Toward Border Abolition Migrant Struggles and the Law. Editors: Nicholas De Genova, Daniel I. Morales. Release Date August 11, 2026 The the publisher's description: Toward Border Abolition is an interdisciplinary exploration of border abolition that brings together scholars of international migration, border studies, and law who historicize the
Moving Beyond Worker Rights to Worker Justice by Shefali Milczarek-Desai, Texas A&M Law Review (forthcoming) Abstract Precarious workers’ on-the ground realities offer a startling truth often obscured by the jurisprudence of work—that worker justice is greatly circumscribed by and often lies beyond the reach of worker rights
A few days ago, the State Department announced a pledge of $1.8 Billion "in life-saving humanitarian funding to OCHA." Not gonna lie, the announcement initially caught my eye because I thought it was about OCAHO, the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer--despite the lack of any
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee in the New Yorker (registration required) (In Plain Sight: A girl spent sixteen years in forced servitude. How much did her neighbors know?) tells us about Djena. In January of 2019, the Guinean couple who had enslaved her at their home in an affluent Dallas suburb were convicted
Ximena Bustillo for NPR reports on today's DACA recipients: "Now, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the average age of a DACA recipient is 31; and a majority are between the ages of 31 and 44. Beneficiaries of the program have advanced
From Barriers to Abuse: Border Hardening and Torture by Gino Pauselli and Beth A. Simmons, International Organization, Forthcoming Abstract Serious human rights violations have commonly been reported in border regions and against migrants. We develop a theory of torture by persons whose job it is to secure the border from
News from the heartland. "A Minnesota county prosecutor [today] announced charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting [in January] of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s crackdown in the state." The officer is charged with second-degree assault and falsely reporting a
Pets appear to be collateral damage of the mass deportation campaign.
Photos from the edge 32 - DANCING IN DARK TIMES (posted with permission of David Bacon) David Bacon is an accomplished photographer and journalist. Check out his blog. He writes: "In many agricultural fields on the West Coast, you're more likely to hear Mixteco and Triqui spoken
In this episode of our World of Migration podcast, Migration Policy Institute Senior Policy Analyst Valerie Lacarte speaks with Cuba expert María José Espinosa Carrillo, Executive Director of the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas (CEDA), about the causes of Cuba's crisis, the dismantling of decades
Senior Managing Attorney, Detention Project Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project - Portland, Maine The Senior Managing Attorney, Detention Project is responsible for programmatic, strategic, and operational leadership for ILAP’s Detention Project. The role supervises Detention Project staff and fellows and leads a growing area of work focused on expanding access
The Trump administration is seeking to denaturalize U.S, citizens. This analysis identifies a non-obvious, unintended wrinkle to those efforts. Denaturalizations will rely on a provision of the law "allowing revocation when the citizen is convicted after naturalization of a crime that started or occurred before naturalization. Ironically, such