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Gleeson’s research includes several collaborative projects, regarding the role of the Mexican Consulate in protecting the rights of immigrant workers (with Xóchitl Bada), the local implementation of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program (with Els de Graauw), and the impacts of temporary legal status on immigrant workers (with Kate Grifftih). She earned her PhD in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. Gleeson joined the faculty of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in the fall of 2014, after six years on the faculty of the Latin American & Latino studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her books include Building Citizenship From Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency (Routleges, 2017, edited with Marcel Paret), Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (University of California Press, 2016), The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants (Routledge, 2014, edited with John Park), and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Cornell University Press, 2012).