Books: 

Kristin E. Yarris and Whitney L. Duncan (Eds.) Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities: Engaged Ethnography. 2024. University of Arizona Press.

Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families.2017. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Articles and Chapters:

Yarris, Kristin. 2022. Narrative Testimony and Political Potentiality: Surviving Family Separation, Advocating for Migrants’ Rights and Well-being. pp. 173-190, In: El-Shaarawi and Larchanché (Eds.) Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy. Berghahn Books.

Humphris, Rachel and Kristin Elizabeth Yarris. 2022. Welcoming Acts: Temporality and Affect among Volunteer Humanitarians in the UK and USA. Migration and Society.

Yarris, Kristin E. 2021. ICE Offices and Immigration Courts: Accompaniment in Zones of Illegality. Human Organization 80(3): 214-223.

Ponting, C., Delgadillo, D., Rivera-Olmedo, N. & Kristin E. Yarris. 2020. A Qualitative Analysis of Gendered Experiences of Schizophrenia in an Outpatient Psychiatric Hospital in Mexico. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation. 9(3): 159-175.

Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth, Brenda Garcia-Millan and Karla Schmidt-Murillo. 2020. Motivations to Help: Local Volunteer Humanitarians in US Refugee Resettlement. Journal of Refugee Studies 33(2): 437-459.

Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth and Carolyn Ponting. 2019. Moral Matters: Schizophrenia and Masculinity in Mexico. Ethos: The Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 47(1): 35-53.

Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth. 2019. Crisis and Caregiving: An Intergenerational Perspective on Aging and Migration. ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.

Ramírez-Stege, Alyssa and Kristin E. Yarris. 2017. Culture in La Clínica: Evaluating the Utility of the Cultural Formulation Interview in a Mexican Outpatient Setting. Transcultural Psychiatry.

Yarris, Kristin E. 2017. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers’ Narratives of Migration as Kin-Work. pp. 61-82. In, Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin-Work. Parin Dossa and Cati Coe (Eds.) New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Yarris, Kristin E. 2016. Grandmothers, Children and Intergenerational Distress in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. pp. 117-134. In, Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives. Brandon Kohrt and Emily Mendenhall (Eds.) New York: Routledge.

Yarris, Kristin E. and Nicolette J. Dent. 2017. Gender, Inequality and Depo-Provera: Constraints on Reproductive Choice in Nicaragua. Global Public Health 12(4): 449-468.

Mendenhall, Emily, Kristin Yarris and Brandon Kohrt. 2016. Utilization of Standardized Mental Health Assessments in Anthropological Research: Possibilities and Pitfalls. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 40(4): 726-745.

Yarris, Kristin E., Stasiun, Jillian, Musigdilok, Visanee, & Win, Cho. 2015. Generation, Displacement and Deservedness among Karen Refugees in California. International Migration 53(3): 111-123.

Yarris, Kristin E. 2014. “Pensando Mucho” (“Thinking too Much”): Embodied Distress among Grandmothers in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 38(3): 473-498. (Awarded the 2015 Stirling Prize by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.)

Yarris, Kristin E. 2014. “Quiero ir y no quiero ir” (I want to go and I don’t want to go): Nicaraguan Children’s Ambivalent Experiences of Transnational Family Life. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 19(2): 284-309.

Yarris, Kristin E. 2011. The Pain of “Thinking too Much”: Dolor de Cerebroand the Embodiment of Social Hardship among Nicaraguan Women. Ethos 39(2): 226-248. (Recipient of the 2009 Condon Prize by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.)