
Iris Zhang
Ph.D. Student in Sociology, admitted Autumn 2018
All Publications
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The Reign of Racialized Residential Sorting: Gentrification and Residential Mobility in the Twenty-First Century
CITY & COMMUNITY
2024
View details for DOI 10.1177/15356841241276390
View details for Web of Science ID 001333975500001
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Accessing the right to vote among system-impacted people
PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PENOLOGY
2024; 26 (4): 711-731
View details for DOI 10.1177/14624745241230199
View details for Web of Science ID 001303456500004
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Accessing the Right to Vote Among System-Impacted People.
Punishment & society
2024; 26 (4): 711-731
Abstract
Recent efforts to dismantle felon disenfranchisement regimes have the potential to substantially expand electoral eligibility among people with criminal records; however, even among those with criminal legal histories who are eligible to vote, voting rates are often extremely low. Analyzing interview, focus group, and text message conversations among a multi-state sample around the November 2022 election, we identify and describe how administrative barriers to voting-including a lack of understanding about the voting process, confusion about legal eligibility, and perceived risks of rearrest of voting while ineligible-pose an access to justice issue among system-impacted people. These barriers are amplified by government mistrust, specifically the perception that barriers are intentionally constructed to suppress voting, and they are potentially mitigated by outreach by community organizations that are viewed as credible. The findings emphasize that legislative reforms repealing disenfranchisement laws must be accompanied by on-the-ground efforts to address administrative burdens to broaden access to the franchise.
View details for DOI 10.1177/14624745241230199
View details for PubMedID 40125423
View details for PubMedCentralID PMC11928158
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The Limits of Preclearance Municipal Annexations Before and After Shelby County v. Holder
DU BOIS REVIEW-SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON RACE
2023
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1742058X23000152
View details for Web of Science ID 001100094200001
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Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods
URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW
2023
View details for DOI 10.1177/10780874231169921
View details for Web of Science ID 000973338000001