Select Publications

A selection of peer-reviewed publications on agency, well-being, sociocultural theory, and human development. For a complete list, please see my CV.

Agency, Well-Being & Immigrant Experience

2024 — Offidani-Bertrand, C. & Ellis, B.D. From lost to leading: How Undocumented Student Resource Centers are transforming student lives. Culture & Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X241254449

2023 — Ellis, B.D. Fostering existential well-being: Mobility, dwelling, and Undocumented Student Resource Centers in California. Mobilities, 18(4), 651–655. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2213405

2022 — Ellis, B.D., Offidani-Bertrand, C., & Ferrera, M. Examining the racialized psychosocial development of migrant “illegality” across immigrant groups in the United States. Journal of Adolescent Research, 38(3), 528–561. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F07435584211064195

2021 — Ellis, B.D. The psychology of migrant “illegality”: A general theory. Law & Social Inquiry, 46(4), 1236–1271. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2021.13

2019 — Ellis, B.D., Gonzales, R., & Rendón Garcia, S. The power of inclusion: Theorizing “abjectivity” and agency under DACA. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 19(3), 161–172. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708618817880 ◆ Related paper received the Erin Phelps Award, 2019

2018 — Gonzales, R., Ellis, B.D., Rendón-Garcia, S., & Brant, K. (Un)Authorized transitions: Illegality, DACA, and the life course. Research in Human Development, 15, 345–358. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2018.1502543 ◆ Erin Phelps Award — Best article in Research in Human Development, 2017–2019

2017 — Ellis, B.D. & Stam, H. Cycles of deportability: Threats, fears, and the agency of Polish “irregular” migrants in Canada. Migration Studies, 6(3), 321–344. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnx049

Sociocultural Theory & Self

2018 — Ellis, B.D. & Bhatia, S. Cultural psychology for a new era of citizenship politics. Culture & Psychology, 25(2), 220–240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X18808760

2015 — Ellis, B.D. & Stam, H. Crisis? What crisis? Cross-cultural psychology’s appropriation of cultural psychology. Culture & Psychology, 21(3), 293–317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X15601198

2010 — Ellis, B.D. & Stam, H. Addressing the other in dialogue: Ricoeur and the ethical dimensions of the dialogical self. Theory & Psychology, 20(3), 420–435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354310364280

Well-Being & Mental Health

2022 — Ayón, C., Ellis, B.D., Hagan, M., Enriquez, L., & Offidani-Bertrand, C. Mental health help-seeking among undocumented college students. Journal of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000573

2021 — Enriquez, L., Chavarria, K., Rodriguez, V.E., Ayón, C., Ellis, B.D., et al. Toward a nuanced and contextualized understanding of undocumented college students. Journal of Latinos and Education, 20(3), 215–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2021.1952076