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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Check out this free, online book event tomorrow (August 13) hosted by @iehs.bsky.social

Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The CBP Home app urges migrants to self-deport. However, given the external pressures that migrants face in their day-to-day lives, many self-deportations are not completely voluntary. MiSC scholar Adam Goodman's work on self-deportations provides us with a lens to see through these fallacies. 🧵⬇️

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

How has a SCOTUS case from the 1800's profoundly effected the way deportation is viewed today?

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A new series rolling out on publicbooks.org, "Fascism's Building Blocks," was commissioned by MiSC members @naomipaik.bsky.social and @catherinesramirez.bsky.social and examines the laws that paved the way for today's emergent fascism. Check it out! www.publicbooks.org/tag/fascisms...

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

On April 12, 2026, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt died in ICE custody. How can we use the works of MiSC scholars such as @austinkocher.com to contextualize this death, the deaths of the sixteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2026, and the criminalization of migration? 🧵

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

As Paik argues, "Borders are violence" to migrants and the land alike (Paik, "Sanctuary for None," 94).

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

At the same time, border patrol efforts also scar the desert. Border wall construction requires new roads to be built. "Security" efforts necessitate the use of bulldozers and explosives to clear the land, destroying trees, cacti, animals, and water sources.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Despite deterrence efforts, migrants continue to cross through the Sonoran Desert. In doing so, they pollute the dessert. Migrants carve new paths to avoid detection from border patrol agents. They discard unnecessary objects that might slow them down such as old food containers.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Despite being one of the primary causes of pollutants in the Sonoran Desert, the US government recasts itself as guardians of the land, setting aside swaths of the dessert as protected environmental sanctuaries such as Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The Sonoran Desert has taken on multiple meanings for the US state. Starting in 1941, the US began using the land for military training. They treated the dessert as a "sacrifice zone." The seemingly "vacant land" was polluted by the US state, exchanging the health of the land for national projects.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Scholar and author Tanya Golash-Boza, writing in CounterPunch, breaks down what's really happening: federal immigration agencies are doing street-level policing with less accountability than local cops. No body cams, no civilian oversight, and no real consequences when things go wrong.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@elliottyoung.bsky.social of Lewis & Clark College and @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social of Emerson College examined conditions in each of these countries through fieldwork, interviews, & rigorous research to give immigration courts the country conditions information they need to make informed decisions.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

In 1934, a group of undocumented Russian refugees gained legal status in the U.S.—during the Great Depression. How did that happen? MiSC scholar Deborah Kang ( @kangborderlaw.bsky.social ) explores this case in "Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States." 👇 🧵

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Make sure you read MiSC scholar Mae Ngai's full article, "The End of Asylum," published by @nybooks to get the full picture. drive.google.com/file/d/1CnsS...

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

👣 The End of Asylum? 🧵 MiSC Scholar Mae Ngai forces us to reckon with the collapse of asylum under the second Trump administration and its deep historical roots in her latest, must-read article for @nybooks.com. drive.google.com/file/d/1CnsS...

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨 NEW BULLETIN ALERT! 🚨 The Migration & Asylum Lab, led by MiSC's @elliottyoung.bsky.social, releases "Pushed to the Margins: Disability Life in Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador." The bulletin documents systemic abuse of people with disabilities in these five nations.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Women's Refugee Commission (@wrcommission.bsky.social) has launched a new tool to address this information gap: the Detention Pregnancy Tracker. It's designed to collect confidential, real-time reports from people who have come into contact with detained pregnant, postpartum, or lactating women.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🚨There is a hidden issue in US immigration detention: the treatment of pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women. 🚨 Despite ICE's own policies against detaining these individuals, reports of medical neglect, miscarriages, and nutritional deprivation have been documented.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A new bulletin from the Migration & Asylum Lab, edited by @elliottyoung.bsky.social, reveals a critical reality: legal reforms often don't translate to safety for LGBTQ+ individuals. "Beyond Reform: LGBTQ+ Life in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Cuba," is a must-read. 🧵👇

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🇪🇨 What are the country conditions like in Ecuador? ⚖️ What historical role has corruption and economic instability played throughout the nation's development? A thread🧵⤵️

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

On Thursday, Aug 21st @ 1pm EST, MiSC scholar @austinkocher.com will host a Webinar conversation with fellow scholar @elliottyoung.bsky.social, along with Seraya Talbott-Carey, for a conversation on their new 2025 country conditions reports on Ecuador and Nicaragua. 🌎

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

In her latest book, Kaysha chronicles the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians, tracing how they built diasporic communities in both Panama and the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Welcome, Kaysha! 🎉

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

As an Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean & Hemispheric Transnationalisms at Rutgers University, Kaysha’s scholarship explores diaspora communities and examines the multi-generational impact of xenophobia and race-based discrimination.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Kaysha Corinealdi ( @kcorinealdi.bsky.social ‬) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on the histories of migration and citizenship in the Americas.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

In his most recent publication, Willie examines the rise of Haiti’s totalitarian carceral state during the twentieth century through the lens of US empire. Welcome, Willie! 🎉

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Willie Mack ( @wmack3212.bsky.social ) is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

1/12 🧵 As migration scholars, we're honored to highlight @naomipaik.bsky.social's timely "Sanctuary for All," published by @oxunipress.bsky.social for @icahdq.bsky.social. She argues: with Project 2025 threats, expansive sanctuary is crucial for all. ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/18/2/144/8156006?guestAccessKey=c1a70d7d-2c76-48bf-b436-99bc31cb6547

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

He plans on converting his dissertation, "Reclaiming The Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1936-1966," into a book. It examines the anti-communist, Catholic, & nationalist Mexican Unión Nacional Sinarquista within the context of the US during WWII. Welcome, Nathan! 🎉

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🚨New Member Alert! 🚨 MiSC is excited to announce its newest member, Nathan Ellstrand (@nellstra.bsky.social).

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

MiSC vehemently rejects the war on immigrants and peaceful protestors in Los Angeles. What we're witnessing is worsening anti-immigrant policies, with intensified enforcement. Read MiSC's full statement below: sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...

https://sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

📣 Mark your calendars! 📣 MiSC scholar Marla Ramírez's latest book, "Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation," will be released this October. This powerful book delves into a grim period of forcible removal 🧵👇

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674295940

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Per @hidehirota.bsky.social, "criticism of labor importation acquired new phrases by the turn of the 20th C. Opponents of contract workers denounced their immigration induced or assisted by employers & transportation companies working with them as 'artificial or 'unnatural' immigration."

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Ximena's most recent poems, "Edges of Self and City," "Jazz, or the Ways of Our Time Feel Trio", & "Sea Broken" were published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Welcome, Ximena! 🎉

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 New Member Alert! 🚨 MiSC is excited to announce its newest member, Ximena Keogh Serrano. An Assistant Professor of World Languages & Cultures at Pacific University, Ximena is also a poet and interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores migration and transnationalism.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Trump’s rhetoric and policy actions alike are dramatic. But heated political conversation about immigration, laced with issues of race and class, is nothing new in the United States."

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Llana's most recent article, "Anti-Black Racism and the Nativist State," examines how policies and practices to exclude, detain, and repatriate immigrants often first targeted Black people. experts.umn.edu/en/publicati...

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Her first book, "Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000" documented Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the Latine activism that transformed the city. uncpress.org/author/12527...

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🚨New Member Alert! 🚨 MiSC is excited to announce its newest member, Llana Barber. Llana is a scholar of immigration & Latine history with a focus on the Caribbean diaspora, and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In her article, Molina reflects: "Family separations at the border, deportations that tear parents from children, and refugee policies that turn away the desperate and shatter families are echoes of a past that refuses to remain hidden."

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In 1939, the German liner St. Louis carried 900+ Jewish refugees who tried to gain entry to the U.S. The govt cited the strict quotas under the Immigration Act of 1924 & refused to admit them, despite many having family in the U.S. Most were returned to Europe, where hundreds died in the Holocaust.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The U.S. govt also had a policy of separating Native American children from their families. For nearly 150 years, they were taken from their homes & sent to boarding schools in the name of “progress.” The goal was to erase their cultural identity & assimilate them into White society. Hundreds died.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Molina recalled how, during WWII, the U.S. forcibly relocated & incarcerated over 120,000 people of Japanese descent in internment camps operated by the War Relocation Authority. Entire families were uprooted, sometimes together but often apart. More than 60% of those detained were U.S. citizens.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In her article, Molina revisits several instances that fuel her argument that policies of separation are a consistent trend in U.S. history, rather than an outlier or "transient chapter."

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

‼️Attention community‼️ MiSC has created the Sanctuary Campus Network, where the anyone can share resources, labor & strategy to protect each other & organize under the coming assaults against migrants. Please share & fill out the form to be added to the listserve. 👇👇👇 forms.gle/jHuzs975ab7m...

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“As we face yet another wave of anti-immigrant policies, we must remember: History is not just a tool for understanding the past; it’s a weapon for shaping the future,” wrote Natalia Molina. 6/7

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