South America

From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration

O. Hugo Benavides of Fordham University reviews From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration by Ann Miles. Ann Miles writes on transnational migration as a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences,...

Does the United States Need to Invest More in Border Enforcement?

Despite the largest immigration enforcement budget in US history, the Border Patrol is set to apprehend the highest number of border crossers in more than a decade. This essay argues that the administration’s enforcement-only approach cannot successfully address this humanitarian crisis, and does not deserve any additional funding. Instead, the administration should respond to the conditions driving Central American and Venezuelan asylum seekers, provide protection for those fleeing violence and other impossible conditions, and create a strong, well-resourced US asylum system.

Venezuela in Crisis: the Plight of Venezuelan Refugees

While US public and media attention has been focused on Central American families fleeing violence in the Northern Triangle states, a crisis of larger proportions has been unfolding farther south. Since 2015, more than 1.6 million Venezuelans have left their...

Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics

Stefan Vogler of Northwestern University reviews Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics, by Sara L. McKinnon. Professor McKinnon exposes racialized rhetorics of violence in politics and charts the development of gender as a category in American asylum law. Starting...

Scalabrini Study Centers Release First Annual International Migration Policy Report

New York, NY – The migration study centers of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles – Scalabrinians, a Catholic community dedicated to serving refugees and migrants throughout the world, released today their first annual International Migration Policy...

International Migration Policy Report: Responsibility Sharing for Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants in Need of Protection

This inaugural report of the Scalabrini migration study centers covers responsibility-sharing for large-scale refugee and migrant populations in need. The report consists of chapters that describe the situation of refugee and migrant populations in select regions around the world and analyzes the responses of states, regional bodies and the international community.

Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism

Richard Velasquez reviews Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism, by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza. Based on the author’s interviews with 147 deportees from Guatemala, Jamaica, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic, the author connects economic restructuring, migration, race, class, and militarization...

Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race

Nadia Y. Kim of Loyola Marymount University reviews Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race, by Tiffany D. Joseph. This book fills a void in the research, providing much needed scholarship on race and return migration among first...

Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.

Kristin Skrabut of Harvard University reviews Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S., by Ulla Berg. The book combines innovative currents in migration and media studies with a deep understanding of Peruvian history to argue that...

Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People

Elliott R. Barkan, Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino, reviews Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People. The book is about the greater diversity of immigrants to the United States since 1965 and focuses on...