Recent Updates (All)

2023

November 2023

• November 17, 2023: Overcoming Institutional Closure in Immigration Research: How TRAC Uses Public Records Requests to Study the Deportation State. At the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. (More info + registration.) Watch the recorded presentation on YouTube.

October 2023

• October 6-7, 2023: Participating in Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference at UCLA.
• October 11-13, 2023: Presenting at Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference in Washington, D.C.

September 2023

• Presented paper at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law titled “FOIA as Method: Mapping the Digital Architectures of the Immigration State.”

July 2023

• July, 2023: Participated in international workshop on immigration data at the new Haven Asylum Lab in Canada.

June 2023

• Published new article in Societies titled “Glitches in the Digitization of Asylum: How CBP One Turns Migrants’ Smartphones into Mobile Borders.” (No paywall.) See my write-up on Substack here.
• June 1-4, 2023: Law and Society Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a session titled “Legal Violence, Precarity, and Migrant Youth” with Laila Hlass, Rachel Davidson, Chiara Galli, Valeria Gomez, and Rebecca Hamlin as discussant. Learn more about the conference here.
• June 15 & 16, 2023: Speaking at Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference at George Washington University. Join me at the panel on Teaching & Advocacy on Friday morning. Register or learn more here.

May 2023

• May 18-19, 2023: Panel on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) at the Transparency Conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the American Immigration Council.

April 2023

• April 13, 2023: Invited research presentation on electronic monitoring of migrants at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
• April 13-15, 2023: Invited research presentation on asylum at the International Conference on Forced Migration at UCLA.
• April 27-28, 2023: Spoke at the Annual Latino Public Affairs Forum hosted by the Center for Latin American & Latino Studies at American University where I recently started as a research fellow. Learn more about the event here.

March 2023

• Political Geography Pre-Conference in Boulder, Colorado, and American Association of Geographpy Conference in Denver, Colorado.
• Joined the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and Immigration Hub at American University as a Research Fellow. (Announcement here.)

February 2023

• Speaking at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. on February 17, 2023. (details + registration)

January 2023

• American Bar Association panel discussion on ICE’s electronic monitoring program (virtual), January 25, 2023. See the video of the panel discussion here.
• Updated this website to new design and backend (from Squarespace to Blot.im).
• Launched Immigration History Calendar (immigrationhistorycalendar.com) (January 2023)

2022

Fall 2022

• Conducted two months of fieldwork along the US-Mexico border (read about it on Substack).
• Launched Law & Space Journal (Fall 2022)