Recent Updates

2024

September 2024

• Border Criminologies Annual Workshop hosted by the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex. Online/in-person. Learn more and Register here.

June 2024

• June 10-12, 2024: Presenting at the 2024 Summer Institute on Migration Research Methods hosted by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley.
• June 21, 2024: Presented at Poynter Institute’s training for immigration reporters.
• June 21, 2024: Presented at Columbia University’s Archives as Data: An Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities hosted by the History Lab. More information here.

March 2024

• March 2-3, 2024: Crimmigration conference at Lewis & Clark Law School. The conference schedule is available online here.
• March 5, 2024: Speaking at panel event “Who Has the Right to Free Speech? Immigration, Civil Liberty, and Freedom of Expression” at Cornell University. Event is in-person only. More information here.
• March 19, 2024 (7:00 PM): Discussant at John Washington’s Book Event for “The Case for Open Borders” at Red Emma’s in Baltimore. Event information here. Order the book.
• March 20, 2024: “Tracking the Deportation State: Public Records Requests, Data Analysis, and Research on Immigration Enforcement” at Barnard College in New York City. More information and registration here.

January 2024

• January 10-12, 2024: Presenting at “Developing Innovative Research Approaches to Address the Needs of People on the Move” workshop at Barnard College in New York City.

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)