Carol Cleaveland
Contributor
Carol Cleaveland is an Associate Professor of Social Work at George Mason University and coauthor of Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum. She has been researching Latino immigration since 2004, when she began working with Mexican day laborers in Freehold, N.J., to understand how they negotiated police harassment and anti-immigrant ordinances. Since 2013, her work has focused on Latinas from Central America and immigration-related trauma, including experiences in human smuggling. Cleaveland also provides pro bono psychosocial assessments for Central American immigrants in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., area for USCIS court hearings.
