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Cecilia Menjivar

@cecimenjivar.bsky.social
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Sociologist at UCLA. I study immigration, gender-based violence, bureaucracies, gender, state power.

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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Congratulations to Professors Young and Calarco and all of us @asanews.bsky.social. Looking forward to their leadership!
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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Amazing first edition of El Faro’s “Central America Monthly,” packed full of superb reporting, the now-notorious interviews with El Sal gang leaders (English subtitles), a podcast episode, a deep dive into the Guatemalan genocide trial, and much much more. 👇👇
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Ruth López, leading human rights defender, @cristosal.bsky.social still imprisoned ⁦in El Salvador www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
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Human rights activist arrested in El Salvador amidst crackdown on dissent
Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her colleague Noah Bullock from the human rights organization Cristosal about the case.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Remember last month, when you didn’t have to worry about the safety of the US nuclear arsenal? Or when you could get on a plane pretty sure you'd survive the flight? Those were the days. My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
ASA membership comes with three informative e-newsletters, providing an efficient way to keep up to date on the discipline and all things ASA. Join or renew by 11:59 pm ET Feb. 27 for a chance to win one of five $100 VISA gift cards. bit.ly/Winter25Drive
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 22/02/2025
I talked to USA Today this week for an important story: "If the data was out there and transparent, it would undermine their story," said Austin Kocher, a research professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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White House broadcasts immigration raids, but are arrests really up?
Despite images of a nationwide sweep, there is little evidence so far that ICE is arresting, detaining or deporting many more people than usual.
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 19/02/2025
New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Mary Romero, @andrewjperrin.bsky.social, A. Spencer-Blume, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election
The front page of Contexts magazine's Winter 2025 Special Section: Election Reflections--And What Comes Next, by Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn. The image is black, white, and red, with images of flags, check marks, and circles, and the text reads: Just before the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, we asked a group of sociologists--all esteemed researchers from different subfields of our discipline--to think, observe, and write about America's big decision. Here, we present a special, and very timely, section of the magazine: a curated collection of essays that track the pulse of our democracy.
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𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 @absjournal.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Volume 68 Issue 12, November 2024 Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social Some of the articles are available Open Access journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12
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American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 68, Number 12, Nov 01, 2024
Table of contents for American Behavioral Scientist, 68, 12, Nov 01, 2024
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Immigrant workers have cleaned & rebuilt after many U.S. disasters. Today, they're at work bringing L.A. out from the ashes, volunteering their labor, 12 hrs/day, cleaning streets & parks in Pasadena & building community #thankyoudaylaborers @ndlon.bsky.social www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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As fires rage, day laborers volunteer to clean up Pasadena streets
The Pasadena Community Job Center is a gathering spot for day laborers. As fires burned across the region, workers and staff launched a fire relief brigade.
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Wonderful news!! Temporary Protected Status designations which were set to expire in the next few months: El Salvador, Venezuela, Ukraine, Sudan. This means 18 additional months of protection for roughly 850,000 people!! What about Honduras??
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"Immigrants will be the ones bringing Los Angeles back from the ashes. Without them, the city will struggle to recover." wapo.st/4gG1Xgd
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Opinion | Who will rebuild Los Angeles? Immigrants.
And many of them will be doing it under threat of family separation.
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
TPS recipients & allies are in a hunger strike in Washington DC calling on the @POTUS Biden admin. to renew TPS for El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua. Biden can protect these long-term residents from deportation #TPSJustice @TPS_Alliance
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Well, that was… fun. Seriously though, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been there and to help make the case for why we should pass a path to permanent legal status rather than carry out self-destructive mass deportations.
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Important primer on expedited removal by the @immcouncil.bsky.social explaining the process by which low-level immigration officers can summarily remove certain noncitizens without a hearing. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/defaul...
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Lukas Schmid @lukasschmid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
And the forum in which it is critically discussed by Antje Ellermann, @adamhosein.bsky.social and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social: migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
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Unauthorized residence - Migration Policy Centre
Unauthorized residence
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Response from Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to threats of tariffs for migration control. Using US data, she shows that Mexico already has an extensive system of control in place. Also notes the gun traffic from US to Mexico behind the rise of violence in Mexico x.com/i/status/186...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 26/11/2024
Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024) Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...
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Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. Plus: sign up for the new Immigration Book Club online.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
NEW FROM ME: The government will do things that hurt people. But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him. Here’s a start. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations
How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/11/2024
I’ve been asked a few times recently, so let me say this simply: Republicans move immigration policy to the right, then Democrats normalize/systemitize those changes, laying the groundwork for Republicans to move the needle further to the right. 🔄 There is no leftward movement.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/11/2024
LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape. The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v...
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LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape
The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials, a day after President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would use military asset...
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𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 @absjournal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
ABS Board Member and guest co-editor of the November 2024 double issue, The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, discussed autocracy in an interview in September 2024.
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Q&A: Cecilia Menjívar on authoritarian tactics in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign
The UCLA sociologist discusses how to think critically about the threat of autocracy.
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Today we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests and their two lay workers at the Catholic University (UCA) in El Salvador. They were martyred for speaking on behalf of the poor and oppressed.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 13/11/2024
The Biden administration massively expanded the electronic monitoring of immigrants, restricted access to asylum, left 287(g) in place, and increased deportations. So yes, the Trump administration does have “what they need” to carry out mass deportations.
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Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The 2024 Nobel in Economics: "The laureates have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a much deeper understanding of why countries fail or succeed.” Sociologists: 🙄 The Nobel Prize in Economics should go to sociologists at least once in a while!!
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 13/11/2024
3,716,106 deportation cases are pending in immigration courts across the country. About a third of them (and maybe many more) are asylum cases, where the individual is seeking humanitarian protection. As Attorney General, Matt Gaetz's decisions could shape their case outcomes.
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