Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California, Stephanie L. Canizales shows that while a lu...
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants
Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention a...
By Nicole Constable, author of Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations
Since the 1990s, I have done field research in Hong Kong among Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers and activists, most of whom worked as domestic workers caring for children, the elde...
By Patrick Bixby, author of License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
Passports occupy a place in some of our most avid fantasies. They can promise travel to exotic destinations; they can provide secure passage to a new life far away; they can enable flight from the dangers...
The editorial committee of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos is pleased to announce the award for best article by an early-career scholar published in 2020-2021. The award aims to recognize contributions of the highest academic quality in the multidisciplinary field of Mexican studie...
By Ethan Blue, author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal
The possibility of expedited resettlement in the US for some of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by the ongoing Russian invasion offers an example of how the United States and other wealth...