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Migration Scholar Collaborative

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MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc

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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
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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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
This video was primarily informed by MiSC scholar Dr. Torrie Hester's work: Deportation: The Origins of U.S Policy. Please click the link below to learn more! www.pennpress.org/978151282476...
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Deportation – Penn Press
Before 1882, the U.S. federal government had never formally deported anyone, but that year an act of Congress made Chinese workers the first group of immigra...
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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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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 02/06/2026
ICE detainee says officers used force and pepper spray after summoning migrants to a meeting they called a “trick.”
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ICE Detainees on Hunger Strike Say They Were Pepper Sprayed
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Sen. Murphy: When Trump came into office, ICE's budget was $10B. ICE's budget is now 11 times that. $115B. Taxpayers entrust their money to us to spend it wisely. We swear an oath to assure that their money is not used to fund illegal behavior. Every single day ICE is violating the Constitution.
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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 · 02/05/2026
While ICE states that they are "committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments" (from statement on Gonzalez's death), 18 deaths in 4 months is no accident. No amount of bureaucratized language can hide the systemic violence against migrants.
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Cuban illegal alien, arrested for domestic violence, dies in ICE custody at Georgia detention center
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Earlier today, ICE revealed that on April 28, 2026, Denny Adan Gonzalez (a 33-year old migrant from Cuba) died while in their custody. Gonzalez becomes the 18th person to have died in ICE detainment in 2026.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
While ICE states that they provide "safe, secure, and humane environments" to "all those in custody" (from ICE press release), 18 deaths in four months is no accident. No amount of bureaucratized language should hide the systemic pattern of violence. www.ice.gov/news/release...
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Cuban illegal alien, arrested for domestic violence, dies in ICE custody at Georgia detention center
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Language matters. Transparency matters. For frequent, accessible updates on immigration news, visit MiSC scholar Austin Kocher's (@austinkocher.com) Stubstack to explore topics such as conditions in ICE containment camps and weekly highlights of immigration news. austinkocher.substack.com
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Austin Kocher | Substack
Decode the U.S. immigration system with clear analysis backed by data and designed for curious readers. Click to read Austin Kocher, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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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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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The recording of our event, Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence with Dr. Maxamed Abu-maye is now available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFz... @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @ridgs.bsky.social
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Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/04/2026
The Trump administration is continuing its attacks on DACA, the program that has given deportation relief and work permits to immigrants who came to the United States as children. The Board of Immigration Appeals recently ruled that DACA status is not enough to spare someone from deportation.
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Trump’s Justice Department Is Moving to Make It Easier to Deport DACA Recipients
Rep. Delia Ramirez speaks about the administration’s effort to “weaponize the court system” against immigrants.
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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Join us April 22 for a fascinating conversation about how international students organize and protest in the face of repression and threats. RSVP: z.umn.edu/IHRC_April22 @freedomhouse.bsky.social @nafsa-official.bsky.social @presalliance.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social
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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
As migrants attempt to cross the desert, the US government points to this pollution as reasons to deny them sanctuary. As Paik argues, the "US state deploys sanctuary for nature to deny sanctuary to migrants" (Paik, "Sanctuary for None," 76).
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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
The US government implements "prevention through deterrence" to pass off the mass murder of migrants as a simple result of environmental factors in the Sonoran Desert while obscuring US imperial policies.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The US government has also weaponized the desert's hostile terrain. While reinforcing other border-crossing locations, the US allows migrants to cross into the US through the Sonoran Desert, knowing that the extreme temperatures and aridity will kill most crossers in the process.
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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 · 14/04/2026
This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
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Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert
Abstract. This article examines migration through protected areas of the Sonoran Desert from the 1990s to 2024. During this time of accelerating globalization and transnational migration, US border po...
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Rachel Grace Newman @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Take a listen to my convo w/Amelia Frank-Vitale on her new book, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds." I learned so much from this book & Amelia's response to my questions. newbooksnetwork.com/leave-if-you...
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Kaysha Corinealdi @kcorinealdi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
It hurts that denationalization is still a reality today.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
✍️ Corinealdi shows these aren't coincidences. Racism, capitalism, militarization, and anti-immigration policy feed on silence about what came before. To document denationalization is to lift the veil. Read her full article here 👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
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Denationalization and Historical Memory: The Panamanian Case
In this text inspired from her book Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (2022), Kaysha Corinealdi retraces the five years that led to 50,000 (mostly Black)…
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
But the past isn't past. Panama is now paid millions by the US to deport migrants crossing the Darién Gap, the Dominican Republic rendered thousands of Haitian descendants stateless in 2013, and the US recently issued an executive order targeting birthright citizenship.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The history was buried for multiple reasons ⤵️ 🟠 WWII drowned it out globally 🟠 Anti-Black and anti-Asian discrimination was the hemispheric norm 🟠 Once it ended, the prevailing consensus was to call it an aberration and move on.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Afro-Panamanian lawyer Pedro N. Rhodes took the case to the Supreme Court, warning that this set a dangerous hemispheric precedent. The Court was unmoved. Until 1961, descendants of Caribbean migrants still had to prove their "Panamanianness" to claim their own citizenship.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In 1941, Panamanians voted on a constitution that promised labor protections for some while revoking citizenship for others. Article 12 stripped birthright citizenship based on Blackness, Caribbean ancestry, and speaking languages like English, French, patwa, or creole.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It didn't come out of nowhere. Decades of nativist propaganda had targeted Black Caribbean and Asian migrants as obstacles to national progress, and by 1928 nearly everyone non-white or non-European fell under Panama's "prohibited migrants" category.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Historian & MiSC scholar Kaysha Corinealdi ( @kcorinealdi.bsky.social ) asks how this happened and why it fell into oblivion. Her answer in a recent @thefunambulist.bsky.social article cuts to the heart of how we choose what to forget, when we choose to remember, and what that costs us today.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
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Denationalization and Historical Memory: The Panamanian Case
In this text inspired from her book Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (2022), Kaysha Corinealdi retraces the five years that led to 50,000 (mostly Black)…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/03/2026
“As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it."
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ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 25/03/2026
Something remarkable happened this week: a Substack post helped expose and remove the first-ever ICE 287(g) enforcement agreement with a K-12 school district in the United States. Here's what we know. 🧵
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join the IHRC and @iehs.bsky.social for a fascinating online discussion: The Founding of the US and Immigration History on March 31 at 3:30 Central. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/USandImmHistory @hidehirota.bsky.social @amandafrost.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @umnengagement.bsky.social
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026
As Predicted, ICE Reports Another Detention Death While Congress Does Nothing: 2nd This Week, 13th This Year, 42nd Under Trump austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predict...
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As Predicted, ICE Reports Another Detention Death While Congress Does Nothing: 2nd This Week, 13th This Year, 42nd Under Trump
Detention deaths occurring about once every four days. Call Rep. Scott Franklin and Glades County Sheriff's Office until we get answers, contact information available below.
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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NEW EVENT: Maxamed Abu-maye, author of the book Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence. Wed. April 8 at 5pm in person and online. z.umn.edu/IHRCApril8 @uofmhumanrights.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social
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Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence with Maxamed Abu-maye
Maxamed Abu-maye is the author of the book Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence (University of California Press, 2025). This multi-sited project...
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🚨 Since July 2025, federal agents have shot 16 people. No criminal charges. Limited public information. Cases quietly fading from the news. Rather than a coincidence, these events reflect a deep-set pattern. 🧵👇 www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/t...
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The Philip Brown Case Tells Us What to Expect After Federal Agents Shoot Someone
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot at Phillip Brown’s car in Washington, D.C., last fall, the outcome offered a revealing lesson about
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
@elliottyoung.bsky.social @karl-jacoby.bsky.social @tinashull.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @kangborderlaw.bsky.social @carlygoodman.bsky.social @austinkocher.com @prof-nataliam.bsky.social @latinohistory.bsky.social @ithacamcg.bsky.social @wmack3212.bsky.social @kcorinealdi.bsky.social
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Golash-Boza calls on cities to demand footage release, agent identification, & written transparency agreements for joint federal operations. We know what federal impunity looks like. This piece makes sure we can't pretend otherwise. 🔗 Read it in full ⤵️ www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/t...
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The Philip Brown Case Tells Us What to Expect After Federal Agents Shoot Someone
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot at Phillip Brown’s car in Washington, D.C., last fall, the outcome offered a revealing lesson about
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is exactly the kind of work MiSC exists to support. It connects rigorous scholarship to the most urgent social justice questions of our moment. Golash-Boza has spent years documenting how immigration enforcement harms communities, and this piece shows why that work is more critical than ever.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
⚖️ ICE, CBP, and HSI agents operate on city streets while ignoring the transparency rules that cities have fought hard to impose on local police. They answer to different supervisors, different policies, and different political incentives.
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