By Sarah Hupp Williamson, author of Criminology Explains Human TraffickingJuly 30th is the UN-recognized World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, while January 11th is the US-recognized National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Both days center on bringing attention and education to the public abou...
This post was originally published on the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) blog and is reposted here with permission.
By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson authors of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power
Low-wage labor in the United S...
by Lynn Stephen and Laura Velasco-Ortiz, guest editors of the special issue
In a special issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, called “Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States,” we look at how Indigenous people from Mesoamerica move in modern times. ...
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 Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film
Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, many have addressed issues of drug trafficking and cartels as well...
UC Press is pleased to announce that Departures in Critical Qualitative Research’s editor Devika Chawla’s inaugural double special issue, Migrations/Borders and Margins, has been selected as the winner of the National Communication Association’s 2019 Ethnography Division Best Special ...
This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 10-13. #ASA19
By Abigail Leslie Andrews, author of Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants
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