By Víctor Zúñiga, co-author of The 0.5 Generation: Children Moving from the United States to MexicoOur research on children migrating from the United States to Mexico began 25 years ago in the state of Georgia. There, we were observing the integration of Mexican-origin families and their childre
By Rebecca Sharpless, author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE AirMy new book Shackled recounts the harrowing real-life experiences of 92 individuals abused during a failed deportation flight to Somalia. Through the eyes of Sa’id Janale and Abdulahi Hassan, the book exposes the grim rea
By Ethan Blue, author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced RemovalThe 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 wealthy nations m
By Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and RepatriatesOn World Refugee Day, the UNHCR estimates that there are over 25 million refugees around the world. Although the United States has always accepted refugees selectively based on its political prioritie
Understanding the history and motives for the United States's deeply embedded, systematic, and institutionalized racism against minorities and immigrants, and the acts of brutal violence that have ensued over and over again, can be aided by the research UC Press has published in the list compiled be