Since the late 1970s, the term “colonias”(in English) has described low‐income, peri‐urban,
and rural subdivisions north of the US‐Mexico border. These communities are in arid and …

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the social history of anthropology in the
United States, examining the circumstances that gave rise to the discipline and illuminating …

Over the last 3 decades, while ethnography has arguably become a popular and legitimate
method to study geopolitics among geographers, anthropologists have increasingly turned …

Expanding urbanization in highly fragile desert environments requires a thorough
understanding of the current state and trends of land uses to achieve an optimal balance …

This special issue develops brokerage as a historically specific category of practice to
investigate its intricate link in shaping and sustaining Asian migration infrastructures. To …

In this article, we trace shifting representations of a US-Mexico border region in national
mainstream news media during the rise of Donald Trump. We argue that the border is an …

The “processual turn” in the study of borders has opened up to the analysis of how borders
and border regimes, conceived of as social practices, are created/recreated in many ways …

Based on an ethnographic study of a pre-engineering freshman course at a large university
on the US-Mexico border, I explore how 4 Latinx undergraduate students, 2 of whom …

Community mapping projects have been studied as important contributions to the field of
environmental justice and Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS). As …

Recent changes in the sociopolitical US landscape calls for the examination of the level of
quantitative misperception about undocumented immigration and its connection with …