Publications

Juan Antonio del Monte and Robert McKee Irwin recently had their paper "Migrant autonomy and wilfulness amidst the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic at the Tijuana border" published in two journals. The research focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on the lives of immigrants who desire to cross the US-Mexico border. 

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A brief co-authored by GMC Executive Committee member Caitlin Patler on the conditions of immigrant detention facilities and their status as a hotbed for COVID-19 transmission was recently published by the Harvard Immigration Initiative as part of their Issue Brief Series. 

The paper "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries", co-authored by Santiago Perez, which finds that the children of immigrants have much higher rates of upward mobility than their U.S.-born counterparts was published in the American Economic Review. The paper was also featured by the American Economic Association in their most recent Chart of the Week series. 

GMC Affiliate Raquel Aldana's essay discusses the potential solutions to the migration challenges of Central America's Northern Triangle that can be easily undertaken by the Biden Administration.

A paper by Caitlin Patler, Erin Hamilton, and Robin Savinar on the impacts of DACA on the mental health of Latino/a immigrant youth was featured as part of National Affairs' daily research roundup. 

Read the full roundup here. 

A new Migrant Narrative by Linn Normand, Ellen Opsal, and Ali Doriani features the story of Ali Doriani, an Iranian cartoonist who was forced into mandatory detention as a result of Australia's immigration policies, highlighting the need for reform. 

Read the full Migrant Narrative here.

A new Migrant Narrative by Graduate Student Affiliate Lizbeth de la Cruz and Robert Irwin uses the stories of two victims of deportation to shed light on the issues of migration law on childhood arrivals. The criminalization of undocumented youth through racial profiling and other structural issues often leads to deportation, placing victims in an unfamiliar country away from the life they've built.

Read here.

Humanizando la Deportación(Humanizing Deportation), a multi-media project by GMC Deputy Director Robert Irwin, is cosponsor of the publication of Caravaneros, a testimonial dramatization of the voyage of the migrant caravan of fall 2018 from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to the US-Mexico border city of Tijuana by Honduran refugee Douglas Oviedo, who obtained political asylum in the United States last year. The book features an introduction, "La historia insólita de la caravana migrante de 2018 y del hondureño Douglas Oviedo," by Robert McKee Irwin and Aída Silva.

Executive Committee member Caitlin Patler and UCI PhD candidate Gabriela Gonzalez published a new paper, "The Educational Consequences of Parental Immigration Detention", in Sociological Perspectives demonstrating the deleterious educational consequences of parental immigration detention. The paper is based on 104 multigenerational and multi-perspective interviews with detained immigrants, their spouses, and the young children they share.

Read the paper here.

A new publication on the Humanizing Deportation project by Robert Irwin was recently published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Latin American History. The publication focuses on the origins and execution of the project itself: the largest qualitative archive of its kind on the topic of deportation and its effects on migrant communities.

Read here.