Alejandra Díaz de León
@adlcp.bsky.social
Lecturer at the Sociology and Criminology Dept at the University of Essex. Author of Walking Together: Central Americans and Transit Migration through Mexico (2023). Ethnographer. Social ties, solidarity, trust, the climate crisis, and migration.
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ICE arrests in Kentucky are up nearly 40% this year, driven in part by financial incentives and expanding 287(g) agreements. Over 70% of those arrested had no criminal conviction.
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Driven by financial incentives, Kentucky ICE arrests ramp up
Yet, more than 70% of those arrested had no criminal conviction.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ICE arrests in Kentucky are up nearly 40% this year, driven in part by financial incentives and expanding 287(g) agreements. Over 70% of those arrested had no criminal conviction.
@forwardky.bsky.social
Read about it here: www.forwardky.com/driven-by-fi...
@forwardky.bsky.social
Read about it here: www.forwardky.com/driven-by-fi...
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Excellent article @nandosigona.bsky.social
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Excellent article @nandosigona.bsky.social
Every year, Aiko Ikemura Amaral and I teach a 4 hour workshop on how to do fieldwork in Latin America at the University of Cambridge. Today's feedback: "The session was very useful and so engaging--you are also both hilarious (does your academic schedule leave space for doing stand-up?)...
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Every year, Aiko Ikemura Amaral and I teach a 4 hour workshop on how to do fieldwork in Latin America at the University of Cambridge. Today's feedback: "The session was very useful and so engaging--you are also both hilarious (does your academic schedule leave space for doing stand-up?)...
Congratulations!!!
And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..
Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt
for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"
#AkadSoz25 #sociology
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Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt
for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"
#AkadSoz25 #sociology
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November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Congratulations!!!
Today I taught a seminar where we discussed the concept of climate mobilities (suggested by Ingrid Boas et al) and how it helps us see the many different reactions and resistances to the effects of the climate crisis from the perspective of the communities. It ties well with our research in Mexico.
October 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Today I taught a seminar where we discussed the concept of climate mobilities (suggested by Ingrid Boas et al) and how it helps us see the many different reactions and resistances to the effects of the climate crisis from the perspective of the communities. It ties well with our research in Mexico.
Reposted by Alejandra Díaz de León
**Please mark your calendar:
Lucy Mayblin will be giving a virtual talk hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through its Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster.
17 November, 12:00-1:30pm EST. See link for information on how to register: lnkd.in/gAr3B5_k
Lucy Mayblin will be giving a virtual talk hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through its Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster.
17 November, 12:00-1:30pm EST. See link for information on how to register: lnkd.in/gAr3B5_k
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
**Please mark your calendar:
Lucy Mayblin will be giving a virtual talk hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through its Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster.
17 November, 12:00-1:30pm EST. See link for information on how to register: lnkd.in/gAr3B5_k
Lucy Mayblin will be giving a virtual talk hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through its Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster.
17 November, 12:00-1:30pm EST. See link for information on how to register: lnkd.in/gAr3B5_k
Uuuu this looks great!!
Two year postdoc at @universityofessex.bsky.social to work with my amazing colleague (see below) on her ERC project "Applied stereotypes, social networks and self-fulfilling prophecies: How stereotypes reinforce social inequalities" Closing date 28.09.2025
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Uuuu this looks great!!