I currently have three research projects going. My longstanding interest in the social-psychological aspects of education, work, and the life course is reflected in two of these projects. The first is a study of students who return to college late in the life course, examining how they define and react to their educational experiences as a function of their differential occupational and family experiences. The second is a study of the factors affecting the resiliency of middle-school and high-school students in economically disadvantaged areas of Arizona. One of the factors I focus on in this study is work experience, looking at its positive and negative effects on the students. We are continuing to collect data from different school districts on these topics. Finally, I have recently begun a project studying the international adoption of Chinese girls who have been abandoned as a result of the one-child policy. Since these girls are being adopted by families in thirteen nations, I see this as a unique form of diaspora and have made this argument in a paper with Zeynep Ozgen.