The national context of deportation threat, defined as the federal government's approach to
deportation and/or deportation's salience to the US public, fluctuated between 2011 and …

In this introduction to the special issue Contested Categories in the Context of International
Migration, we argue for the importance of critically engaging with state-created categories …

Extensive scholarship traces the development and impacts of the US immigration and
deportation system on Latino immigrants and US born Latinos, alike. However, relatively …

Dr Laura Beth Nielsen's compelling Presidential Address directs law and society scholars
toward a sociolegal vision rooted in “relational rights,” which she defines as concern for how …

Scholarship on surveillance and system avoidance posits that populations worried about
state punishment are less likely to engage with mainstream societal institutions whose …

This report describes how immigration advocates—people engaging in political or legal
campaigns for, and/or offering direct services and support to, immigrants—understand their …

In this paper, we provide a concise review of 20 methodological approaches to measuring
irregular migration for a non-technical audience. First, we revisit established approaches …

Injustice and identity crises still happen in American society, they are mainly for a minority of
American immigrants. The film Blue Bayou (2021) describes the unfair treatment of Korean …

Abstract System avoidance refers to the tendency of individuals who are concerned about
formal social control (eg, incarceration, immigration enforcement, or the removal of children …

This dissertation documents how US immigration policies and administrative practices
create hierarchies and inequities that directly shape immigrant conceptions of the US social …