Her major areas of research are family-school relations, immigrant parent involvement, and narrative analysis. Some of her specific lines of inquiry include: anti-deficit perspectives in family-school relations; definitions of parental involvement by diverse populations; ideologies of motherhood and social policy; counter narratives; manifestations of agency and structure in personal narratives; immigrant women, language acquisition and negotiation of identities; and qualitative research in multilingual contexts. Her book, Immigration, Motherhood and Parental Involvement: Narratives of Communal Agency in the Face of Power Asymmetry, based on the findings of a qualitative case study, was published in January 2017.