Amy Risley, Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies, has published several studies of immigration policy and the treatment of child migrants in the United States. She published "Doing Harm Was the Point" in the International Journal of Children’s Rights. A second article titled “The ‘Keys to the Kingdom:’ Interest Groups, Ideologues, and Immigration Policy” was published in Social Justice.
In addition, Risley contributed a chapter on migrants’ rights to a forthcoming volume titled Children’s Rights in Crisis: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (edited by Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme Jr.). The book investigates ongoing efforts to realize the rights promised by the Convention on the Rights of the Child three decades since its inception.
According to Risley, each of these studies calls for policies that respect the rights and dignity of all people –and especially children.