Prior Research
Assessing role of socialization agents & contexts in influencing the educational and caregiving experiences of Latinx immigrant families.
Publications: Peer-reviewed
Cook, K.D., Ferreira van Leer, K., & Lombardi, C. M. (2023). Exploring predictors and outcomes of racial/ethnic match between children and providers in Early Head Start. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 62(1), 275-286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.09.002
Cook, K.D., Ferreira van Leer, K., Gandhi, J., Ayala, C. & Kuh, L.P. (2022). Managing disruptions in early education and care: Lessons from COVID-19. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01430-2
Ferreira van Leer, K. (2018). Early childhood education decision-making among Latino foreign-born parents in the United States: A mixed methods study. (Publication No. 10928211) [Doctoral dissertation, Boston College]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Publications: Reports
Cook, K.D., Ferreira van Leer, K., Gandhi, J., & Ayala, C. (2022). Somerville Child Care Choices (CCC) Study: COVID Findings Brief Spring 2022. Brief prepared in partnership with Somerville Public Schools and the Somerville Partnership for Young Children.
Cook, K.D., Ferreira van Leer, K., Gandhi, J., Stewart O’Brien, C., Miller, A., & Ayala, C. (2021). Somerville Child Care Choices (CCC) Study: Findings Report: Fall 2021. Report prepared in partnership with Somerville Public Schools and the Somerville Partnership for Young Children.
Chen, Y., Ferreira van Leer, K., & Guzman, L. (2021). Many Latino and Black households made costly work adjustments in Spring 2021 to accommodate COVID-related child care disruptions. [Data Snapshot]. Bethesda, MD: National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families.
Ferreira van Leer, K., Crosby, D., & Mendez, J. (2021). Disruptions to child care arrangements and work schedules for low-income Hispanic families are common and costly. Report 2021-01. Bethesda, MD: National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families.
Lykes, M. B., Alvarez, E. Bianco, M. E., Bravo, D., Fatty, F., Ferreira, K., Glaze, S., Mkoshi, J., Palencia, A., Rubio, D., Sosrodjojo, E., & Suliman G. (2015). Migrant families and language: “…The person who speaks two language has double value". Boston: Center for Human Rights & International Justice.
Gaining an understanding of the impact of international & national policies on migrant families
Publications: Peer-reviewed
Távara-Vasquez, G., Sibley, E., Lykes, M. B., & Ferreira van Leer, K. (2020). Maya K’iche’ families and intergenerational migration within and across borders: An exploratory mixed-methods study. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 6(1), 52-73.
Publications: Policy Statements & Reports
Moulton, A., Soqo, S., & Ferreira, K. (2017). Community-led, human rights-based solutions to climate-forced displacement: A guide for funders. Cambridge: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC).
Moulton, A., Leach, J. & Ferreira, K. (2016). Waiting for Refuge: Benefits and challenges of central american minors in-country refugee processing program (CAM). Cambridge: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC).
Chicco, J., Esparza, P., Lykes, M.B., Balcazar, F.E., & Ferreira, K. (2015). Policy Statement on the Incarceration of Undocumented Migrant Families. American Journal of Community Psychology, 57: 255-263. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12017
Exploring critical consciousness & the role of individual and collective resistance to oppression
Publications: Peer-reviewed
Ferreira van Leer, K.. McGillen, G., Ashby, K., Bhattacharyya, S., Simmons, C. (2021). When students listen: A co-constructed autoethnography graduate student activists eradicating racism in higher education. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 12(3), 1-23. https://www.gjcpp.org/en/article.php?issue=40&article=246
Publications: Book Chapters
Suzuki, S., Johnson, S. K., & Ferreira van Leer, K. (2023). Situating critical consciousness within the developmental system: Insights from the Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory. In L. Rapa & E. Godfrey (Eds.), Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement. Cambridge University Press.
Publications: Reports
Hill, C., & Ferreira, K. (2015). Transforming relationships to gain full humanity: A participatory evaluation of the Network of Immigrant & African American Solidarity. Boston: Network of Immigrant & African American Solidarity.