161-173 Berlin: De Gruyter.
Escue, Melanie, Castañeda, Heide, and Aranda, Elizabeth (2025) Role of Informal Support Networks in Immigrant Young Adults’ Navigation of Mental Healthcare Services. Qualitative Health Research.
Mou J, LaSalle G, Pflugeisen C, Sherls-Jones J, Castañeda H, Zaragoza G, Smith C, Mays J, Villarreal N. (2025) Practice, Beliefs, and Intent in Influenza Vaccination Among Hispanic Patients During the Pandemic: An Interventional Study. Vaccine 58: 127207.
Castañeda, Heide and Amine Bit (2024) “Do I Really Need to Check that Box?” Ethnoracial Ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(7): 1963-1980.
Castañeda, Heide (2024) Spaces and Challenges of Citizenship. American Ethnologist 51(3): 402-403.
🔓 Open Access ~ Guillot-Wright, Shannon, Lacy Davis, Hoang thuy linh Truong, Heide Castañeda, and Anabel Rodriguez (2024) “The Hotel of 10,000 Stars”: The Impact of Structural-Social Determinants of Health among Im/migrant Shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico. American Journal of Public Health 114(8):824–832.
Castañeda, Heide (2024) Struggles and Triumphs: Amazigh Constitutional Claims and Bureaucratic Disentitlement in Morocco. International Law Review
Castañeda, Heide (2024) Tamazgha as Indigeneity-Informed Approach Transforming Scholarship on Borders and Migration. Tamazgha Studies Journal 1(1): 45-54.
Aranda, Elizabeth, Vaquera, Elizabeth, Castañeda, Heide, and Escue, Melanie (2024) Normalized Expendability: Navigating Immigrant Legal Status during a Global Pandemic. American Behavioral Scientist.
🔓 Open Access ~ 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.
Wurtz Heather and Castañeda, Heide (2023) “Migration in Families and Households. In Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration, Edward Elgar Press.
Castañeda, Heide and Seth M. Holmes (2023) The Lived Experience of Stigma among Immigrant Youth. In Stigma Processes in the Context of Migration-Generated Diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Velásquez, Paolo, Maureen A. Eger, Heide Castañeda, Christian S. Czymara, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Rahsaan Maxwell, Dina Okamoto, and Rima Wilkes (2023) Processes of Stigmatization and De Stigmatization over Time. In Stigma Processes in the Context of Migration-Generated Diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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.
🔓 Open Access ~ Aranda, Elizabeth, Vaquera, Elizabeth, Castañeda, Heide, and Girsea Martinez-Rosas. (2022). Undocumented Again? DACA Rescission, Emotions, and Incorporation Outcomes Among Undocumented Young Adults. Social Forces.
Castañeda, Heide (2022) Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health. In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, Wiley.
Castañeda, Heide (2022) Conclusion. In Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy. Berghahn Books.
🔓 Open Access ~ 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.
Villalona, Seiichi, Heide Castañeda, Jason W. Wilson, Nancy Romero-Daza, Mery Yanez Yuncosa, and Christian Jeannot (2022). Discordance Between Satisfaction and Health Literacy Among Spanish-Speaking Patients with Limited English-Proficiency Seeking Emergency Department Care. Hispanic Health Care International.
Tursunova, Zulfiya, Heide Castañeda, David Fraccaro, and Jennifer Marquez-Trejo (2021) The Role of Civil Society in Creating Spaces of Belonging for Refugees and Undocumented Residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis.
Castañeda, Heide. (2021) Migration and Health. In Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness. Routledge.
Castañeda, Heide (2021) Migrant*innen ohne Dokumente. In Handbuch zu Migration und Gesundheit. Hogrefe Verlag.
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.
⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ 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.
⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ Holmes, Seth M, Ernesto Castañeda, Jérémy Geeraert, Heide Castañeda, Ursula Probst, Nina Zeldes, Sarah S. Willen, Yusupha Dibba, Raphael Frankfurter, and Heidi E. Fjeld. (2021) Deservingness: Migration and Health in Social Context. BMJ Global Health.
⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ Logan, Ryan I., and Castañeda, Heide (2020) Addressing Health Disparities in the Rural United States: Advocacy as Caregiving among Community Health Workers and Promotores de Salud. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(24), 9223.
Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, and Heide Castañeda (2020). Shifting Roles in Families of Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients and Implications for the Transition to Adulthood. Journal of Family Issues 42(9): 2111-2132.
Castañeda, Heide (2020) Review of Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law. Social Forces 99(1): e10.
Castañeda, Heide (2020) Review of Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 25(1): 168-184.
Mason, Katherine A., Sarah S. Willen, Seth M. Holmes, Denise A. Herd, Mark Nichter, Heide Castañeda, and Helena Hansen. (2020).How Do you Build a ‘Culture of Health’? A Critical Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities from Medical Anthropology. Population Health Management 23(6):476-481.
🔓 Open Access ~ 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.
Castañeda, Heide (2019) Review of Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship. American Anthropologist 121(2): 534-535.
Castañeda, Heide (2019) Enfoques Teóricos sobre la Migracion en Transito . In Migración de tránsito por la ruta pacífico: analizando al fenómeno y a sus actores. Brianda Elena Peraza Noriega, ed. Pp. 19-34. Sinaloa, MX.
Kline, Nolan and Castañeda, Heide (2019) Immigration Enforcement Policies and Latino Health. In New and Emerging Issues in Latina/o Health. New York: Springer.
Campbell, Rebecca and Heide Castañeda (2019) School Employees as Health Care Brokers for Multiply-Marginalized Migrant Families Medical Anthropology 38(8): 733-746.
Castañeda, Heide (2018). Stuck in Motion: Simultaneous Mobility and Immobility in Migrant Healthcare along the US/Mexico Border. In Healthcare in Motion: Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access.
Gómez, Sofia and Castañeda, Heide (2018) “Recognize Our Humanity”: Immigrant Youth Voices on Health Care in Arizona’s Restrictive Political Environment:Qualitative Health Research 29(4):498-509.
Castañeda, Heide (2017) Is Coverage Enough? Persistent Health Disparities in Marginalized Latino Border Communities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(12): 2003-2019.
🔓 Open Access ~ Fleuriet, K. Jill and Castañeda, Heide (2017) A Risky Place? Media and the Health Landscape in the (In)secure U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. North American Dialogue 20(2): 32-46.
Castañeda, Heide (2017) Stratification by Immigration Status: Contradictory Exclusion and Inclusion after Health Care Reform. In Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States, pp. 37-58.
Castañeda, Heide, Seth M. Holmes, Annastiina Kallius, and Daniel Monterescu (2016) Anthropology and Human Displacement: Mobilities, Ex/inclusions, and Activism. American Ethnologist.
⭐ Most Cited ~ 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 (2016) Health Care along the US/Mexico Border. In The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology.
Castañeda, Heide (2016) Shifting Discourses and Social Relations: The Production of Knowledge on Migration. Practicing Anthropology 38(1): 38-40.
Castañeda, Heide (2016) Review of The Colonias Reader: Economy, Housing, and Public Health in US-Mexico Border Colonias. In Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
⭐ Most Cited ~ 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.
Castañeda, Heide (2015) Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities and Life along the US/Mexico Border. In Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy. University of Washington Press.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2015) European Mobilities or “Poverty Migration”? Discourses on Roma in Germany. International Migration 53(3): 87-99.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Yarris, Kristin and Castañeda, Heide. 2015. Discourses of Displacement and Deservingness: Interrogating Distinctions between “Economic” and “Forced” Migration. International Migration 53(3): 64-69.
Holmes, Seth, and Castañeda, Heide (2014) Ethnographic Studies. In Migration and Health
Research Methodologies: A Handbook for the Study of Migrant Populations. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Castañeda, Heide (2014) Migrant Male Sex Workers in Germany. In Male Sex Work and Society. New York: Harrington Park Press.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2014) Health Care Access for Latino Mixed-Status Families: Barriers, Strategies, and Implications for Reform. American Behavioral Scientist.
Castañeda, Heide and Arango, James (2014) Health Concerns for Mexican Migrants in Central Florida: Collaborations with the Sending State via Mobile Consulates and Hometown Associations. Practicing Anthropology 36(3):43-47.
Christensen, Janelle J. and Castañeda, Heide (2014) Danger and Dementia: Caregiver Experiences and Shifting Social Roles during a Highly Active Hurricane Season. Journal of Gerontological Social Work 57(8): 825-844.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2013) Structural Vulnerability and Access to Medical Care among Migrant Street-Based Male Sex Workers in Germany. Social Science & Medicine 84:94-101.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2013) Medical Aid as Protest: Acts of Citizenship for Unauthorized Im/migrants and Refugees. Citizenship Studies 17(2):227-240.
Luque, John S., and Castañeda, Heide (2012) Delivery of Mobile Clinic Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: A Review of Practice Models for Community-Academic Partnerships. Journal of Community Health.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2012) “Over-Foreignization” Or " Unused Potential”? A Critical Review Of Migrant Health In Germany And Responses Toward Unauthorized Migration. Social Science & Medicine 74(6): 830-838.
🔓 Open Access ~ Carrion, Iraida V., Nedjat-Haiem, Frances R., Martinez-Tyson, Dinorah and Castañeda, Heide (2012) Advance Care Planning among Colombian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican Women with a Cancer Diagnosis. Supportive Care in Cancer.
Castañeda, Heide (2011) Effects of Transitional Measures Associated with EU Integration on Medical Care Access for Central and Eastern European Migrants in Germany. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 20(2): 68-86.
⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ Willen, Sarah S., Mulligan, Jessica, and Castañeda, Heide (2011) Take A Stand Commentary: How Can Medical Anthropologists Contribute to Contemporary Conversations on "Illegal" Im/migration and Health? Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25(3) 331–356.
Castañeda, Heide, Kline, Nolan, Rapp, Mackenzie, Demetriou, Nicole, Ahmed, Naheed, Chan, Isabella, Crocker, Theresa, Dickey, Nathaniel, Dillon, Patrick, Dotson, Hilary, Frost, Jordana, Hobbs, Natalie, Koby Novicki, Emily, McNab, Philip, Montiel-Ishino, Francisco, and Timmons, Colleen (2011) Assessing the 2010 Affordable Care Act: Perspectives of Future Health Care Professionals. Practicing Anthropology 33(4): 44 –48.
Martinez Tyson, Dinorah, Castañeda, Heide, Porter, Milagro, Quiroz, Marisel and Carrion, Iraida (2011) More Similar than Different? Exploring Cultural Models of Depression among Latino Immigrants in Florida. Depression Research and Treatment.
Carrion, Iraida, Castañeda, Heide, Martinez Tyson, Dinorah, and Kline, Nolan (2011) Barriers Impeding Access to Primary Oral Health Care Among Farmworker Families in Central Florida. Social Work in Health Care 50(10): 828-844.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2011) Medical Humanitarianism and Physicians' Organized Efforts to Provide Aid to Unauthorized Migrants in Germany. Human Organization 70(1)1–10.
Castañeda, Heide (2011) Review: Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany. PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
Luque, John S., Castañeda, Heide, Martinez-Tyson, Dinorah, Vargas, Natalie and Meade, Cathy D. (2011) Formative Research on HPV Vaccine Acceptability among Latina Farmworkers. Health Promotion Practice 13(5): 617–625.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2010) Deportation Deferred: ‘Illegality,’ Visibility, and Recognition in Contemporary Germany. In The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz, eds. Pp. 245–261. Durham: Duke University Press.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide, Carrion, Iraida, Kline, Nolan, Martinez Tyson, Dinorah (2010) False Hope: Effects of Social Class and Health Policy on Oral Health Inequalities for Migrant Farmworker Families. Social Science & Medicine 71(11):2028–2037.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2010) Im/migration and Health: Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Propositions for Applied Anthropology. Annals of Anthropological Practice 34(1):6–27.
🔓 Open Access ~ Luque, John S., Castañeda, Heide, Martinez-Tyson, Dinorah, Vargas, Natalie, Proctor, Sara, and Meade, Cathy D. (2010) HPV Awareness among Latina Immigrants and Anglo American Women in the Southern U.S.: Cultural Models of Cervical Cancer Risk Factors and Beliefs. Annals of Anthropological Practice 4(1):84-104.
Castañeda, Heide, Kline, Nolan, and Dickey, Nathaniel (2010) Health Concerns of Migrant Backstretch Workers at Horse Racetracks. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 21(2):489–503.
Castañeda, Heide, Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi, and Muramoto, Myra (2010) Enabling and Sustaining the Activities of Lay Health Influencers: Lessons from a Community-Based Tobacco Cessation Intervention Study. Health Promotion Practice, Volume 11(4):483–492.
🔓 Open Access ~ Yuan, Nicole P., Wind, Steven, Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi, Castañeda, Heide, Carruth, Lauren, and Muramoto, Myra L. (2010) Types of Lay Health Influencers in Tobacco Cessation: A Qualitative Study. American Journal of Health Behavior 34(5):607–617.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2009) Illegality as Risk Factor: A Survey of Unauthorized Migrant Patients in a Berlin Clinic. Social Science Medicine 68(8):1552–1560.
⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2008) Paternity for Sale: Anxieties over “Demographic Theft” and Undocumented Migrant Reproduction in Germany. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(4):340–359.
Castañeda, Heide (2008) “Illegal Migration, Gender and Health Care: Perspectives from Germany and the United States” In Gender and Illegal Migration in Global and Historical Perspective. Marlou J. Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen, and Chris Quispel, eds. Pp. 171–188. Amsterdam: IMISCOE/Amsterdam University Press.
Castañeda, Heide (2007) Undocumented Migrant Workers and Access to Health Services in Germany: Points of Comparison to Israel. In Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context. Sarah S. Willen, ed. Pp. 123–138. Lanham: Lexington Books.

✨ New ~Castañeda, Heide (2026) “The Gendered Work of Diaspora: Moroccan Amazigh Women Navigating Belonging in the United States.” Journal of Amazigh Studies 4(1).

Explores how Amazigh women in the United States experience changing gender roles, identity, and visibility as part of migration and Indigenous life. Shows how these shifts open new opportunities for agency and community while challenging traditional expectations and inequalities.

Castañeda, Heide (2025) “The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas: Are there Effective Points of Intervention in the Humanitarianism-Equity Dilemma? Institutionalization of Civil Society Organisations in the Migrant Health Sector.” European University Institute/Migration Policy Center.

Castañeda, Heide and William Lucas (2025) Migration and Health Behaviors. Handbook of Social Epidemiology, Pp. 161-173 Berlin: De Gruyter.

Escue, Melanie, Castañeda, Heide, and Aranda, Elizabeth (2025) Role of Informal Support Networks in Immigrant Young Adults’ Navigation of Mental Healthcare Services. Qualitative Health Research.

Mou J, LaSalle G, Pflugeisen C, Sherls-Jones J, Castañeda H, Zaragoza G, Smith C, Mays J, Villarreal N. (2025) Practice, Beliefs, and Intent in Influenza Vaccination Among Hispanic Patients During the Pandemic: An Interventional Study. Vaccine 58: 127207.

Castañeda, Heide and Amine Bit (2024) “Do I Really Need to Check that Box?” Ethnoracial Ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(7): 1963-1980.

Castañeda, Heide (2024) Spaces and Challenges of Citizenship. American Ethnologist 51(3): 402-403.

Castañeda, Heide (2024) Struggles and Triumphs: Amazigh Constitutional Claims and Bureaucratic Disentitlement in Morocco. International Law Review

Castañeda, Heide (2024) Tamazgha as Indigeneity-Informed Approach Transforming Scholarship on Borders and Migration. Tamazgha Studies Journal 1(1): 45-54.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Vaquera, Elizabeth, Castañeda, Heide, and Escue, Melanie (2024) Normalized Expendability: Navigating Immigrant Legal Status during a Global Pandemic. American Behavioral Scientist.

🔓 Open Access ~ 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.

Wurtz Heather and Castañeda, Heide (2023) “Migration in Families and Households. In Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration, Edward Elgar Press.

Castañeda, Heide and Seth M. Holmes (2023) The Lived Experience of Stigma among Immigrant Youth. In Stigma Processes in the Context of Migration-Generated Diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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.

🔓 Open Access ~ Aranda, Elizabeth, Vaquera, Elizabeth, Castañeda, Heide, and Girsea Martinez-Rosas. (2022). Undocumented Again? DACA Rescission, Emotions, and Incorporation Outcomes Among Undocumented Young Adults. Social Forces.

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

Castañeda, Heide (2022) Conclusion. In Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy. Berghahn Books.

🔓 Open Access ~ 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.

Tursunova, Zulfiya, Heide Castañeda, David Fraccaro, and Jennifer Marquez-Trejo (2021) The Role of Civil Society in Creating Spaces of Belonging for Refugees and Undocumented Residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis.

Castañeda, Heide. (2021) Migration and Health. In Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness. Routledge.

Castañeda, Heide (2021) Migrant*innen ohne Dokumente. In Handbuch zu Migration und Gesundheit. Hogrefe Verlag.

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.

⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ 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.

⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ Holmes, Seth M, Ernesto Castañeda, Jérémy Geeraert, Heide Castañeda, Ursula Probst, Nina Zeldes, Sarah S. Willen, Yusupha Dibba, Raphael Frankfurter, and Heidi E. Fjeld. (2021) Deservingness: Migration and Health in Social Context. BMJ Global Health.

⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ Logan, Ryan I., and Castañeda, Heide (2020) Addressing Health Disparities in the Rural United States: Advocacy as Caregiving among Community Health Workers and Promotores de Salud. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(24), 9223.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, and Heide Castañeda (2020). Shifting Roles in Families of Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients and Implications for the Transition to Adulthood. Journal of Family Issues 42(9): 2111-2132.

Castañeda, Heide (2020) Review of Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law. Social Forces 99(1): e10.

Castañeda, Heide (2020) Review of Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 25(1): 168-184.

Mason, Katherine A., Sarah S. Willen, Seth M. Holmes, Denise A. Herd, Mark Nichter, Heide Castañeda, and Helena Hansen. (2020).How Do you Build a ‘Culture of Health’? A Critical Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities from Medical Anthropology. Population Health Management 23(6):476-481.

🔓 Open Access ~ 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.

Castañeda, Heide (2019) Review of Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship. American Anthropologist 121(2): 534-535.

Castañeda, Heide (2019) Enfoques Teóricos sobre la Migracion en Transito . In Migración de tránsito por la ruta pacífico: analizando al fenómeno y a sus actores. Brianda Elena Peraza Noriega, ed. Pp. 19-34. Sinaloa, MX.

Kline, Nolan and Castañeda, Heide (2019) Immigration Enforcement Policies and Latino Health. In New and Emerging Issues in Latina/o Health. New York: Springer.

Campbell, Rebecca and Heide Castañeda (2019) School Employees as Health Care Brokers for Multiply-Marginalized Migrant Families Medical Anthropology 38(8): 733-746.

Castañeda, Heide (2018). Stuck in Motion: Simultaneous Mobility and Immobility in Migrant Healthcare along the US/Mexico Border. In Healthcare in Motion: Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access.

Gómez, Sofia and Castañeda, Heide (2018) “Recognize Our Humanity”: Immigrant Youth Voices on Health Care in Arizona’s Restrictive Political Environment:Qualitative Health Research 29(4):498-509.

Castañeda, Heide (2017) Is Coverage Enough? Persistent Health Disparities in Marginalized Latino Border Communities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(12): 2003-2019.

🔓 Open Access ~ Fleuriet, K. Jill and Castañeda, Heide (2017) A Risky Place? Media and the Health Landscape in the (In)secure U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. North American Dialogue 20(2): 32-46.

Castañeda, Heide (2017) Stratification by Immigration Status: Contradictory Exclusion and Inclusion after Health Care Reform. In Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States, pp. 37-58.

Castañeda, Heide, Seth M. Holmes, Annastiina Kallius, and Daniel Monterescu (2016) Anthropology and Human Displacement: Mobilities, Ex/inclusions, and Activism. American Ethnologist.

⭐ Most Cited ~ 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 (2016) Health Care along the US/Mexico Border. In The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology.

Castañeda, Heide (2016) Shifting Discourses and Social Relations: The Production of Knowledge on Migration. Practicing Anthropology 38(1): 38-40.

Castañeda, Heide (2016) Review of The Colonias Reader: Economy, Housing, and Public Health in US-Mexico Border Colonias. In Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

⭐ Most Cited ~ 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.

Castañeda, Heide (2015) Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities and Life along the US/Mexico Border. In Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy. University of Washington Press.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2015) European Mobilities or “Poverty Migration”? Discourses on Roma in Germany. International Migration 53(3): 87-99.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Yarris, Kristin and Castañeda, Heide. 2015. Discourses of Displacement and Deservingness: Interrogating Distinctions between “Economic” and “Forced” Migration. International Migration 53(3): 64-69.

Holmes, Seth, and Castañeda, Heide (2014) Ethnographic Studies. In Migration and Health

Research Methodologies: A Handbook for the Study of Migrant Populations. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Castañeda, Heide (2014) Migrant Male Sex Workers in Germany. In Male Sex Work and Society. New York: Harrington Park Press.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2014) Health Care Access for Latino Mixed-Status Families: Barriers, Strategies, and Implications for Reform. American Behavioral Scientist.

Castañeda, Heide and Arango, James (2014) Health Concerns for Mexican Migrants in Central Florida: Collaborations with the Sending State via Mobile Consulates and Hometown Associations. Practicing Anthropology 36(3):43-47.

Christensen, Janelle J. and Castañeda, Heide (2014) Danger and Dementia: Caregiver Experiences and Shifting Social Roles during a Highly Active Hurricane Season. Journal of Gerontological Social Work 57(8): 825-844.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2013) Structural Vulnerability and Access to Medical Care among Migrant Street-Based Male Sex Workers in Germany. Social Science & Medicine 84:94-101.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2013) Medical Aid as Protest: Acts of Citizenship for Unauthorized Im/migrants and Refugees. Citizenship Studies 17(2):227-240.

Luque, John S., and Castañeda, Heide (2012) Delivery of Mobile Clinic Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: A Review of Practice Models for Community-Academic Partnerships. Journal of Community Health.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2012) “Over-Foreignization” Or " Unused Potential”? A Critical Review Of Migrant Health In Germany And Responses Toward Unauthorized Migration. Social Science & Medicine 74(6): 830-838.

🔓 Open Access ~ Carrion, Iraida V., Nedjat-Haiem, Frances R., Martinez-Tyson, Dinorah and Castañeda, Heide (2012) Advance Care Planning among Colombian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican Women with a Cancer Diagnosis. Supportive Care in Cancer.

Castañeda, Heide (2011) Effects of Transitional Measures Associated with EU Integration on Medical Care Access for Central and Eastern European Migrants in Germany. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 20(2): 68-86.

⭐ Most Cited | 🔓 Open Access ~ Willen, Sarah S., Mulligan, Jessica, and Castañeda, Heide (2011) Take A Stand Commentary: How Can Medical Anthropologists Contribute to Contemporary Conversations on "Illegal" Im/migration and Health? Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25(3) 331–356.

Martinez Tyson, Dinorah, Castañeda, Heide, Porter, Milagro, Quiroz, Marisel and Carrion, Iraida (2011) More Similar than Different? Exploring Cultural Models of Depression among Latino Immigrants in Florida. Depression Research and Treatment.

Carrion, Iraida, Castañeda, Heide, Martinez Tyson, Dinorah, and Kline, Nolan (2011) Barriers Impeding Access to Primary Oral Health Care Among Farmworker Families in Central Florida. Social Work in Health Care 50(10): 828-844.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2011) Medical Humanitarianism and Physicians' Organized Efforts to Provide Aid to Unauthorized Migrants in Germany. Human Organization 70(1)1–10.

Castañeda, Heide (2011) Review: Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany. PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Luque, John S., Castañeda, Heide, Martinez-Tyson, Dinorah, Vargas, Natalie and Meade, Cathy D. (2011) Formative Research on HPV Vaccine Acceptability among Latina Farmworkers. Health Promotion Practice 13(5): 617–625.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide, Carrion, Iraida, Kline, Nolan, Martinez Tyson, Dinorah (2010) False Hope: Effects of Social Class and Health Policy on Oral Health Inequalities for Migrant Farmworker Families. Social Science & Medicine 71(11):2028–2037.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2010) Im/migration and Health: Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Propositions for Applied Anthropology. Annals of Anthropological Practice 34(1):6–27.

Castañeda, Heide, Kline, Nolan, and Dickey, Nathaniel (2010) Health Concerns of Migrant Backstretch Workers at Horse Racetracks. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 21(2):489–503.

Castañeda, Heide, Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi, and Muramoto, Myra (2010) Enabling and Sustaining the Activities of Lay Health Influencers: Lessons from a Community-Based Tobacco Cessation Intervention Study. Health Promotion Practice, Volume 11(4):483–492.

🔓 Open Access ~ Yuan, Nicole P., Wind, Steven, Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi, Castañeda, Heide, Carruth, Lauren, and Muramoto, Myra L. (2010) Types of Lay Health Influencers in Tobacco Cessation: A Qualitative Study. American Journal of Health Behavior 34(5):607–617.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2009) Illegality as Risk Factor: A Survey of Unauthorized Migrant Patients in a Berlin Clinic. Social Science Medicine 68(8):1552–1560.

⭐ Most Cited ~ Castañeda, Heide (2008) Paternity for Sale: Anxieties over “Demographic Theft” and Undocumented Migrant Reproduction in Germany. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(4):340–359.

Castañeda, Heide (2007) Undocumented Migrant Workers and Access to Health Services in Germany: Points of Comparison to Israel. In Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context. Sarah S. Willen, ed. Pp. 123–138. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Castañeda, Heide (2021) Migrantinnen ohne Dokumente. In Handbuch zu Migration und Gesundheit*. Hogrefe Verlag.