Refereed Journal Articles

Ferris, A., Bervik, A., Power, K., & Cnaan, R. (2025). Fragmented Integration: Social Welfare and Differential Inclusion Among Forced Migrants in the U.S. Journal of Policy Practice and Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42972-025-00135-1

Bervik, A., & Ferris, A. (2024). An Ideology of Deserving: A Historical Analysis of United States Immigration Policies Governing Forced Migration and Social Welfare. International Journal of Social Welfare. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12706

Ferris, A., Marrese, T., Cnaan, R., Choi, D., & Handy, F. (2024). Who Volunteers at Refugee and Immigrant Nonprofits? Results from Two Studies. Nonprofit Policy Forum. doi: 10.1515/npf-2023-0066

Choi, D., Ferris, A., Marrese, T., Cnaan, R., & Handy, F. (2023). The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers and Donors in the US. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, and Governance. 48(3). 340-354. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2023.2232844

Marrese, T., Cnaan, R., & Handy, F., Choi, D., Ferris, A. (2025). Volunteering Under Crisis: How Resource Perceptions Relate to Formal and Informal Civic Participation Before and During COVID-19. Nonprofit Policy Forum. doi: 10.1515/npf-2024-0051

 Choi, D., Marrese, T., Ferris, A., Cnaan, R., & Handy, F. (2025). Revisiting the Religiosity and Generosity Relationship in the U.S.: Takeaways from the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Compass. 72(4). doi: 10.1177/00377686251387999

Journal Articles in Submission or Preparation

 Bervik, A., Ferris, A., & Ziembo, C. Different Pathways, Different Results? A Scoping Review Examining Integration Outcomes for Privately Sponsored and Government-Assisted Refugees (Revise and Resubmit).

Nichols, B. & Ferris, A. Guaranteed Income and the San Diego-Tijuana Border (in preparation).

Ferris, A. Syrian Life Worlds: A Phenomenological Study of Forced Displacement Experience (in preparation).

Ferris, A. Liminality and Precarious Realities: A Theoretical Framework for Social Work Practice and Research with Forcibly Displaced People (in preparation).

Ferris, A. Family Separation and Syrian Transnational Families: An Analysis of the Syrian Refugee and Immigrant Diaspora in the US (in preparation).

Research Reports

 Cnaan, R.A., Handy, F., Marrese, T., Choi, D. Y., and Ferris, A. 2022. Generosity Trends and Impacts: Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA.