July 26, 2023
Contact: ASA Communications Department, [email protected]
WASHINGTON, DC—A series of articles exploring issues related to immigrants and immigration authored by sociologists are available in the latest issue of Footnotes, the American Sociological Association’s online magazine. Using sociological research, authors commentary on a variety of topics, including:
- Rawan Arar, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington; and David Scott FitzGerald, Professor and Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California-San Diego, look at how refugee status has the power to provide some people with access to a territory, resources, and rights while hindering others from acquiring the same opportunities.
- Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, considers how the everyday surveillance of undocumented immigrants can mean the difference between their durable presence in the United States (via legalization) or their immediate exclusion from the country (via deportation).
- Bertha A. Bermúdez Tapia, Assistant Professor of Sociology at New Mexico State University, describes some of the effects of U.S. immigration policy and the erasure of asylum beyond the southern border, including on the emergence of migrant camps and the worsening of violence.
- Stephanie L. Canizales, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at the University of California-Merced, provides historical context and current state of Latin American child migrant labor in the U.S.
- Molly Dondero, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at American University, looks at the negative toll of social and institutional exclusion on immigrants’ health throughout the life course.
- Sunmin Kim, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College, discusses the origination of the category “Asian American,” how the term fails to recognize the heterogeneous experiences and identities, and the subsequent consequences of this failure.
- Kevin J.A. Thomas, Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Sociology and Director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas-Austin, writes about African immigration and the Black immigrant paradox—having low measures of socioeconomic well-being despite having high levels of educational attainment.
If you are interested in contacting these sociologists, please contact Preeti Vasishtha, Director of Communications, (202) 247- 9872, [email protected].
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