David Trouille
@dtrouille.bsky.social
Sociologist @JMU
Writing a book on temporary agricultural labor.
www.davidtrouille.com
Writing a book on temporary agricultural labor.
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Just got the cover art from the press! Dropping in March 2026!
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just got the cover art from the press! Dropping in March 2026!
“It just shows how uninformed and out of touch some of these officials are with what food production looks like in this country.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California farmers say Medicaid recipients, automation can’t replace their immigrant workers
As the Trump administration has carried out mass deportations, leaders have flip-flopped on whether to exempt some industries, including agriculture, from raids.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“It just shows how uninformed and out of touch some of these officials are with what food production looks like in this country.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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By the Power Vested in Me is here!
Through the story of the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States and France, this book sheds new light on the contested power of experts to influence high-stakes democratic debates.
Get your copy wherever books are sold or here: tinyurl.com/37t88xme
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Through the story of the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States and France, this book sheds new light on the contested power of experts to influence high-stakes democratic debates.
Get your copy wherever books are sold or here: tinyurl.com/37t88xme
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By the Power Vested in Me | Columbia University Press
In both the United States and France, each side of the legal battle over same-sex marriage and parenthood relied heavily on experts. Despite the similarity o... | CUP
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May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
By the Power Vested in Me is here!
Through the story of the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States and France, this book sheds new light on the contested power of experts to influence high-stakes democratic debates.
Get your copy wherever books are sold or here: tinyurl.com/37t88xme
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Through the story of the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States and France, this book sheds new light on the contested power of experts to influence high-stakes democratic debates.
Get your copy wherever books are sold or here: tinyurl.com/37t88xme
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Join the ASA International Migration section on Jan. 31, 2025 at 12:00 PST/3:00 EST for a online panel discussion: "Seeing Like a Hiring Committee." Register at: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
@asanews.bsky.social
@asanews.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Join the ASA International Migration section on Jan. 31, 2025 at 12:00 PST/3:00 EST for a online panel discussion: "Seeing Like a Hiring Committee." Register at: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
@asanews.bsky.social
@asanews.bsky.social
Virtual talk at the Wilson Center (1/30):
US Farm Labor and H-2A Visas: The Road Ahead
mexicoelections.wilsoncenter.org/event/us-far...
US Farm Labor and H-2A Visas: The Road Ahead
mexicoelections.wilsoncenter.org/event/us-far...
US Farm Labor and H-2A Visas: The Road Ahead
mexicoelections.wilsoncenter.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Virtual talk at the Wilson Center (1/30):
US Farm Labor and H-2A Visas: The Road Ahead
mexicoelections.wilsoncenter.org/event/us-far...
US Farm Labor and H-2A Visas: The Road Ahead
mexicoelections.wilsoncenter.org/event/us-far...
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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
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Jesús has been an apple harvester for 18 years in Wapsto, WA. He shares, "we currently are picking the last harvest. With the cold wet weather it is very tiring and dangerous to climb up high picking apples and carrying a heavy bag for 8 hours a day." #WeFeedYou
December 31, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Jesús has been an apple harvester for 18 years in Wapsto, WA. He shares, "we currently are picking the last harvest. With the cold wet weather it is very tiring and dangerous to climb up high picking apples and carrying a heavy bag for 8 hours a day." #WeFeedYou
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Elated to share that the dream team @stephcanizales.bsky.social, @drmirianma.bsky.social, Silvia Rodriguez Vega and I are getting ~$1.6 million from UCOP MRPI for our project Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures. Stay tuned for seed grants to CA scholars, artists, and activists!
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December 18, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Elated to share that the dream team @stephcanizales.bsky.social, @drmirianma.bsky.social, Silvia Rodriguez Vega and I are getting ~$1.6 million from UCOP MRPI for our project Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures. Stay tuned for seed grants to CA scholars, artists, and activists!
This isn't the contradiction they suggest. For Trump, guest workers are "perfect immigrants" undergirding his nativist, restrictionist agenda.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/p...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/p...
Trump vows to ‘hire American.’ His businesses keep hiring foreign guest workers | CNN Politics
Trump’s businesses, including the Mar-a-Lago Club and a Virginia winery, have collectively increased their reliance on temporary foreign laborers over the years.
www.cnn.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:11 PM
This isn't the contradiction they suggest. For Trump, guest workers are "perfect immigrants" undergirding his nativist, restrictionist agenda.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/p...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/p...
Pleased to see my students explore the individual experiences of migration we examined more broadly this semester in the fifth installment of the “Immigrant Stories Project.”
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Fall 2024 Interviews | Immigrant Stories Project
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December 13, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Pleased to see my students explore the individual experiences of migration we examined more broadly this semester in the fifth installment of the “Immigrant Stories Project.”
sites.lib.jmu.edu/immigrantsto...
sites.lib.jmu.edu/immigrantsto...
Yes, great podcast! Michael DeLand and I have a forthcoming book chapter on pickup sports and social infrastructure making a similar case to "slow down and connect."
Great podcast with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social and Kellie Carter Jackson on the importance of physical spaces for community www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Best of 'How To': The Infrastructure of Community
Physical spaces can either encourage or discourage relationships. But people also have to be willing to slow down and connect.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Yes, great podcast! Michael DeLand and I have a forthcoming book chapter on pickup sports and social infrastructure making a similar case to "slow down and connect."
Here in the U.S., “legalizing” illegal immigrants by making them guest workers would continue a dishonorable tradition. Americans should not be fooled if Trump announces it as a “beautiful” solution to illegal immigration. - Mae Ngai
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A New Bracero Program Is Not the Solution
An Eisenhower-era initiative holds key lessons for Trump’s immigration policy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Here in the U.S., “legalizing” illegal immigrants by making them guest workers would continue a dishonorable tradition. Americans should not be fooled if Trump announces it as a “beautiful” solution to illegal immigration. - Mae Ngai
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Fascinating, troubling read on "free economic zones."
"While the rich get to pass through the hidden globe liberated and undisturbed, these domains outside the jurisdiction of one state or another can also become zones of unfreedom."
www.transcend.org/tms/2024/12/...
"While the rich get to pass through the hidden globe liberated and undisturbed, these domains outside the jurisdiction of one state or another can also become zones of unfreedom."
www.transcend.org/tms/2024/12/...
Duty Free: Life and Luxury beyond the Nation-State
What globalization has come to look like for the rich. ...
www.transcend.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Fascinating, troubling read on "free economic zones."
"While the rich get to pass through the hidden globe liberated and undisturbed, these domains outside the jurisdiction of one state or another can also become zones of unfreedom."
www.transcend.org/tms/2024/12/...
"While the rich get to pass through the hidden globe liberated and undisturbed, these domains outside the jurisdiction of one state or another can also become zones of unfreedom."
www.transcend.org/tms/2024/12/...
A good piece to end my intro sociology course, which has probably overlooked the “luxuries” of human interaction.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...
Opinion | Nurses, Chaplains and Teachers Should Not Be Replaced With Technology
We’re increasingly becoming a society in which very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:17 PM
A good piece to end my intro sociology course, which has probably overlooked the “luxuries” of human interaction.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...
That seems roughly the market share of Chinese EVs I’ve observed in Costa Rica.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
China’s share of global electric car market rises to 76%
Market share increases after strong demand within country offsets risks from western tariffs on Chinese-made EVs
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:46 PM
That seems roughly the market share of Chinese EVs I’ve observed in Costa Rica.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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On #GivingTuesday, there’s no better time to make a difference for the men and women who feed this country. We’re grateful for each of our many friends, and all you do on behalf of farm workers. ufw.org/givingtuesda... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufw... #WeFeedYou
December 3, 2024 at 12:59 AM
On #GivingTuesday, there’s no better time to make a difference for the men and women who feed this country. We’re grateful for each of our many friends, and all you do on behalf of farm workers. ufw.org/givingtuesda... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufw... #WeFeedYou
A wonderful immigrant-owned Spanish language preschool is relocating to an old ICE detention facility in my rural Virginia hometown. This would be poetic justice if they hadn’t moved across the street to a bigger building. Worried for our migrant community but inspired by their responses.
December 2, 2024 at 12:32 PM
A wonderful immigrant-owned Spanish language preschool is relocating to an old ICE detention facility in my rural Virginia hometown. This would be poetic justice if they hadn’t moved across the street to a bigger building. Worried for our migrant community but inspired by their responses.
So happy to learn that Laura Orrico's book on the precarious workers of Venice Beach is forthcoming:
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Making Precarity Work
Shows how the precarious workers of Venice Beach—without help from the government—work together to create a safety net for themselves. In Making Precarity Work, sociologist Laura A. Orrico shows how...
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November 30, 2024 at 2:56 PM
So happy to learn that Laura Orrico's book on the precarious workers of Venice Beach is forthcoming:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Rebuilding here. Writing a book on temporary agricultural labor. Hi!
November 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Rebuilding here. Writing a book on temporary agricultural labor. Hi!