Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin …
Read More >By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border …
Read More >By Ruben J. Garcia, author of Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice Raising the federal minimum wage is not a front burner issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign. …
Read More >By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019 By Abigail Leslie Andrews, author of Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the …
Read More >In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio on dispelling myths about immigration and the border, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is asked about President Trump’s case for the border wall and whether Trump’s characterization of immigrants …
Read More >This guest post is published as part of our Scholar-Activist series related to the American Sociological Association conference from August 11 – 14 in Philadelphia. #ASA18 #ScholarActivist By Jean Beaman, author of Citizen Outsider: Children …
Read More >This piece, which was originally published on July 2, 2018, is reposted with permission from the author. By David Bacon, author of In the Fields of the North / En los campos …
Read More >What are the social consequences of anti-immigrant rhetoric? Do racist words translate into violence against immigrants? Does this rhetoric discourage immigrants from participating in civic life, interacting with law enforcement, or obtaining needed …
Read More >By Joanna Dreby, author of Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families I share in the collective horror at reports about the Trump Administration’s newest administrative policy at the U.S. Mexican border: …
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