TheImmigrationLab
@theimmigrationlab.bsky.social
Social science research collaborative on all things immigration. Directed by @drernestocast.bsky.social and based at American University, Washington, DC
www.immigrationlab.org
www.immigrationlab.org
🚨 NOW OPEN: Spring 2025 Applications! 🚨
The Immigration Lab is recruiting more Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers
📅 Priority Deadline: January 1st
🌎 Multilingual applicants encouraged to apply
Learn more & apply here 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/cdzetoayly
The Immigration Lab is recruiting more Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers
📅 Priority Deadline: January 1st
🌎 Multilingual applicants encouraged to apply
Learn more & apply here 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/cdzetoayly
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨 NOW OPEN: Spring 2025 Applications! 🚨
The Immigration Lab is recruiting more Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers
📅 Priority Deadline: January 1st
🌎 Multilingual applicants encouraged to apply
Learn more & apply here 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/cdzetoayly
The Immigration Lab is recruiting more Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers
📅 Priority Deadline: January 1st
🌎 Multilingual applicants encouraged to apply
Learn more & apply here 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/cdzetoayly
Read more about the Safe Third Country Agreement (Tercer País Seguro) at https://www.dw.com/es/acuerdo-migratorio-con-ee-uu-podría-ser-positivo-para-belice/a-74478665
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Read more about the Safe Third Country Agreement (Tercer País Seguro) at https://www.dw.com/es/acuerdo-migratorio-con-ee-uu-podría-ser-positivo-para-belice/a-74478665
Our Dia de los Muertos Event was a success! Thank you for joining us as we learned about the holiday and its many traditions, while enjoying churros and Abuelita hot chocolate. Another thank you to those who shared their stories on our ofrenda 🧡🌼
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Our Dia de los Muertos Event was a success! Thank you for joining us as we learned about the holiday and its many traditions, while enjoying churros and Abuelita hot chocolate. Another thank you to those who shared their stories on our ofrenda 🧡🌼
Applications for the Spring semester sessioin are open! Visit https://f.mtr.cool/usgairlbmg to apply before January 1st.
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Applications for the Spring semester sessioin are open! Visit https://f.mtr.cool/usgairlbmg to apply before January 1st.
Come join us at the Public Anthropology Conference where we will present our findings from the Immigration DMV project!
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Come join us at the Public Anthropology Conference where we will present our findings from the Immigration DMV project!
Thank you to all who joined Ernesto Castañeda's talk to better "Understand Immigration Realities;" Let’s keep the conversation going on International Migration!
Be on the lookout for a recording of the talk out soon on our podcast: "Immigration Realities."
Be on the lookout for a recording of the talk out soon on our podcast: "Immigration Realities."
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thank you to all who joined Ernesto Castañeda's talk to better "Understand Immigration Realities;" Let’s keep the conversation going on International Migration!
Be on the lookout for a recording of the talk out soon on our podcast: "Immigration Realities."
Be on the lookout for a recording of the talk out soon on our podcast: "Immigration Realities."
We have written many reports on the economic contributions of immigrants. Sometimes we get valid criticism about reducing people to their labor. Interestingly many of the immigrants we have been interviewing in NYC & DC say that themselves in their effort to show they matter, hear Marshall Plane.
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We have written many reports on the economic contributions of immigrants. Sometimes we get valid criticism about reducing people to their labor. Interestingly many of the immigrants we have been interviewing in NYC & DC say that themselves in their effort to show they matter, hear Marshall Plane.
Talk by Mexican Anthropologist and CLALS Research Fellow Federico Besserer. September 17, 2025. American University, Washington, DC.
September 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Talk by Mexican Anthropologist and CLALS Research Fellow Federico Besserer. September 17, 2025. American University, Washington, DC.
Talk by Mexican Anthropologist and CLALS Research Fellow Federico Besserer. September 17, 2025. American University, Washington, DC.
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Talk by Mexican Anthropologist and CLALS Research Fellow Federico Besserer. September 17, 2025. American University, Washington, DC.
For Afghan migrants in the US, acculturation is more than learning a new language and celebrating their traditions. It is also about navigating legal precarity and confronting exclusion, while holding hope. Read more here: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For Afghan migrants in the US, acculturation is more than learning a new language and celebrating their traditions. It is also about navigating legal precarity and confronting exclusion, while holding hope. Read more here: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/what-does-it-mean-to-belong
The current administration is copying the authoritarian playbook by using the language of security to justify power grabs. Regimes built on this basis always become far more dangerous than the real or fabricated threats they promise to quash. https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/faustian-bargain
September 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The current administration is copying the authoritarian playbook by using the language of security to justify power grabs. Regimes built on this basis always become far more dangerous than the real or fabricated threats they promise to quash. https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/faustian-bargain
We ask whether someone’s movement is legal or illegal, allowed or forbidden. We debate thresholds and quotas, risks and threats. Rarely do we ask the more human question: Does a person have the right to move freely?
Read more here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/the-first-freedom
Read more here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/the-first-freedom
September 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We ask whether someone’s movement is legal or illegal, allowed or forbidden. We debate thresholds and quotas, risks and threats. Rarely do we ask the more human question: Does a person have the right to move freely?
Read more here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/the-first-freedom
Read more here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/the-first-freedom
🚨NOW OPEN: Fall 2025 Applications!🚨
The Immigration Lab is looking for passionate Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers to join our team.
Apply here 👉 theimmigrationlab.org/join-us
The Immigration Lab is looking for passionate Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers to join our team.
Apply here 👉 theimmigrationlab.org/join-us
August 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🚨NOW OPEN: Fall 2025 Applications!🚨
The Immigration Lab is looking for passionate Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers to join our team.
Apply here 👉 theimmigrationlab.org/join-us
The Immigration Lab is looking for passionate Research Interns, Digital Communications & Events Interns, and Volunteers to join our team.
Apply here 👉 theimmigrationlab.org/join-us
Immigration policy in the U.S. has always been about deciding who belongs. From Chinese exclusion to Alligator Alcatraz, the U.S. holds a long legacy of racial discrimination against immigrants.
Read here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/alligator-alcatraz-one-camp-two-camp-red-camp-blue-camp
Read here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/alligator-alcatraz-one-camp-two-camp-red-camp-blue-camp
August 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Immigration policy in the U.S. has always been about deciding who belongs. From Chinese exclusion to Alligator Alcatraz, the U.S. holds a long legacy of racial discrimination against immigrants.
Read here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/alligator-alcatraz-one-camp-two-camp-red-camp-blue-camp
Read here:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/alligator-alcatraz-one-camp-two-camp-red-camp-blue-camp
Deep in the Florida Everglades, Alligator Alcatraz—a new ICE detention center—was built to cage thousands of migrants in scorching, unsanitary, and ecologically fragile conditions.
Read more on our new blog:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/%E2%80%9Cno-es-miedo-es-terror%E2%80%9D
Read more on our new blog:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/%E2%80%9Cno-es-miedo-es-terror%E2%80%9D
August 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Deep in the Florida Everglades, Alligator Alcatraz—a new ICE detention center—was built to cage thousands of migrants in scorching, unsanitary, and ecologically fragile conditions.
Read more on our new blog:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/%E2%80%9Cno-es-miedo-es-terror%E2%80%9D
Read more on our new blog:
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/%E2%80%9Cno-es-miedo-es-terror%E2%80%9D
Fleeing hunger, corruption & violence, Venezuelans seek safety—only to face new barriers in the U.S. Firsthand accounts from D.C.-area migrants reveal how U.S. immigration policy continues to fail those most in need. More here: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/fleeing-collapse-facing-barriers
August 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Fleeing hunger, corruption & violence, Venezuelans seek safety—only to face new barriers in the U.S. Firsthand accounts from D.C.-area migrants reveal how U.S. immigration policy continues to fail those most in need. More here: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/fleeing-collapse-facing-barriers
Expats in Mexico City, despite recent protests, All Immigration is Good for Cities read this blog to see why: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immigration-is-good-for-cities
July 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Expats in Mexico City, despite recent protests, All Immigration is Good for Cities read this blog to see why: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immigration-is-good-for-cities
Expats in Mexico City, despite recent protests, All Immigration is Good for Cities read this blog to see why: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immigration-is-good-for-cities
July 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Expats in Mexico City, despite recent protests, All Immigration is Good for Cities read this blog to see why: https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immigration-is-good-for-cities
The U.S. often uses costly, unsafe private immigrant detention centers driven by ICE crackdowns and anti-immigrant sentiment. This system results in more arrests, more private detention centers, and more profit for private executives. Read more on our blog
https://f.mtr.cool/khwjconpze
https://f.mtr.cool/khwjconpze
July 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The U.S. often uses costly, unsafe private immigrant detention centers driven by ICE crackdowns and anti-immigrant sentiment. This system results in more arrests, more private detention centers, and more profit for private executives. Read more on our blog
https://f.mtr.cool/khwjconpze
https://f.mtr.cool/khwjconpze
In 100 days, Trump has done much on immigration policy, mainly via Executive Order, pushing legal boundaries. Courts have called for due process & the inadequate use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Border encounters are very low, partly due to Mexico, Biden's limits on asylum & who was migrating.
May 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In 100 days, Trump has done much on immigration policy, mainly via Executive Order, pushing legal boundaries. Courts have called for due process & the inadequate use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Border encounters are very low, partly due to Mexico, Biden's limits on asylum & who was migrating.
Check out this blog post by Reilly Phelan: "Where Does Refugee Resettlement Stand?"
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/where-does-refugee-resettlement-stand
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/where-does-refugee-resettlement-stand
April 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Check out this blog post by Reilly Phelan: "Where Does Refugee Resettlement Stand?"
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/where-does-refugee-resettlement-stand
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/where-does-refugee-resettlement-stand
📖 Check out this blog post by Noah Green: "Outcastes: How Caste Travels Across Borders: Dalits, Discrimination, and Disproportionate Migration"
April 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📖 Check out this blog post by Noah Green: "Outcastes: How Caste Travels Across Borders: Dalits, Discrimination, and Disproportionate Migration"
📖 Check out this blog post by Caryalyn Jean: “Constitutional Crisis: Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies Put Us All in Danger"
April 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📖 Check out this blog post by Caryalyn Jean: “Constitutional Crisis: Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies Put Us All in Danger"
📖 Check out this blog post by Marshall Plane and Erica Criollo: “Why Have Hundreds of Thousands Fled Ecuador Since 2020?”
April 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📖 Check out this blog post by Marshall Plane and Erica Criollo: “Why Have Hundreds of Thousands Fled Ecuador Since 2020?”
📖 Check out this insightful blog post by Sophie Robinson: “Marginalizing Multilingualism: The Impact of Trump’s Order Establishing English as the Official Language of the United States.”
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April 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
📖 Check out this insightful blog post by Sophie Robinson: “Marginalizing Multilingualism: The Impact of Trump’s Order Establishing English as the Official Language of the United States.”
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