By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson
Low-wage labor in the United States is characterized by egregiously low minimum wage standards, insufficient health and safety protections, and a civil rights regime that does little to address structural racism.
Read More >by Lynn Stephen and Laura Velasco-Ortiz, guest editors of the special issue In a special issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, called “Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States,” we look …
Read More >By Nicole Constable, author of Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations Since the 1990s, I have done field research in Hong Kong among Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers and activists, most …
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 >UC Press is pleased to announce that Departures in Critical Qualitative Research’s editor Devika Chawla’s inaugural double special issue, Migrations/Borders and Margins, has been selected as the winner of the National Communication …
Read More >This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 10-13. #ASA19 By Abigail Leslie Andrews, author of Undocumented …
Read More >“I was trying to focus attention on the ongoing crises of displacement the world is witnessing”
Read More >by Greg Beckett, author of There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince On March 31, 2019, a small twin-engine outboard boat full of Haitian migrants capsized off the …
Read More >This guest post is published around the Association for Asian Studies conference in Denver, occurring March 21-24, 2019. #AAS2019 by Geoff Childs, co-author of From a Trickle to a Torrent: Education, Migration, and Social Change in …
Read More >“We need to convert a dread of the unfamiliar ‘Other’ into empathy, solidarity, and a democratizing desire for cultural difference.” — Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, editor of Humanitarianism and Mass Migration: Confronting the World …
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