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Immigration

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Abolition

Abolitionist Futures & Intentional Kin-Making

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Immigration, Latinx
Image of a globe and text that reads "2020-2021 Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care Through the Global South

Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care Through the Global South

Humanitarianisms, Immigration
Suitcases stacked against a cream colored wall

Space, Movement, and Translation

16th Century, Digital Humanities, Immigration, Middle East, South Asia
A black and white photo of a man holding a sign written in Dutch that reads Refugees Welcome in Enschede

Immigration, Toleration, and Human Rights

Human Rights, Immigration
Protest by detained African asylum seekers in Holot detention facility in Israel, 2014.

Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World

21st Century, Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
A man walks alongside a wall that has writing on it reading justice and no border in Spanish.

Migration and the Spaces of Sanctuary

Immigration, Race, Social Justice
Image of silken banner/flag with golden fringe with assorted images relating to experiences of immigration from Colombia to US and diasporic Colombian life.

U.S. Colombianidades from the Margins: Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and Regionalism in the Diaspora

Immigration, Interdisciplinary Research, Latinx
Three surveillance cameras atop barbed wire and spiked poles

Digital Border Technologies and Media

Human Rights, Immigration, Media Studies, Science & Technology Studies, Visual Culture

Articles

Maral Atayeva (top left), Jessica Bachman (top right), Katia Chaterji (bottom left), and Yara Musad (bottom right)

Perspectives from Two International Students at Shoreline Community College

Community Colleges, Race, COVID-19, Immigration
Megan Ward

Megan Ward Receives Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Research on National Security, Narco-Culture, and Borderland Religions

Immigration, Religion, Political Science
Sinan Antoon

Spring Mellon Sawyer Seminar Launches Apr. 1 with Sinan Antoon

Humanitarianisms, Globalization, Palestine, Postcolonialism, Immigration
Jenna Grant

Jenna Grant Awarded Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Seed Grant

Anthropology, Public Scholarship, Immigration, Awards
Sareeta Amrute

Sareeta Amrute Awarded for Ethnography of Indian IT Workers in Berlin

Awards, Anthropology, Race, Immigration

Katz Lectures

Abderrahmane Sissako

Translating African Worlds: A Conversation with Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako

Africa Studies, Globalization, Postcolonialism, Immigration, Visual Culture
Victoria Lawson

A Crisis of Care and a Crisis of Borders: Towards Caring Citizenship

Feminisms, Globalization, Immigration

People

Portrait of Megan Ybarra

Megan Ybarra (she/her/hers)

Megan Ybarra is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow.

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Environment, Immigration, Latinx, Prison Studies, Public Scholarship, Race, Social Justice
Portrait of José I. Fusté

José I. Fusté (he/him/his)

José I. Fusté received his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego in 2012.

American Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Globalization, Immigration, Latin America, Latinx, Music
Portrait of Roneva Keel

Roneva Keel (she/her/hers)

My research focuses on migrant agricultural labor in the context of U.S. expansion. My dissertation, "Mobilizing Empire: Race, Sugar, and U.S. Colonialism across the Pacific, 1898-1934," studies the making of imperial subjects in and through the movements of labor and capital in the U.S.

20th Century, Colonialism, Ethnicity, History, Immigration
Ayda smiling at the camera in a beige blazer and white shirt, curly hair pulled halfway back and a gray background

Ayda Apa Pomeshikov (she/her/hers)

Ayda's research interests center around forced migration studies, critical humanitarian studies, and anthropology of religion. Ayda has currently finalized her field research in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Current Events, Digital Humanities, Humanitarianisms, Identity and Culture, Immigration, Middle East, Peace, Violence, and Security, Religion, Social Justice
Portrait of Linh Thủy Nguyễn wearing an orange shirt.

Linh Thủy Nguyễn (she/her/hers)

Linh Thuy Nguyễn specializes in Asian American and Southeast Asian American cultural studies, immigration and refugee studies and US militarism and race. She completed her PhD at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Ethnic Studies.

Asian American, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Immigration
Portrait of Alina Méndez.

Alina Méndez (she/her/hers/ella)

Alina R. Méndez is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow.

Chicanx, Immigration, Latin America, Latinx, Race
Sonia De La Cruz looks to the right while standing behind a camera on a tripod.

Sonia De La Cruz (she/her/hers/ella)

Sonia De La Cruz is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Media Production at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Her scholarship centers on media for social justice, international and development communication, and critical media practice.

Digital Humanities, Immigration, Latinx
Portrait of Michael Blake wearing a suit and sitting outside.

Michael Blake (he/him/his)

Ethics, Immigration